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Authors of principal essays or articles on the Project site are listed below.  Biographical information on each author is current as of the date indicated in each entry. 
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A

Cristina Alarcon, BPharm [2009]

  • Masters in Bioethics
  • Clinical Instructor, Pharmacy Practice, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada;
  • Community Pharmacist, Hollyburn Medicine Centre Pharmacy, West Vancouver

Sheryl K. Albers [2008]

  • B.A. Ripon College 1976; J.D. UW-Madison 2004.
  • Attorney in private practice, Hazelbaker & Assoc. S.C.
  • Elected to Assembly in December 1991 special election; re-elected from 1992.  Did not seek re-election after 2008
  • [Profile]

Daniel Allottt [2009]

Dr. Shahid Athar, MD, FACE [2009]
  • Advisor to the Protection of Conscience Project
  • Clinical Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Endocrinology, Indiana School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.A.
  • Regent and elected vice-president of the Islamic Medical Association of North America, and was Chair of its Medical Ethics Committee
  • [Profile]

B

Helen Barratt [2009]

  • Specialty Registrar in public health in London and an Academic Clinical Fellow at University College London. [CMF Author Index]

Iain T. Benson, Barrister & Solicitor [2009]
B.A. (Hons.) (Queens); M.A. (Cambridge); LLB.

  • Senior Associate Counsel in the Litigation Practice Group of Miller Thompson, a Canadian law firm
  • Research Associate, South African Institute for Advanced Constitutional, Human Rights, Public and International law (SAIFAC), Johannesburg, South Africa (2008-present
  • Member, Continuity Committee, drafting Charter of Religious Rights and Freedoms under Section 234 of the South African Constitution
  • Consultant of the Policy Research Initiative (Federal Government of Canada) (2007-2008)
  • Research Fellow, Faculty of Law, Department of Constitutional Law and Department of the Philosophy of Law, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa (2007-present)
  • Member of the Advisory Council, Institute for Medical Ethics and Bioethics, Bratislava, Slovak Republic (1995–present)
  • Founder and Executive Director, Centre for Cultural Renewal, Ottawa (1994-2009).
  • Research and Policy Consultant to the Canadian Federal Government Industrial Inquiry Commission (West Coast Ports, 1995)
  • Senior Solicitor to The British Columbia Labour Relations Board (1987 - 1993);
  • [Biography]

Mons. Tarcisio Bertone, SDB [2009]

  • Vatican Secretary of State and Camerlengo.  One of the highest-ranking officials in the Catholic Church.
  • Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati (2008-)
  • Archbishop of Genoa (2002-2006)
  • Archbishop of Vercelli (1991 to 1995)

Maria Bizecki, B.S.P. [2009]

  • Earned her pharmacy degree at the University of Saskatchewan and did undergraduate volunteer work in the area of Reproductive Biology.
  • Completed a post-graduate Hospital Residency program in 1995 at the Foothills Hospital in Calgary.
  • Has promoted protection of conscience measures for pharmacists since 1996 and  and recently became spokesperson for Concerned Pharmacists for Conscience.

Matt Bowman [2009]

Karen  L. Brauer M.S. R.Ph [2009]

Mr. Justice David M. Brown [2009]

  • Justice, Ontario Superior Court of Justice.  

Archbishop Alex J. Brunett [2009]

  • Roman Catholic Archbishop of Seattle, Washington, since 1997. 
  • Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Degree from Sacred Heart Seminary
  • Licentiate in Sacred Theology (S.T.L.), and a Bachelor of Sacred Theology (S.T.B.) Degree from the Pontifical Gregorian University
  • Undertaken M.Ed. studies at the University of Detroit and Ph.D. studies at Marquette University, Milwaukee
  • Post-graduate work at the Ecumenical Institute in Jerusalem, the Institute Catholique in Paris, and the Goethe Institute in Radolfzell, Germany
  •  Recipient of the DOVE Award, presented by the Ecumenical Institute for Jewish-Christian Studies in Detroit, Michigan. (1996)
  • Leo Franklin Award in Human Relations in “recognition of his efforts to combat anti-Semitism and to create a climate of mutual respect in Catholic-Jewish relations.” (1989)
  • [Biography]
J. Budziszewski, Ph.D [2009]
  • Advisor to the Protection of Conscience Project
  • Associate Professor, Departments of Government and Political Philosophy, University of Texas (Austin), U.S.A.
  • [Profile]

