Moderator

George J. Annas

Edward R. Utley Professor and Chair, Health Law Department, Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health; cofounder, Global Lawyers and Physicians; author of Some Choice: Law, Medicine & the Market, and numerous other publications on health law and bioethics; former Chair, Massachusetts Organ Transplant Task Force.

Introduction to the Panelists and Moderator (real media format) (pdf)

Detailed Biography:

George J. Annas, renowned as the father of patient rights, is the Edward R. Utley Professor of Health Law, Chairman of Health Law Department at the Boston University School of Public Health. He holds a degree in law from Harvard Law School and an M.P.H. from the Harvard School of Public Health. He is the author or editor of more than 200 articles and a dozen books on health law and ethics, including The Rights of Patients and Some Choice: Law, Medicine and the Market. He also writes the "Legal Issues in Medicine" feature in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Professor Annas is a member of the Institute of Medicine, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and co-founder of Global Lawyers and Phyicians. He has served on national and state commissions, including the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine and the Massachusetts Task Force on Organ Transplantation. His current research focuses on human rights, genetic manipulations, human experimentation, and health care regulation. Professor Annas has appeared on 60 Minutes, Nightline, Frontline, Today, and Good Morning America as well as the nightly news programs of NBC, ABC, CBS, and Fox. For five years, he was the director of the Boston University School of Law’s Center for Law and Health Sciences. Professor Annas teaches bioethics.

See these interviews with George Annas:

• "Making Babies," Frontline (1999)
• "Genetic Turf Wars: Who's DNA Is It Anyway?," DNA Dispatch (2000)

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