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David
Ayares
Introduction
to the Panelists and Moderator (real media format) (pdf)
Detailed Biography: Dr. Ayares is the Vice President of Research and Cell Biology, Embryology, and Small and Large Animal Transgenics groups for his company. The focus of current efforts is on the production of pharmaceutical proteins in the milk of transgenic animals; xenotransplantation progress by overcoming hyperacute rejection in pig cells and organs; and the development and optimization of nuclear transfer and homologous recombination technology in pics, cows, and mice. A notable educational
and career background are consistent with the groundbreaking advances
that Dr. Ayares and his staff currently pursue. His undergraduate
degree in Microbiology from Purdue University eventually led to
a doctorate degree from the University of Illinois where he worked
in the laboratory of Dr. Raju Kucherlapati studying mechanisms of
homologous recombination and DNA repair in mammalian cells. Postdoctoral
work at the Department of Biology, M.I.T., included work in the
laboratory of Dr. Alex Varshavsky, studying Ubiquitin system and
mechanisms of protein degradation. As a Senior Scientist in the
Department of Molecular Biology at Abbott Laboratories, he was the
head of Transgenic Mouse Group, performing gene targeting in mouse
ES cells. That group produced animal models for human disease, diagnostics,
and pharmaceutical screening applications. Dr. Ayares continued
his career at Baxter Healtcare as Director of of the Molecular Biology
Lab where he directed research producing adenovirus and AAV vectors,
producer cell lines, and transgenic mouse models for gene therapy
of cancer and hemophilia.
Detailed Biography: E. Haavi Morreim,
Ph.D., is a Professor in the College of Medicine, University of
Tennessee, in the Department of Human Values and Ethics. She also
has a joint appointment as Professor in the Division of Health Services
and Policy Research, Department of Preventive Medicine. For seventeen
years at the University of Tennessee, and for the four previous
years at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, she has
done clinical teaching and consulting in medical ethics. Although
her research spans a variety of topics, it particularly focuses
on the ethical and legal implications of medicine's changing economics.
She is author of around a hundred publications in journals of law,
medicine, and ethics, including the Journal of the American Medical
Association, Archives of Internal Medicine, California Law Review,
Hastings Center Report, and the Wall Street Journal. Her book, Balancing
Act: the New Medical Ethics of Medicine's New Economics, first appeared
in 1991 and was republished in paperback by Georgetown University
Press in 1995. Her new book, Holding Health Care Accountable:
Law and the New Medical Marketplace, will be published by Oxford
in 2001. Dr. Morreim is listed in Who's Who in America and Who's
Who of American Women.
Detailed Biography: Dr. Payne is immediate past president of UNOS, the United Network for Organ Sharing and director of the liver transplant program at Fairview-University Medical Center. In addition, he performs liver and vascular surgery at the Veteran's Affairs Hospital. He was a founding officer in 1987 of LifeSource, Inc. which procures organs for transplantation and is on their Board of Directors. He has had a long relationship with UNOS (United Network for Organ Sharing) including serving on its organ procurement committee and liver committee. Chicago born
and raised, Dr. Payne received his undergraduate degree from Quincy
College in Illinois and his medical degree from St. Louis University
Medical School. He received his first choice of duty which was the
University of Minnesota. Within one year at the U-of-M he was involved
in transplantation. His mentors have included Dr. John Najarian,
Dr. Richard Simmons and Dr. David Sutherland. His early transplantation
work was with kidneys, and he became involved with liver transplantations
as a fellow in 1980. In one capacity or another, he has been involved
with approximately 1000 transplants since 1972.
Detailed Biography: Sheila M. Rothman is Professor of Public Health in the Division of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health. She is also the Deputy Director of the Center for the Study of Society and Medicine at the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. Her books include: Woman's Proper Place: A History of Changing Ideals and Practices 1870 to the Present (1978) and The Willowbrook Wars: A Decade Long Struggle for Social Justice, co-authored with David Rothman (1984). Her most recent book Living in the Shadow of Death: Tuberculosis and the Social Experience of Illness in American History (1994) analyzes the lives of people with tuberculosis, and traces the impact of disease and public health policies on individuals, their physicians, and the larger community. Her current research focuses on genetics, with a special interest in understanding the impact of new genetic knowledge on group identity. She is co-principal investigator with David J. Rothman on "The Genome Project and the Technologies of Enhancement" (National Institutes of Health). Its goal is to identify and analyze the challenges that genetic enhancements pose for American health policy and social policy. She presently serves as a member of the Task Force on Human Genetics at the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons and was recently appointed Chairman of the Task Force on Genetics and Public Health at the Mailman School of Public Health. Sheila Rothman is also interested in the links between human rights and medicine. Together with David J. Rothman, she has published articles on how AIDS came to Romania and medical accountability in Zimbabwe in The New York Review of Books. Since 1995, she has been a member of the Bellagio Task Force on Securing Bodily Integrity for the Socially Disadvantaged: Strategies for Controlling the Traffic in Organs for Transplantation. She is the Principal Investigator of a multi-site study that is analyzing patient and family decision-making toward organ donation in the United States.
Detailed Biography: Dr. Rowan received a BSc (1968) from Cape Town University and an M.A. and D.Phil (1975-biochemistry) from Oxford University. His thesis was on regulation of intermediary metabolism. Following his doctoral degree, he worked with FRAME (Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments) in London promoting the concept of alternatives to scientists and scientific institutions. He moved to Washington, DC in 1978 to take a position with the Humane Society of the United States as Associate Director of the Institute for the Study of Animal Problems. In 1983, he moved to Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine and was responsible for teaching biochemistry and for the development of the School's programs on animals in society. He was Director of the Tufts Center for Animals and Public Policy (1983-1997), and Professor and Chair (1995-1997) of the Department of Environmental Studies. He is the author of Of Mice, Models and Men (1984) and The Animal Research Controversy (1995), editor of People and Animals Sharing the World (1988), Wildlife Conservation, Zoos and Animal Protection (1995), Living with Wildlife (1996) and founding editor (1987-1996) of Anthrozoos (a journal on human-animal-environment interactions). Dr. Rowan serves on the Advisory Board (1981-present) for the Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Delta Society (Renton, WA, 1987-1996), Scientists Center for Animal Welfare (Bethesda, MD, 1987-1993), and Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (Boston, MA, 1985-present) and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Rowan is
the recipient of AFS International Exchange Scholarship (1964),
the Rhodes Scholarship (1968), the Felix Wankel Prize for Animal
Protection Research (Munich - 1980) and the Russell and Burch Award
for promotion of Alternatives (Utrecht - 1996).
Detailed Biography: Dr. Shuster received her Master Degree and Doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Paris, Sorbonne. She taught continental philosophy at Swarthmore College and Villanova University. She founded and chaired the Ethics Advisory Committee at the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, where she initiated and directed a medical and research ethics program. A former member of the National Ethics Committee of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, Dr. Shuster has written several articles on assisted reproduction, is the author of a book and several articles on health care and research ethics. She has been an active speaker in bio-ethics conferences, in the US and abroad, and has made several appearances on television major networks, including the Oprah Winfrey Show, NBC and ABC Evening News, and Ted Koppel Night Line. She is currently the hospital ethicist of the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and Adjunct Associate Professor of Philosophy, in Psychiatry, Addictions Program, at the University of Pennsylvania Health System. Her most recent publications include articles on the Nuremberg Code, Hippocratic Ethics and Human Rights published in the New England Journal of Medicine and the Lancet. |
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