Sheri Alpert, M.P.A., Ph.D., is currently a Visiting Scholar and Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Bioethics. Her research focuses on ethical and policy issues associated with emerging technologies in genetics, neuroscience, and nanotechnology. She is an Associate Editor for the journal Neuroethics and is on the editorial board of the journal Accountability in Research.

Bette Anton, M.I.S., is Head Librarian for the Pamela & Kenneth Fong Optometry & Health Sciences Library of the University of California, Berkeley. This library serves the UC Berkeley School of Optometry and the UC Berkeley–UC San Francisco Joint Medical Program.

Keith A. Bauer, M.S.W., Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The majority of his research has examined the ethical and social implications of information and communication technology for healthcare. He is presently exploring transhumanism, the philosophical and technological movement advocating the “enhancement” of humans by various technologies.

Cynthia Baur, Ph.D., is the Director, Division of Health Communication and Marketing, National Center for Health Marketing, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC.

Nancy Berlinger, Ph.D., M.Div., is Deputy Director and Research Associate at The Hastings Center. Her research interests focus on clinical ethics and include end of life care, ethics in healthcare chaplaincy, ethical issues in cancer care, moral distress in healthcare, and the resolution of medical harm.

Anita Cava, J.D., is Associate Professor of Business Law, Director of the Business Ethics Program, and Co-Director of the Ethics Programs at the University of Miami, Miami, Florida.

Jeff Collmann, Ph.D., is Associate Professor, Department of Radiology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC. His current research includes applying theories about organizational failure and reliability to the understanding and enhancement of protecting sensitive but unclassified information in computerized information management systems such as computerized healthcare and biosurveillance systems.

Talmadge (Ted) Cooper, M.D., is an ophthalmologist at Sanford University Medical School, Palo Alto, California. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and the American College of Medical Informatics. He currently cochairs the HIMSS Privacy and Security Toolkit Work Group.

Arthur R. Derse, M.D., J.D., is Director of Medical and Legal Affairs and Associate Director, Center for the Study of Bioethics, and Professor of Bioethics and Emergency Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee.

Kenneth De Ville, Ph.D., J.D., is Professor, Department of Medical Humanities, Brody School of Medicine, Greenville, North Carolina. His interests include the legal and ethical implications of new technologies. He recently published “The Jury Is Out: Pre-Dispute, Binding Arbitration Agreements for Medical Malpractice Claims—Law, Ethics and Prudence,” Journal of Legal Medicine (2007).

Carol C. Diamond, M.P.H., M.D., is Managing Director, Health Program, Markle Foundation in New York and chairs Connecting for Health, a public–private collaborative working to realize the full potential of information technology in healthcare in the United States.

Walter Glannon, Ph.D., is Canada Research Chair in Medical Bioethics and Ethical Theory at the University of Calgary, where he is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Associate Professor of Community Health Sciences.

Melissa Goldstein, J.D., is an Associate Research Professor of Health Policy and Health Sciences at the George Washington University Medical Center, Washington DC, where she teaches courses in health information technology policy, bioethics, and public health law and conducts research on the legal and policy aspects of health information technology.

Amnon Goldworth, Ph.D., is a philosopher and Senior Medical Ethicist-in-Residence at the Lucille Packard Children's Hospital, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.

Kenneth W. Goodman, Ph.D., is codirector of the University of Miami's Ethics Programs, Miami, Florida, as well as founder and director of the Bioethics Program and its Pan American Bioethics Initiative. He is a Professor of Medicine with appointments in Philosophy and other departments. His research has long included an emphasis on ethics and health information technology.

Kenneth V. Iserson, M.D., M.B.A., is a professor of Surgery (Emergency Medicine), Director of the Program in Bioethics, and Chair of the Bioethics Committee at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson.

Bonnie Kaplan, Ph.D., is a Lecturer at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut, Adjunct Clinical Professor of Biomedical and Health Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and President of Kaplan Associates. She is chair-elect of the American Medical Informatics Association's Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues working group.

David Lansky, Ph.D., is Senior Director, Health Program Executive Director, Personal Health Technology Initiative at the Markle Foundation in New York. Dr. Lansky has been a national leader in a number of national quality initiatives, serving on the Board of Directors of the National Quality Forum and numerous other advisory committees, including the Institute of Medicine, CMS, and the JCAHO.

Sergio Litewka, M.P.H., M.D., is an Assistant Professor in ethics and director of the Latin American Programs with the University of Miami Ethics Programs. He is also the Latin American coordinator of the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI Program), a web-based learning tool for the protection of human subjects in research, with the University of Miami Ethics program and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center of Seattle.

Greg Loeben, Ph.D., is the Book Review Editor for CQ and Faculty Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Bioethics at Midwestern University, Glendale, Arizona.

Tracy E. Miller, J.D., is the Executive Director of The Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law at Seton Hall University School of Law, Newark, New Jersey. As a healthcare attorney she has written widely about bioethical issues and from 1985 to 1995 she was the executive director of the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law.

Jacob Moses, A.B., is a research assistant at The Hastings Center. He currently works on Center projects examining the ethical implications of emerging “synthetic biology,” appeals to nature within biotechnology debates, and the role of professional chaplains in patient-centered care.

Henry Neidermeier, Ph.D., is Vice President of Business Infrastructure at Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, California.

Stefaan Verhulst is Chief of Research at the Markle Foundation in New York. Mr. Verhulst was the founder and director of the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCMLP) at Oxford University, as well as senior research fellow at the Centre for Socio Legal studies. In addition, he was the Unesco Chairholder in Communications Law and Policy for the United Kingdom. His numerous publications include In Search of the Self: Conceptual Approaches to Internet Self Regulation (Routledge, 2001). Mr. Verhulst is also the founder and editor of the International Journal of Communications Law and Policy and the Communications Law in Transition Newsletter.