Glenn McGee

Day: Friday, April 22
Hour: 10:30 - 11:15 am
Presentation: Ethics, Cloning and the World of 2005

Glenn McGee is the Editor in Chief of The American Journal of Bioethics. He holds The John A. Balint Endowed Chair in Medical Ethics, and is Director of the New York Bioethics Institute (NYBI), established at the Albany Medical Center in April 2005. He is also Chief of the new Office of Bioethics of New York Department of Health.

Dr. McGee received the B.A. in Philosophy from Baylor, and the Ph.D. in Philosophy at Vanderbilt. He then studied population genetics at Harvard and held a post-doctoral fellowship at the U.S. National Human Genome Research Institute. From 1995 until 2005 he was Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics and Associate Director for Education of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. McGee's books include The New Immortality, Who Owns Life?, Pragmatic Bioethics, The Human Cloning Debate, The Perfect Baby, and most recently Beyond Genetics, a book about the merging of computers and genetics. He has authored more than 100 articles in medical, scientific and law journals and has delivered 86 named lectureships.

Dr. McGee regularly testifies at the federal and state level and is a member of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Molecular and Genetic Devices Panel and more than two dozen editorial and advisory boards in academia, government, industry and foundations. He is Senior Editor of Bioethics for the MIT Press and he is a regular commentator for National Public Radio. He is also founding director of the first and largest bioethics website, bioethics.net. From 1998 until 2004 he wrote a syndicated column for MSNBC, since then he has written blog.bioethics.net.

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