BIOETHICS
A guide to end-of-life issues

IN THE NORTHEAST
• David Cummiskey is a philosophy professor at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. He specializes in medical ethics, including the right to die. Contact 207-786-6286, dcummisk@bates.edu.
• Raymond Devettere is a philosophy professor at Emmanuel College in Boston and author of Practical Decision Making in Health Care Ethics. Contact 617-735-9787, devetter@emmanuel.edu.
• Dr. Thomas P. Duffy is a professor of medicine at Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn.; director of the Program for Humanities in Medicine; and chairman of the Working Group on End of Life Issues of Yale’s Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics. Contact 203-785-4744, thomas.duffy@yale.edu.
• Dr. Robert D. Orr is a consultant on clinical ethics at The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity, clinical ethicist at Fletcher Allen Health Care and clinical professor of family medicine at the University of Vermont College of Medicine, all in Burlington, Vt. Contact 802-847-2000, robert.orr@vtmednet.org.
• Ruth Purtilo is director of the Ethics Initiative at the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions in Boston. She is co-editor of Ethical Foundations of Palliative Care for Alzheimer Disease. Contact 617-726-6749, rpurtilo@mghihp.edu.

IN THE EAST
• The Rev. Ann L. Boyd is a biologist and an Episcopal priest. She serves as a biology professor at Hood College in Frederick, Md., and assistant rector of St. John’s Episcopal Church in Hagerstown, Md. Contact 301-696-3683, boyd@hood.edu.
• Dr. Robert Arnold is professor of medicine, chief of the Section of Palliative Care and Medical Ethics and assistant director of the Institute to Enhance Palliative Care at the University of Pittsburgh Montefiore Hospital. He is also president of the American Association of Palliative and Hospice Medicine. Contact 412-692-4810, rabob@pitt.edu.
• Elizabeth K. Chaitin is director of the medical ethics and palliative care programs department at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center-Shadyside. She is also on the faculty of the Consortium Ethics Program and is an ethics consultant for the Ethics Consultation Service for the Center for Bioethics and Health Law of the University of Pittsburgh. She is a co-author of Ethics in End of Life Decisions in Social Work Practice. Contact through Maureen McGaffin, 412-647-3555.

IN THE SOUTHEAST
• William Allen holds law and divinity degrees and is director of the Program in Bioethics, Law and Medical Professionalism at the University of Florida College of Medicine in Gainesville. Contact 352-273-5155, wmallen@ufl.edu.
• Dr. Lofty L. Basta is founder of Project GRACE, a “partnership of physicians, elder care providers and concerned citizens of Florida dedicated to changing the death-defying, technology-driven approach to end-of-life care to a holistic, compassionate one that respects human dignity and the individual’s best interests and personal wishes.” He was formerly professor of medicine and chairman of cardiology at the University of South Florida College of Medicine in Clearwater. He wrote Life and Death on Your Own Terms. Contact 727-536-7364, llbasta@yahoo.com.
• Janna C. Merrick is a professor in the department of government and international affairs at the University of South Florida in Tampa. She is co-editor of End-of-Life Decision Making: A Cross-National Study. Contact 813-974-2384, merrick@cas.usf.edu.
• James L. Werth Jr. is associate professor of counseling psychology at the University of Akron and co-editor of Psychosocial Issues Near the End of Life: A Resource for Professional Care Providers. Contact 330-972-2505, jwerth@uakron.edu. After July 27, 2007, he will be professor of psychology and director of the Psy.D program in counseling psychology at Radford University in Radford, Va. Contact 540-831-5361, jameswerth@aol.com.
• Raymond Whiting is an associate professor of political science at Augusta State University in Georgia and author of A Natural Right to Die: Twenty-Three Centuries of Debate. Contact rwhiting@aug.edu.