C

Sue Careless [2009]

  • Freelance journalist
  • Senior editor of The Anglican Planet. 
  • Recipient of seven church press awards.
  • Her  work has appeared in the Globe and Mail, the National Post and the Toronto Star.

Teresa Stanton Collett, JD, [2009]

  • Professor of Law, University of St. Thomas School of Law in Minneapolis, Minnesota, since 2003. [Website]
Michael Cook [2009]

Kara A. Crawford, M.T.S. [2006]

  • Special Assistant to the Birthing and Care Program, a ministry of the Pro-life Office of the Archdiocese of Washington.

D

Marjorie Dannenfelser [2009]

  • President of Votes Have Consequences Program at the Susan B. Anthony List, a nationwide organization dedicated to advancing, representing, and mobilizing pro-life women in the political process.

Michelle Davis, BSc, MDiv, ThM

  • A  school chaplain in the Diocese of St. Catharines, and, formerly, a researcher with the Canadian Catholic bioethics Institute.

Joseph L. DeCook, MD, FACOG [2009]

André O. Devos, MD, Gyn-Obs [2001]

  • Co-founder and medical adviser, Natural Family Planning Flanders, Belgium
Ivan Cardinal Dias [2009]

Beth Doherty [2009]

  • Writer in Canberra, Australia

Lee Duigon  [2008]

  • Christian free-lance writer
  • Contributing editor for the Chalcedon Report.
  • Has been a newspaper editor and reporter and a published novelist.

John T. Dunlop, M.D. [2009]

  • Fellow, Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity, Deerfield, Illinois.
  • Medical Director for the Cardiac Rehab Program, Victory Memorial Hospital, Waukegan Illinois.
  • Zion Clinic, Zion, Illinois.
  • [Biography]

E

Rudolf Ehmann, MD [2001]

  • Director of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology,
    Government Hospital, Stans, Switzerland

Daniel Eisenberg, M.D. [2009]

  • Attending Physician, Department of Radiology, Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA
  • Assistant Professor of Diagnostic Imaging at Thomas Jefferson University School of Medicine
  • National Medical Ethics Columnist, Maimonides (1996-2000)
  • Medical ethics scholar-in-residence for the New England Institute for Jewish Studies in Jerusalem since 1999. 
  • Shofar Award, a national award for community service, from the National Council of Young Israel (1998)
  • [Website]

Jacky Engel, MA [2009]

  • MA in Medical Law and Ethics
  • Ethics research and publications assistant for Christian Medical Fellowship (United Kingdom).[CMF Author Index]

F

Carrie Farella, RN, MA, [2000]

  • Nursing Spectrum corporate writer.

Bishop Anthony Fisher ,OP, DD, BA (Hons), LLB, BTheol (Hons), DPhil [2009]

  • Auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of Sydney, Australia. 
  • Professor of Bioethics and Moral Theology in the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family.
  • Deputy-Chancellor of the Catholic Institute of Sydney
  • Adjunct Professor of Bioethics at the University of Notre Dame Australia.
  • [Biography]

Charles Foster [2009]

Michael A. Fragoso [2008]

G

John Garvey [2010]

  • John H. Garvey is the Dean of the Boston College Law School and current president of the Association of American Law Schools.
  • [Biography]

Francis Cardinal George, OMI [2009]

  • Roman Catholic Archbishop of Chicago, Illinois
  • [Biography]

David P. Gushee, Ph.D., M.Phil., M.Div. [2009]

  • Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics at Mercer University in the state of Georgia.
  • President of Evangelicals for Human Rights
  • Co-Chair of the Scriptural/Contextual Ethics Interest Group of the American Academy of Religion
  • Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics
  • Member of the Christian Ethics Commission of the Baptist World Alliance
  • [Website]

H

Amy Laura Hall, Ph.D. [2009]

  • Associate Professor of Christian Ethics at Duke Divinity School in Durham, North Carolina, USA
  • Steering Committee of the Genome Ethics, Law, and Policy Center
  • Faculty member for the FOCUS program of the Institute on Genome Sciences and Policy.
  • Served on the Duke Medical Center's Institutional Review Board
  • Served as an ethics consultant to the V.A. Center in Durham
  • Member of the Bioethics Task Force of the United Methodist Church
  • [Biography]

William RC Harvey [2003]

  • University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Fr. Vincent Hawkswell [2009]

  • Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vancouver. 
  • Former editor, BC Catholic newspaper.

Laura A Hawryluck, MSc, MD, FRCP [2009]

  • Physician leader, Ian Anderson Continuing Education Program In End of Life Care, Toronto; University of Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
  • [Profile]

Dr. Almut Hefter [2001]

  • 6th year in training in obstetrics and gynaecology in Germany.

Rev. Bonifacio Honings, OCD [1995]

  • Professor Emeritus of Moral Theology at the Pontifical Lateran University, Rome. 
  • Consultor to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
  • Consultor to the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers

Dr. Philip Howard [2009]

  • Consultant Gastroenterologist and Senior Lecturer In Medicine at St. George's Hospital Medical School,London
  • Chairman, Joint Medical Ethics Committee of the Catholic Union (United Kingdom)

I

Teresa Iglesias Rozas,  DPhil (Oxon), LicFil (Madrid), MA (NUI, Dublin) [2009]

  • Fellow of The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity
  • Associate Professor of Philosophy, University College, Dublin, Ireland
  • [Profile]
Jonathan Imbody [2009]
  • Vice President, Government Relations, Christian Medical Association - Washington Office
  • [Profile]

Dianne N. Irving, M.A., Ph.D. [2009]

  • Professor of Philosophy and Medical Ethics at The Pontifical Faculty, The Dominican House of Studies, Washington, D.C. 
  • Taught at the De Sales School of Theology, The Catholic University of America and Georgetown University
  • Former career-appointed bench research biochemist at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
  • [Website]
 

J

 Williard Johnston. M.D. [2009]

 T. Everett Julyan,  MBChB BSc DGM DRCOG MRCGP MRCPsych PGDipCBP [2008]

K

Fr. John Kelly, OSCO [2009]
  • Abbot, Southern Star Abbey, Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand. [Cistercian Order of Strict Observance (Trappists)] [Website]

L

Dr. Richard Land [2009]

  • President of The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, the Southern Baptist Convention's official entity assigned to address social, moral, and ethical concerns, with particular attention to their impact on American families and their faith.

Dr. Timothy E. Lau [2009]

Louise Lemieux-Charles, PhD [2009]

  • Chair of the Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (HPME), University of Toronto
  • Associate Professor in HPME, Program Director of the Hospital Management Research Unit
  • Adjunct scientist with the Institute for Work and Health
  • Member of the Collaborative Centre for Bioethics at the University.
  • [Profile]

Marianne Linane [2009]

  • Executive Director, National Association of Pro-life Nurses
  • Director of the Catholic Diocese of Little Rock's Respect Life office

Rabbi Asher Lipner, PhD [2009]

  • Ordained orthodox rabbi: graduated with a Master’s degree in Talmud and Rabbinics from the Beth Medrash Govoha Rabbinical School in Lakewood, N.J.
  • Psychotherapist at Ohel Children's Home and Family Services
  • Vice president and co-founder of the Jewish Board of Advocates for Children
  • [Profile]

M

John Mallon, MA [2009]

