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Alice Dreger is Visiting Associate Professor of Medical Humanities and Bioethics at the Feinberg School of Medicine of Northwestern University in Chicago. She also serves as the project coordinator for publications of the Consortium on the Management of Disorders of Sex Development. Her work focuses on using history to improve the biomedical and social treatment of people born with socially-challenging anatomies, including those born with intersex, cranio-facial anomalies, conjoinment, and dwarfism. Dr. Dreger spends much time doing public writing and speaking in an attempt to engage audiences outside medical humanities in medical humanities scholarship.
James Dwyer is the Associate Director of Education at the Center for Bioethics and Humanities, at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York. He teaches clinical ethics and global health ethics and works with the ethics consultation service at the university hospital. Dr. Dwyer's written work focusing on health, justice, and democracy has appeared in the Hastings Center Report, Bioethics, Academic Medicine, and the Bulletin of the World Health Organization. He always tries to make his intellectual work of practical value, and his practical work of intellectual interest.
Daniel Wikler is Co-Director of the Program on Ethical Issues in International Health Research at the Harvard School of Public Health and will be a core faculty member in the new Harvard Program in Ethics and Health. He holds honorary appointments at two Beijing research institutions and is co-director of a collaborative project with China's Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization to enhance China's capacity for ethical review of health research. Dr. Wikler served as the first Staff Ethicist for the World Health Organization and remains a consultant to several WHO programs. He was co-founder and second president of the International Association of Bioethics and has served on the advisory boards of the Asian Bioethics Association and the Pan American Health Organization Regional Program in Bioethics. Dr. Wikler's current research interests are ethical issues in population and international health, including the allocation of health resources, health research involving human subjects, and ethical dilemmas arising in public health practice.
