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Thomas H. Murray Chair, Privacy and Security Working Group, Connecting for Health Thomas H. Murray is President of The Hastings Center. Dr. Murray was formerly the Director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics in the School of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, where he was also the Susan E. Watson Professor of Bioethics. Dr. Murray's research interests cover a wide range of ethical issues in medicine and science, including genetics, children, organ donation, and health policy. He is a founding editor of the journal Medical Humanities Review, and is on the editorial boards of Human Gene Therapy, Politics and the Life Sciences, Cloning, Science, and Policy, Medscape General Medicine, and Teaching Ethics. He is also editor, with Maxwell J. Mehlman, of the Encyclopedia of Ethical, Legal and Policy Issues in Biotechnology, (John Wiley & Sons, 2000). He served as a member of the US Olympic Committee's Anti-Doping Committee, is currently a member of the Ethics and Education Committee of the World Anti-Doping Agency and served as a presidential appointee to the National Bioethics Advisory Commission from 1996 - 2001 where he served as chair of the subcommittee on genetics. He served as a member of the Committee on Ethics of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology and is former Chair of the Social Issues Committee of the American Society for Human Genetics. He is currently a member of the Ethics Committee of HUGO, the Human Genome Organization. He is a past member and founder of the Working Group on Ethical, Legal and Social Issues to the National Institutes of Health Center for Human Genome Research, and chaired its Task Force on Genetics and Insurance. He served as co-chair of the Panel on NIH Research on Anti-Social, Aggressive and Violence-Related Behaviors and Their Consequences and was a member of the NIH Human Embryo Research Panel as well as the NIH Director's Working Group on Oversight of Gene Therapy Research. He is Past President of the Society for Health and Human Values. From 1999 to 2000 he served as the President of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. Dr. Murray is currently a member of the AAMC Task Force on Conflicts of Interest as well as the Center for Strategic & International Studies' Council on Biotechnology Research, Innovation and Public Policy. He also serves on the Advisory Committee for the Genomics Institute at the Wadsworth Center,is an Affiliated Scholar of the Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy and Law at the University of Louisville and is also a member of the FDA's Biological Response Modifiers Advisory Committee. He has testified before Congressional committees, and is the author of more than 200 publications. His most recent books are The Worth of a Child, published by the University of California Press, and Healthcare Ethics and Human Values: An Introductory Text with Readings and Case Studies, Blackwell Publishers, which he edited with Bill Fulford and Donna Dickenson.  |
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