IN THE SOUTH
• Ellen L. Csikai is an associate professor of social work at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa and co-author of Ethics in End of Life Decisions in Social Work Practice. Contact 205-348-4447, ecsikai@sw.ua.edu.
• Dr. David J. Doukas holds the William Ray Moore Endowed Chair of Family Medicine and Medical Humanism at the University of Louisville, where he is also director of the division of medical humanism and ethics and professor of family medicine at the Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy and Law. He is a co-author of Planning for Uncertainty: Living Wills and Other Advance Directives for You and Your Family. Contact through Jackie Fryer, 502-852-1806.
• John Hardwig is a professor and head of the philosophy department at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. He wrote Is There a Duty to Die? And Other Essays in Bioethics. Contact 865-974-3255, jhardwig@utk.edu.
• Chris Hackler is director of the division of medical humanities and a bioethics professor at the University of Arkansas College of Medicine in Little Rock. He edited Health Care for an Aging Population and co-edited Advance Directives in Medicine. Contact 501-661-7973, hacklerchris@uams.edu.

IN THE MIDWEST
• Mark G. Kuczewski is director of the Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy and the Father Michael I. English, S.J., Professor of Medical Ethics at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine. He is a member of the board of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. Contact mkuczew@lumc.edu.
• Robyn Shapiro is director of the Center for the Study of Bioethics at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. She is the author of “Ethical and Legal Issues Surrounding Kidney Transplantation” in the Handbook of Kidney Transplantation. Contact 414-456-8498, rshapiro@mcw.edu.
• Jos V.M. Welie is a professor in the Center for Health Policy and Ethics at Creighton University in Omaha, Neb. He is co-author of Death and Medical Power: An Ethical Analysis of Dutch Euthanasia Practice. Contact 402-280-2034, jwelie@creighton.edu.
• James L. Werth Jr. is associate professor of counseling psychology at the University of Akron and co-editor of Psychosocial Issues Near the End of Life: A Resource for Professional Care Providers. Contact 330-972-2505, jwerth@uakron.edu. After July 27, 2007, he will be professor of psychology and director of the Psy.D. program in counseling psychology at Radford University in Radford, Va. Contact 540-831-5361, jameswerth@aol.com.
• Susan M. Wolf is McKnight Presidential Professor of Law, Medicine and Public Policy, as well as Faegre & Benson Professor of Law and Professor of Law and Medicine at the University of Minnesota law school. She is also a professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School and a faculty member in the University’s Center for Bioethics in Minneapolis. She previously directed The Hastings Center project that produced the influential book Guidelines on the Termination of Life-Sustaining Treatment and the Care of the Dying in 1987. Contact 612-625-3406, swolf@umn.edu.

IN THE SOUTHWEST
• Robert M. Baird is a professor and chairman of philosophy at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, and co-editor of Caring for the Dying: Critical Issues at the Edge of Life. Contact 817-755-3368, robert_baird@baylor.edu.
• Dr. Henry S. Perkins is professor of medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and the bioethics consultant at the Ecumenical Center for Religion and Health in San Antonio. Contact 210-358-3941.
• Stuart Rosenbaum is a philosophy professor at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, and co-editor of Caring for the Dying: Critical Issues at the Edge of Life. Contact 254-710-6361, stuart_rosenbaum@baylor.edu.
• Mark Yarborough is director and associate professor at the Center for Bioethics and Humanities of the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center. Contact 303-315-5177, mark.yarborough@uchsc.edu.

IN THE WEST/NORTHWEST
• Ralph Baergen is a philosophy professor at Idaho State University in Pocatello and author of Ethics at the End of Life. Contact 208-282-3371, baerralp@isu.edu.
• Peter H. Ditto is a professor of psychology and social behavior at the University of California-Irvine and a member of the American Psychological Association’s Working Group on Assisted Suicide and End-of-Life Decisions. Contact 949-824-1844, phditto@uci.edu.
• Roberta Springer Loewy is an associate clinical professor of bioethics at the University of California, Davis. She is co-author of The Ethics of Terminal Care: Orchestrating the End of Life. Contact 916-734-2177, raloewy@ucdavis.edu.
• James Walter is Professor Anne and Austin O’Malley Professor of Bioethics and chairman of the Bioethics Institute at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He co-edited Artificial Nutrition and Hydration and the Permanently Unconscious Patient: The Catholic Debate (scheduled for release in October 2007). Contact 310-258-8621, jwalter@lmu.edu.