  • Contributing editor for Inside the Vatican magazine.
  • Director of Public Relations Human Life International, 2007- Present
  • [Website]

Preston Manning [2009]

  • Senior Fellow of the Fraser Institute
  • President and CEO of the Manning Centre for Building Democracy
  • Founder of the Reform Party of Canada (now the Conservative Party), former leader of the Official Opposition in the Canadian House of Commons
  • [Biography]

Susan Martinuk

  • Freelance writer and speaker on public policy issues and current affairs.
  • Formerly a successful researcher in reproductive technologies and infertility; she and her colleagues were credited with a world-first medical breakthrough for visualizing and recording the process of human ovulation
  • [Biography]

Alberto Mazza, M.D. [2001]

  • Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
  • Former Minister of Health of the Republic of Argentina

Brad. B. Miller, Comm., B.Comm (UBC), LLB (UBC), LLM (Edinburgh), D.Phil (Oxford) [2009]

  • Professor of Law, University of Western Ontario
  • research interests: constitutional theory, constitutional law and philosophy of law
  • [Profile]

Sean Murphy [2009]

  • Administrator, Protection of Conscience Project [Profile]

Marilyn Musgrave [2009]

  • Former US Congresswoman (R-Colo.)
  • Project director for the Votes Have Consequences Program at the Susan B. Anthony List, a nationwide organization dedicated to advancing, representing, and mobilizing pro-life women in the political process.

N

Ann Nadalini [2004]

  • Pharmacist in British Columbia, Canada
Miloslav Nesyba [2001]
  • Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Hospital Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic

O

Michael J. O'Dea

Eamon O'Dwyer LL.B, F.R.C.P.I., F.R.C.O.G. [2009]

Dr. Robert D. Orr [2009]

P

George Cardinal Pell [2009]

  • Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, Australia
  • Companion in the Order of Australia (2005) for service to the Catholic Church in Australia and internationally, to raising debate on matters of an ethical and spiritual nature, to education, and to social justice.
  • Awarded the Centenary Medal by the Australian Government on in recognition of his service to the Australian community through the Catholic Church (2003).
  • [Biography]

Dr. Mary Pipher [2009]

  • Received the American Psychological Association Presidential Citation in 1998.
  • Ph.D. in clinical Psychology from the University of Nebraska in 1977
  • BA in Cultural Anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley (1969)
  • [Profile]
Michael D. Place, STD [2002]
  • President and chief executive officer, Catholic Health Association of the United States
Dr. Pilar Vigil Portales, MD, PhD [2009]
  • Professor of the Faculty of Biological Sciences of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile since 1982
  • specializes in Gynaecology and Obstetrics and holds a PhD in Biological Sciences with a major in Physiology for the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
  • Postdoctoral training at the Texas Institute for Reproductive Medicine & Endocrinology
  • Awarded the Colegio Médico de Chile A.G. (Chile) prize, as well as the Editorial Los Andes Science and Technology prize for her scientific effort and commitment to the community
  • Publicly recognized by Revista Capital as the most
    remarkable female doctor in Chile

R

Paul Ranalli, M.D. FRCP(C) (Neurology) [2009]

Dr. Larry Reynolds MD, CCFP, FCFP [2009]

  • Former Professor of Family Medicine, University of Manitoba
  • Former Professor of Family Medicine, University of Western Ontario
  • Ian McWhinney Teaching Award for Excellence in Resident Teaching, UWO (2001)

Gene Rudd MD [2009]

  • Senior Vice President, Christian Medical & Dental Associations
  • Specialist in obstetrics/gynecology
  • Extensive experience as a director of a maternal-fetal medicine training program and in rural healthcare practice
  • Awarded the Gorgas Medal by the U.S. government for the most significant achievement in preventive medicine. [Profile]

S

Sally Satel [2009]

Peter Saunders [2009]

Dr. Peter A Singer MD, MPH, FRCPC, FRSC [2007]

