George J. Annas, J.D., M.P.H.

Edward R. Utley Professor and Chair, Health Law Department Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health

George Annas is the author or editor of a dozen books on health law and ethics, including American Bioethics: Crossing Human Rights and Health Law Boundaries, The Rights of Patients, Judging Medicine, Standard of Care, and Some Choice, and writes the "legal issues in medicine" feature in the New England Journal of Medicine. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a member of the Institute of Medicine, cochair of the American Bar Association's Committee on Medical Practice and Medical Research (Science and Technology Section), and an honorary fellow of the American College of Legal Medicine. Professor Annas has held a variety of regulatory positions including Vice-Chair of the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine and Chair of the Massachusetts Organ Transplant Task Force.

Michael A. Grodin, M.D.

Director of Law, Medicine, and Ethics Program and Professor of Health Law, Psychiatry, and Socio-Medical Sciences and Community Medicine Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health

Michael Grodin is the Medical Ethicist at Boston Medical Center, and for thirteen years served as the Human Studies Chairman for the Department of Health and Hospitals of the City of Boston. Professor Grodin is a consultant to the National Human Subjects Protection Review Panel of the National Institutes of Health AIDS Program Advisory Committee, and is a consultant on Ethics and Research with Human Subjects for the International Organizations of Medical Sciences and the World Health Organization. He is the Co-Director of the Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights and he has received a special citation form the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in recognition of his "profound contributions–through original and creative research to the cause of Holocaust education and remembrance." Dr. Grodin has received a Humanism in Medicine Award for "compassion and empathy in the delivery of care to patients and their families." He has delivered several hundred national and international addresses, written more than one hundred and fifty scholarly papers, and edited or co-edited four books: The Nazi Doctors and the Nuremberg Code: Human Rights in Human Experimentation, Children as Research Subjects, Meta-Medical Ethics: The Philosophical Foundations of Bioethics, and Health and Human Rights. Professor Grodin is presently working on a new book entitled, Mad, Bad or Evil: Physician Involvement in Human Rights Abuses from Nazi Germany to the Former Yugoslavia.