FAB Advisory Board Members, Officers, and Other Appointments for 2010-2012
(Precise dates: July 27, 2010 to end of FAB biannual meeting 2012)Co-Chairs of FAB Advisory Board
Carolyn Ells (Canada)
Co-coordinator
Associate Professor of Medicine and Member of the Biomedical Ethics Unit, McGill University; Ethicist, Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital; and Associate Researcher, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research. Her research contributes to efforts that shape and support ethical processes and policies in hospitals and other healthcare delivery organizations. Sub-themes include autonomy and chronic impairment, the therapeutic relationship, research ethics review processes, and feminist ethical theory.
Jackie Leach Scully (UK/Germany)
Co-coordinator
Reader in Social Ethics and Bioethics, and Director of Research at the Policy, Ethics and Life Sciences Research Centre, School of Geography, Politics, and Sociology, Newcastle University, UK. This is her second term as co-coordinator for FAB. She received her PhD in molecular pathology from Cambridge University in 1989, and was a research fellow in Switzerland before founding the Unit for Bioethics at the University of Basel, Switzerland in 1997. Her research interests include the construction of moral understandings, reproductive and genetic technologies, bioethics and the body, ethics of war and conflicts, psychoanalytic theory, and disability.
Elected FAB Advisory Board Members
Anne Donchin (USA)
Board Member
Emerita Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at Indiana University, Indianapolis and Associate Editor of Bioethics. A founding mother and co-coordinator of FAB, her research focuses on the intersection of bioethics and feminist philosophy including personal autonomy, gender, and chronic illness; the need for a more pragmatically oriented formulation of bioethical theory; the moral significance of innovative reproductive and genetic practices; and feminist bioethics and human rights. She is currently completing a manuscript titled: Procreation, Power, and Personal Autonomy: A Feminist Critique.
Lisa Eckenwiler (USA)
Board Member
Director of Health Care Ethics Center for Health Policy Research and Ethics, George Mason University. Websites: http://philosophy.gmu.edu, http://www.gmu.edu/departments/chpre
Anna Gotlib (USA)
Board Member
Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Binghamton University (SUNY). She received her J.D. at Cornell Law School, and her Ph.D. in philosophy at Michigan State University. Since 2009, she has been the director of the Pell Honors Program at Binghamton. Her research interests include the relationship between identity and illness, narrative approaches to health care, chronic pain (and other "invisible" conditions), the moral and legal implications of memory-altering technologies, medical care and public policy, and the vulnerabilities of "outsider" groups (culturally and otherwise) within biomedical institutions.
Dafna Feinholz Klip (Mexico)
Board Member
Chief of bioethics section in UNESCO. She was the Executive Director of the National Commission of Bioethics (Mexico) and used to teach at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. She was the founder of FLACEIS (Latin American Forum of Ethics Committees in Health Research) and chairperson 2000-2006. She was Mexico´s representative at the IGB meetings to discuss the UNESCO Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights. She publishes papers on reproductive health and research ethics.
Jyotsna Gupta
Board Member
Carolyn McLeod (Canada)
Board Member
Associate Professor and Graduate Chair in the Department of Philosophy and an affiliate member of the Department of Women's Studies and Feminist Research at the University of Western Ontario. Her research and teaching falls within the areas of reproductive ethics, moral theory, and feminist theory. She was FAB Co-coordinator from 2006-2008. Website: http://publish.uwo.ca/~cmcleod2/
Rosemarie Tong (USA)
Board Member
Distinguished Professor of Health Care Ethics and Director of the Center for Professional and Applied Ethics at the University of North Carolina. Rosie is one of the founding mothers of feminist ethics, with a life time involvement in the field.
Ex officio FAB Advisory Board Members (FAB Officers)
Rebecca Kukla (USA)
Immediate Past Co-Coordinator
Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University and the University of South Florida, and a Senior Research Scholar in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University. She received her Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh in 1996 and was a Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics and Health Policy at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health from 2003-2005. Her research interests include public health ethics, the ethics of obstetrical care, the culture of motherhood, and medical epistemology.
Mary Rawlinson (USA)
IJFAB Editor
Website Facilitator
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Stony Brook University. In addition to her ongoing role as Editor of IJFAB, Mary is editor of Feminist Bioethics (JMP, 2001), as well as The Voice of Breast Cancer in Medicine and Bioethics (Springer, 2006).
Rachel Ankeny (Australia)
Treasurer
Associate Professor in the School of History and Politics and member of the Fay Gale Centre for Research on Gender at the University of Adelaide. Her research interests in bioethics include food ethics, ethical and policy issues in genetics, reproduction, women's health, and embryo and stem cell research, among other topics. She also has expertise and ongoing research on health and science policy, particularly regarding public engagement.
Wendy Rogers (Australia)
Membership Secretary
Professor of Clinical Ethics, Department of Philosophy & Australian School of Advanced Medicine, Macquarie University. Wendy was co-coordinator of FAB 2006-8, following which she took on the role of membership secretary. She received her PhD in medical ethics from Flinders University, Adelaide in 1998, where she taught medical ethics prior to moving to Macquarie University, Sydney in 2009. Her research interests include research ethics, public health ethics, organ donation and the ethics of innovative surgery.
Terry Hudgins
Listserv Facilitator
Nikola Biller-Andorno (Switzerland)
Liaison with IAB
Professor and Chair of Biomedical Ethics, University of Zurich, Switzerland. Nikola directs the Institute of Biomedical Ethics at the University of Zurich, which was designated as WHO Collaborating Center in 2009. She also co-directs the PhD program “Biomedical Ethics and Law” and acts as deputy editor of the Journal of Medical Ethics. She has been on the Board of the IAB since 2007 and currently serves as IAB President (2009-2010).
Carolyn Ells (Canada)
Co-coordinator
Associate Professor of Medicine, McGill University; Ethicist, Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital; and Associate Researcher, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research. As FAB’s Archivist Carolyn maintains a paper and electronic archive of FAB records and memorabilia that have enduring historical value.
Linda MacDonald Glenn (USA)
Grants Coordinator
Healthcare ethics educator, attorney-at-law and consultant. She is an Assistant Professor at the Alden March Bioethics Institute, Albany Medical Center; she also holds Fellowships at the Institute for Emerging Technologies, the American Bar Foundation, and has been a Women’s Bioethics Project Scholar. Her research encompasses the legal, ethical, and social impact of emerging technologies and evolving notions of personhood.
Other Appointments within FAB
Heather Draper (UK)
Co-Chair of FAB Conference Program Committee
Professor of Biomedical Ethics and Director of the Centre for Biomedical Ethics, University of Birmingham, UK.
Rebecca Kukla (USA)
Co-Chair of FAB Conference Program Committee
See Rebecca's biosketch above.