  • Senior Scientist and Professor of Medicine, McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health, University Health Network and University of Toronto
  • CIHR Michael Smith Prize in Health Research: Canada's Health Researcher of the Year for Health Services and Systems and Population Health Research (2007)

Dr. Janet E. Smith [2009]

  • Fr. Michael J. McGivney Chair of Life Issues, Professor of Moral Theology, Sacred Heart Major Seminary, Detroit, Michigan, USA
  • Consultor to the Pontifical Council on the Family.
  • [Profile]

Wesley J. Smith [2009]

  • Senior Fellow in Human Rights and Bioethics at the Discovery Institute
  • Special consultant for the Center for Bioethics and Culture
  • named by the National Journal as one of the nation's top expert thinkers in bioengineering for his work in bioethics (2004)
  • [Profile][Blog]

Dr. Margaret Somerville [2009]

  • Founding director, McGill Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law
  • Samuel Gale Professor of Law at McGill University
  • First recipient of the UNESCO Avicenna Prize for Ethics in Science (2004)
  • [Profile]

Dave Stevens, MD ,MA (Ethics)

  • CEO, Christian Medical and Dental Associations (USA)
  • Former medical director of Samaritan’s Purse
  • Led an emergency medical team in Somalia, Dr. Stevens that treated 45,000 suffering Somalis in the midst of war
  • Medical teams under his leadership treated over 25,000 villagers to stop the spread of an epidemic
  • Executive officer and medical superintendent of Tenwek Hospital in Bomet, Kenya (1985 to 1991)
  • [Profile]

T

Christopher Tollefsen [2009]

  • Professor of Philosophy, University of South Carolina [Profile]
Dr. Nicholas Tonti-Filippini
  • Associate Professor John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family, Melbourne, Australia
  • Institute Associate Dean (Teaching, Learning and Research) and Head of Bioethics
  • Member of the Australian Health Ethics Committee of the National Health and Medical Research Council
  • [Profile]

Adrian Treloar, BSc, MB BS, MRCP (UK), MRCGP, MRCPsych, DCH [2009]

  • Consultant and Senior Lecturer in Old Age Psychiatry, Oxleas NHS Trust,and The Institute of Psychiatry

Fr. Bonaventure Turyomumazima, A Phil., BA Theol.,  MA Missiology

  • Archdiocese of Mbarara, East Ankole District, Uganda

V

Nancy Valko, RN [2009]

  • President of Missouri Nurses for Life
  • Spokesperson for the National Association of Pro-life Nurses
  • Contributing editor to Voices
  • [Profile]

Susanne van der Velden, MD [2009]

  • Obstetrician/gynecologist, Netherlands

Karen Vosburgh [2002]

  • Director of the association board of Valley Hospital, a nonprofit nonsectarian community-based hospital in Palmer, Alaska.

W

Niklaus Waldis, MD [2009]

  • General Practitioner, Switzerland

R. L. Walley, FRCSC, FRCOG, MPH (Harvard) [2009]

  • Founder and Exectuve Director, MaterCare International
  • Emeritus Professor of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Memorial University of Newfoundland
  • Consultor to the Pontifical Council for Health
  • [Biography]

Lynn D. Wardle, J.D. [2009]

  • Advisor to the Protection of Conscience Project
  • Professor of Law,  J. Reuben Clark Law School,  Brigham Young University, Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A.
  • [Profile]

Gregory L. Waybright, Ph.D. [2009]

  • President of Trinity International University in Deerfield, Illinois[Profile]

George Weigel, MA [2007]

  • Distinguished Senior Fellow, William E. Simon Chair in Catholic Studies, Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C.[Biography]

John W. Whitehead [2009]

  • Founder and President of The Rutherford Institute
  • BA from the University of Arkansas in 1969 and a Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Arkansas School of Law in 1974.
  • Awarded Hungarian Medal of Freedom
  • [Profile]

Z

Dr. Nikolaus Zwicky-Aeberhard
  • Internal Medicine
  • President of the Swiss Association of Catholic Doctors