Jonathan Moreno, Penn's 2nd PIK Professor

Jonathan Moreno is the David and Lyn Silfen University Professor of Ethics and Professor of Medical Ethics and of History and Sociology of Science at Penn. He holds a secondary appointment as Professor of Philosophy. Moreno is also Visiting Professor of Biomedical Ethics at the University of Virginia and a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress in Washington, DC, where he edits the magazine Science Progress (www.scienceprogress.org).

Moreno is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies and serves on numerous National Academies committees. He co-chaired the Committee on Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research. He has served as a senior staff member for two presidential advisory commissions and has given invited testimony for both houses of congress. He was an Andrew W. Mellon post doctoral fellow and was awarded an honorary doctorate by Hofstra University. In 2008 he received the Benjamin Rush Medal from the William and Mary University Law School.

Moreno is an adviser to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and GlaxoSmithKline. Moreno is also a Faculty Affiliate of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University and a Fellow of the Hastings Center and the New York Academy of Medicine. He is a past president of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities.

Moreno is the author of Mind Wars: Brain Research and National Defense (Dana 2006), which the journal Nature called "fascinating and sometimes unsettling." His previous books include Undue Risk: Secret State Experiments on Humans (2001), described by the The New York Times as "an earnest and chilling account"; Ethical Guidelines for Innovative Surgery (2006); Is There an Ethicist in the House? On the Cutting Edge of Bioethics (2005); In the Wake of Terror: Medicine and Morality in a Time of Crisis (2003); Ethical and Regulatory Aspects of Clinical Research (2003); Deciding Together: Bioethics and Moral Consensus (1995); Ethics in Clinical Practice (2000); and Arguing Euthanasia (1995).

Moreno has published more than 250 papers, reviews and book chapters, and is a member of several editorial boards. He is a frequent guest on news and information programs and is often cited and quoted in major national publications.

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Jonathan Moreno, Penn's 2nd PIK Professor


	Jonathan Moreno is the David and Lyn Silfen University Professor of Ethics and Professor of Medical Ethics and of History and Sociology of Science at Penn. He holds a secondary appointment as Professor of Philosophy. Moreno is also Visiting Professor of Biomedical Ethics at the University of Virginia and a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress in Washington, DC, where he edits the magazine Science Progress (www.scienceprogress.org). Moreno is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies and serves on numerous National Academies committees. He co-chaired the Committee on Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research. He has served as a senior staff member for two presidential advisory commissions and has given invited testimony for both houses of congress. He was an Andrew W. Mellon post doctoral fellow and was awarded an honorary doctorate by Hofstra University. In 2008 he received the Benjamin Rush Medal from the William and Mary University Law School. Moreno is an adviser to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and GlaxoSmithKline. Moreno is also a Faculty Affiliate of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University and a Fellow of the Hastings Center and the New York Academy of Medicine. He is a past president of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. Moreno is the author of Mind Wars: Brain Research and National Defense (Dana 2006), which the journal Nature called "fascinating and sometimes unsettling." His previous books include Undue Risk: Secret State Experiments on Humans (2001), described by the The New York Times as "an earnest and chilling account"; Ethical Guidelines for Innovative Surgery (2006); Is There an Ethicist in the House? On the Cutting Edge of Bioethics (2005); In the Wake of Terror: Medicine and Morality in a Time of Crisis (2003); Ethical and Regulatory Aspects of Clinical Research (2003); Deciding Together: Bioethics and Moral Consensus (1995); Ethics in Clinical Practice (2000); and Arguing Euthanasia (1995). Moreno has published more than 250 papers, reviews and book chapters, and is a member of several editorial boards. He is a frequent guest on news and information programs and is often cited and quoted in major national publications.
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