THOMAS COLE, PH.D. is the Painter Distinguished Professor at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, where he directs the Institute for the Medical Humanities Graduate Program. He is the author of The Journey of Life and author or editor of many articles and several books on the history of aging and humanistic gerontology. Dr. Cole recently completed Still Life: The Humanity of Anatomy (2001), a film that explores the unstated relationship between medical students in the anatomy lab and the people who donate their bodies for dissection.
	NANCY NEVELOFF DUBLER, L.L.B., is Director of the Division of Bioethics, Montefiore Medical Center, and Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She is also Director of the Certificate Program in Bioethics and Medical Humanities, a program held jointly with the N.Y.U. School of Nursing. A lecturer and prolific author on the subjects of home care and long-term care, geriatrics, prison health care, and AIDS, she is also the co-author of Ethics on Call: Taking Charge of Life and Death Choices in Today's Health Care System with Carol Liebman (1992); Bioethics Mediation: A Guide for Shaping Shared Solutions (2003), and co-author of Ethics for Health Care Organizations: Theory, Case Studies, and Tools (2001).
	RABBI DAVID ELLENSON, PH.D., is the 8th President of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and holds the Grancell Professorship of Jewish Religious Thought at HUC-JIR in Los Angeles, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1979. Rabbi Ellenson received his Ph.D. from Columbia University and Masters degrees from Columbia, HUC-JIR, and the University of Virginia. A Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute and Fellow and Lecturer at the Institute of Advanced Studies at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Dr. Ellenson has also published extensively on diverse topics in modern Jewish history, ethics, and thought. He is the author of, among other books, Tradition in Transition: Orthodoxy, Halakhah, and the Boundaries of Modern Jewish Identity and Between Tradition and Culture: The Dialectics of Jewish Religion and Identity in the Modern World. His forthcoming book, Judaism After Emancipation: Jewish Religious Responses to Modernity, will be published by HUC Press this year.
	RABBI DAYLE FRIEDMAN, M.S.W., is Director of Hiddur: The Center for Aging and Judaism at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, which draws upon Jewish tradition to enrich the lives of Jews as they age. She also serves as a clinical supervisor and a member of the faculty at RRC. Rabbi Friedman edited Jewish Pastoral Care: A Practical Handbook from Traditional and Contemporary Sources (2001), a groundbreaking compilation of theory, theology, and practice. As founding Director of Chaplaincy Services at Philadelphia Geriatric Center, she created the first clinical training in aging for rabbinic and cantorial students, and initiated and co-chaired the Center’s Medical Ethics Committee.
	JEROME GROOPMAN, M.D., holds the Recanati Chair of Medicine at Harvard University and serves as Chief of Experimental Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. After internship and residency in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Groopman completed fellowships in both hematology and oncology. A staff writer for The New Yorker magazine in medicine and biology, he is also the author of the popular books The Measure of Our Days (Viking Penguin, 1997), which explores the spiritual lives of patients with serious illness, and Second Opinions: Stories of Intuition and Choice in the Changing World of Medicine (Viking Press, 2000). Dr. Groopman’s newest book, The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness (Random House) was published last month.
	RABBI MORDECHAI HALPERIN, M.D., serves as the Chief Officer of Medical Ethics at the Israeli Ministry of Health and directs the Falk Schlesinger Institute for Medical Halakhic Research at the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem. A board member of the Bioethics Advisory Committee of the Israeli Academy of Arts and Sciences, he was formerly the Director of the Jerusalem Medical Center for Impotence and Infertility and has also taught at several academic institutes and rabbinic seminaries. Dr. Halperin edits Assia, the Hebrew Quarterly Review of Medical Ethics and Jewish Law, as well as the English language journal, Jewish Medical Ethics (JME).
	LOUIS E. NEWMAN, PH.D., is the Musser Professor of Religious Studies at Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, where he also chairs the Religion Department and directs the program in Judaic Studies. He is the author of Past Imperatives: Studies in the History and Theory of Jewish Ethics (1998) and co-editor, with Rabbi Elliot Dorff, of Contemporary Jewish Ethics and Morality (1995) and Contemporary Jewish Theology (1998). Dr. Newman recently served as the first President of the Society of Jewish Ethics.
	DEENA ZIMMERMAN, M.D., M.P.H., I.B.C.L.C., is known to thousands of observant Jewish women throughout the world in her capacity as a yoetzet halakhah [consultant in Jewish law]. A graduate of the Keren Ariel Program of Nishmat, the Jerusalem Center for Advanced Jewish Study for Women, she also works as a pediatrician for Maccabi Health Services in Shaalvim and Terem Immediate Medical Care in Jerusalem. Dr. Zimmerman is a researcher for the National Institute for Child Health and Development, Saban Children’s Medical Center, and the Soroka Medical Center in Beer Sheva, and lectures widely on women’s health issues and halakhah and on the promotion and support of breastfeeding.
	LAURIE ZOLOTH, PH.D., is the Director of Ethics at the Center for Genetic Medicine of the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University and Professor in the Program of Medical Humanities and Bioethics as well as in the Department of Religion at Northwestern. Former President of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, she serves on the Executive Committee of the International Society for Stem Cell Research and chairs the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Bioethics Advisory Board. She is a member of NASA's National Advisory Council, and its Planetary Protection Council and recently became principal investigator for the International Project on Judaism and Genetics. Dr. Zoloth's recent publications include Health Care and the Ethics of Encounter: A Jewish Discussion of Social Justice (1999) and with Dr. Dena Davis, Notes from a Narrow Ridge: Religion and Bioethics (1999).
	FACULTY INCLUDES THE ACJB BOARD JONATHAN COHEN WILLIAM CUTTER ELLIOT DORFF DAVID TEUTSCH GERALD WOLPE PAUL ROOT WOLPE NOAM ZOHAR