FAB Board

Carolyn McLeod

Co-coordinator

Carolyn McLeod (Canada) has a long-standing interest in FAB. She has attended and presented at three FAB conferences and recently sat on the FAB steering committee aimed at developing a FAB journal. She is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario in Ontario, Canada. In 2002, she published Self-Trust and Reproductive Autonomy with the Basic Bioethics series of the MIT Press. Since then, she has published numerous papers on topics including integrity, objectification, and the commodification of human embryos and women's reproductive labour. She is currently working on a book-length project about conscientious objection, particularly to abortion, by reproductive health care providers.

Wendy Rogers

Co-coordinator

Wendy Rogers (Australia) has been an active member of FAB since 1996 and has served as coordinator of the country representatives for the past six years. Her current position is Associate Professor of medical ethics and health law at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia. Her research in feminist health ethics includes work on the construction of menopause as a disease, the role of gender in the development and application of evidence about medical interventions, and feminist public health ethics. She is currently a member of the Australian Health Ethics Committee and the South Australian Medical Board.

Robin Fiore

Board Member

Robin Fiore (USA) has been a FAB member since 2004. She is the Adelaide R. Snyder Professor of Ethics, Associate Professor of Philosophy, and Affiliate Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Science at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. She holds an appointment as Voluntary Associate Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. She also serves as Special Assistant to the Dean for Ethics Initiatives and Director of the Ethics, Law, and Society program. She has recently been appointed to the Advisory Board of the Women’s Bioethics Project, a Seattle based public policy think tank.

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.

Hilde Lindemann

Board Member

Hilde Lindemann (USA) is a former co-coordinator of FAB (Jan. 2003-Dec. 2004) and has served for many years as FAB listserv and website manager.  She is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Michigan State University, editor of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, and coeditor of Rowman & Littlefield’s Feminist Constructions series. Her most recent books are An Invitation to Feminist Ethics and, as Hilde Lindemann Nelson, Damaged Identities, Narrative Repair. She coauthored Alzheimer’s: Answers to Hard Questions for Families and The Patient in the Family, and edited Feminism and Families and Stories and Their Limits: Narrative Approaches to Bioethics.

Barbara Nicholas

Board Member

Barbara Nicholas (New Zealand) has been involved with FAB since its early days and presently serves as country representative for New Zealand. She received her doctorate in bioethics following earlier study in science, theology, early childhood education and prevention of violence against women.  Following academic service at Otago Medical School she moved into work in health, biotechnology and bioethics policy with the Royal Commission on Genetic Modification and the New Zealand Bioethics Council. She now works as an independent consultant in ethics and futures, waits for grandchildren and grows walnuts.

Laura Purdy

Board Member

Laura Purdy (USA) was coeditor (with Anne Donchin) of Embodying Bioethics, an anthology based largely on presentations at FAB’s 1996 conference in San Francisco. She has taught since 1979 at Wells College, where she is currently Professor of Philosophy in Public Affairs: Ethics, Politics, and Social Policy. She has also been a bioethicist at the Joint Centre for Bioethics in Toronto, where she was also Professor of Philosophy in the Philosophy Department. She is co-editor (with FAB co-founder, Helen B. Holmes) of Feminist Perspectives in Bioethics (IUP, 1992), and (with Wanda Teays) of Bioethics, Justice, and Health Care (Wadsworth, 2001). Cornell UP has also published a collection of her writing in reproductive ethics, Reproducing Persons (CUP, 1996). This will be her second term on the FAB board.

Jackie Leach Scully

Board Member

Jackie Leach Scully (Switzerland) is FAB country representative for Switzerland. She is currently Senior Research Associate at the Unit for Ethics in the Biosciences, University of Basel, Switzerland. After receiving a PhD.in molecular biology she studied ethics and psychoanalytic theory. Her research interests include feminist approaches to ethics, disability, theories of embodiment; ethical issues in the new genetics, reproductive biology, neurosciences; moral psychology, and the moral understandings of socially marginalized groups. She is a member of the editorial team currently preparing for publication a collection of essays based on the 2004 FAB conference. This will be her second term on the FAB Board.

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.

Anne Donchin

Treasurer

Rachel Ankeny

Membership Secretary

Cheryl Cline

Listserv Facilitator

Ruth Groenhout

Website Facilitator

Toby Schonfeld

Newsletter Editor

Francoise Baylis

Chair of Journal Committee

Susana Sommer

Country Representatives Coordinator

Sue Dodds

Liason with IAB

Carolyn Ells

Archivist

Mary C. Rawlinson

IJFAB Editor

Lisa Eckenwiler

Book Review Editor

Associate Professor of Philosophy

Laura Purdy

Grants Coordinator