FAB Board

Rebecca Kukla

Co-coordinator

Rebecca Kukla is one of FAB's two co-coordinators for 2008-2010.  She is Professor of Philosophy and Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of South Florida, where she is also a core faculty member in the graduate program in Medical Humanities and Bioethics and an affiliated professor of Women's Studies.  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.

Jackie Leach Scully

Co-coordinator

Jackie Leach Scully is one of FAB's two co-coordinators 2008-2010. She received her PhD in molecular pathology from Cambridge University in 1989, and was a research fellow in Switzerland before joining the Unit for Bioethics at the University of Basel. Since 2006 she has been Senior Lecturer at the Policy, Ethics and Life Sciences Research Centre, Newcastle University, UK, and Masters Degree Programme Director in the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology. Her research interests include the construction of moral understandings, reproductive and genetic technologies, religion and bioethics, psychoanalytic theory, and disability.

Liliana Acero

Board Member

Anne Donchin

Board Member

Lisa Eckenwiler

Board Member

Jyotsna Gupta

Board Member

Dafna Feinholz Klip

Board Member

Dafna Feinholz Klip (Mexico) has a PhD in Research Psychology; and a Masters in bioethics (Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain). She has taken intensive courses on bioethics at the Kennedy Institute and Harvard Medical School. Currently, she is the executive Director of the National Commission of Bioethics (Mexico) and the Research Director of the Woman and Health program of the MOH: 2001-2002. She was the founder of FLACEIS (Latin American Forum of Ethics Committees in Health Research) and chairperson 2000-2006. She has published papers on reproductive health and research ethics. She has been a FAB Country representative since 2003 and was Mexico´s representative at the IGB meetings to discuss the UNESCO Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights. She is a member of several IRBs and teaches at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

Carolyn McLeod

Board Member

Julia Tao

Board Member

Julia Tao Lai Po-wah (China) is a member of the organizing committee for the upcoming FAB Conference in Beijing. She is professor in the Department of Public and Social Administration and Director of Governance in the Asia Research Centre at the City University of Hong Kong.  She is a former Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. She has also served as part-time member of the Central Policy Unit, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government think-tank. She is currently a member of the Ethics Committee of the Hong Kong Medical Council and a member of the International Advisory Board of the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy.  She is presently leading a cross-cultural research project on “The Moral and Policy Challenge of Long-term Care” funded by the University Grants Committee of Hong Kong.

Rosemarie Tong

Board Member

Rachel Ankeny

Treasurer

Lisa Eckenwiler

Treasurer

Assistant Treasurer, 2008-2010

Associate Professor of Philosophy

Director of Health Care Ethics
Center for Health Policy Research and Ethics
George Mason University
http://philosophy.gmu.edu
http://www.gmu.edu/departments/chpre

Wendy Rogers

Membership Secretary

Professor of Clinical Ethics

Department of Philosophy &

Australian School of Advanced Medicine

Macquarie University

NSW 2109

Cheryl Cline

Listserv Facilitator

Ruth Groenhout

Website Facilitator

Angela Ballantyne

Country Representatives Coordinator

Nikola Biller-Adorno

Liason with IAB

Carolyn Ells

Archivist

Associate Professor of Medicine

McGill University

Mary C. Rawlinson

IJFAB Editor

Laura Purdy

Grants Coordinator