Info on Jonathan Mareno

From: Hal Finney (hal@finney.org)
Date: Tue Jul 09 2002 - 15:25:09 MDT


This info is from
http://www.virginia.edu/~bioethic/faculty.htm.

Sorry about the glitch characters, they are an artifact of my cut/paste
and I don't have time to remove them onw.

Hal

Jonathan D. Moreno, Ph.D.  is Emily Davie and Joseph S. Kornfeld
Professor of Biomedical Ethics at the University of Virginia, where he
directs the Center for Biomedical Ethics. 

Moreno is also Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics
at Georgetown University, a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine,
and an Adjunct Associate of the Hastings Center. 

Moreno was born on June 11, 1952 in Poughkeepsie, New York.  He
grew up  and was educated in public schools in the Hudson Valley and
graduated from  Hofstra University in Hempstead, NewYork in 1973, with
highest honors in  philosophy and psychology.  He was a University
Fellow at Washington  University in St. Louis, receiving his doctorate
in philosophy in 1977,  and was later a Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow
in cooperation with the Aspen  Institute for Humanistic Studies. 
In 1998 he received an Doctorate of  Humane Letters from Hofstra,
honoris causa. 

 Moreno has held held full-time faculty appointments in philosophy
departments at Swarthmore College, the University of Texas at Austin,
and George Washington University in Washington. D.C.  In 1984-85 he
worked on the staff of the Hastings Center, returning to George Washington
University with a joint appointment in philosophy and medicine, during 
which time he was also philosopher-in-residence at Children's National
Medical Center. 

 In 1989 Moreno was invited to establish and direct a Division of
Humanities in Medicine at the State University of New York Health
Science Center at Brooklyn, where he was Professor of Pediatrics and
of Medicine. He left SUNY in 1998 to assume his current position at the
University of Virginia.  During 1995-1997 he was also a Faculty Associate
of the Center  for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, directing
its project on Human Research Ethics.   In 1998 he was a Special Expert
in the Department of Clinical Bioethics at the Warren Magnuson Clinical
Center of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. 

 Moreno has served as senior staff for two presidential commissions. 
During 1994-95 he was Senior Policy and Research Analyst for the
Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments.  He has also been
Senior Consultant to the National Bioethics Advisory Commission..  He
has advised the New York State Health Commissioner, and has served as
a  consultant to the National Institutes of Health, the Institute of
Medicine (National Academy of Sciences), the United States Department
of Energy, the United States Department of Education, the New York
State AIDS Institute, the American Association of Blood Banks, and the
American Society of Therapeutic Radiation Oncology.  He has testifed
before the  United States House of Representatives and has lectured in
Germany, Italy, Sweden, Hungary and Argentina. 

 Among Moreno's books are Deciding Together: Bioethics and Moral
Consensus (Oxford University Press, 1995), Ethics in Clinical Practice
(Little, Brown and Co., 1994; Apen Publishers, 1999), and Arguing
Euthanasia (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 1995; Japanese edition, Mita
Industries, Ltd., 1997).Undue Risk: Secret State Experiments on Humans 
from the Second World War to the Gulf War and Beyond (W.H.Freeman),
will be appear in fall 1999.  Moreno has published around 150 papers
and book chapters, and is a member of the editorial boards of Bioethics,
The Journal of Clinical Ethics, The HEC (Health Care Ethics Committee)
Forum, and Accountability in Research.   



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