Ava Randel joined The Hastings Center in April 2025. Before coming to the Center, she taught ethics as an adjunct faculty member at New Jersey Institute of Technology and Montclair...

Lourena De Abreu joined The Hastings Center in April 2025. She is currently completing a master’s degree in bioethics at Harvard Medical School. She graduated from Howard University in 2023,...

Patrick T. Smith, PhD is an associate research professor of theological ethics and bioethics at Duke University Divinity School and an associate professor in population health sciences at Duke University...

Louise P. King is the director of reproductive bioethics at the Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics. She is an assistant professor of obstetrics gynecology, and reproductive medicine and has...

Faith joined The Hastings Center in August 2024. She graduated from the University of Toronto in 2023 with a double major in human biology and immunology and a minor in...

Reed V. Tuckson is a co-convener of the Coalition for Trust in Health and Science, which is dedicated to bringing together the entire health-related ecosystem to address mistrust and misinformation....

Rachel R. Hardeman is is the Blue Cross Endowed Professor of Health and Racial Equity and the founding director of the Center for Antiracism Research for Health Equity (CARHE) at...

Ian Stevens joined The Hastings Center in June 2024. Before coming to Hastings, he was a research assistant in Oregon Health & Science University’s Human Electrophysiology Lab. He graduated from...

Chelsea joined The Hastings Center in 2024 in a new position in which she helps manage all aspects of fundraising, communications, and public engagement. She spent nearly 10 years as the...

Emily Sanders joined The Hastings Center as grants manager in April 2024. She spent approximately nine years as dean of strategic integrations and initiatives at Madison Area Technical College, where...

Briana Lopez-Patino joined The Hastings Center in August 2023. She received her BA from Binghamton University with a major in philosophy. She was a research assistant in the Human Sexualities...

Dr. Faith Fletcher is an assistant professor in the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine, a senior advisor to The Hastings Center, and a...

Virginia A. Brown is a research scholar in social justice and population health. She joined The Hastings Center in September 2023 from the University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical...

Ellen Jewett is managing partner and founder of Canoe Point Capital, LLC, an investment firm focused on early-stage social ventures. Jewett serves on the board of directors of JetBlue Airways...

Sana Baban joined The Hastings Center in June 2023. She received her MBE from Harvard Medical School and BA in communication sciences and disorders from the University of South Florida.During...

Vardit Ravitsky, PhD, is the President and CEO of The Hastings Center, an independent, nonpartisan bioethics research institute that is among the most prestigious bioethics and health policy institutes in...

Stacey Lane is a member of the board of trustees of Montefiore Hospital and of Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx. She is also a member of the...

Professor emeritus of philosophy, University at Albany/State University of New York

Princeton University

Anne & George L. Bunting Professor of Clinical Ethics, Nursing & PediatricsJohns Hopkins University Berman Institute of Bioethics and School of Nursing

Emeritus Professor of Medicine and Public Health, UNC – Chapel Hill

Co-President, Rice Family Foundation

Professor Emeritus, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Co-Founder and CEO, Medethics, Inc.

Professor of Law Emeritus, Cornell University

Joseph Straus Professor of Political Philosophy and Legal Theory at Columbia University

Walsh McDermott University Professor of Medicine, and University Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine       

Distinguished University Professor Emerita, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

GRH Holdings, LLC

The Reverend  Rector, St. Philip’s Church in the Highlands, 1987-2018, Member, New York State Task Force for Life and the Law, 1995-present

Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Children’s Hospital at Montefiore

Washington University in St. Louis

Texas A&M University School of Medicine, American Medical Association

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

University Professor Emeritus, Scott H. Bice Professor Emeritus of Healthcare Law, Policy, and Ethics, Professor Emeritus of Law and Medicine, University of Southern California

Vice President, Environmental Defense Fund, Director and Co-Founder, Moms Clean Air Force

Founder & CEO (former) – Vertex Pharmaceutical Incorporated, Chair Emeritus – Harvard Medical School Board of Fellows, Chair Emeritus – Network for Excellence in Health Innovation (NEHI)

President Emeritus and Professor, California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

Partner, Latham & Watkins, LLP (ret)

Henry R. Silverman Professor Law and Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania, National Academy of Medicine, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society

Financial Executive:  J.P. Morgan, Bridge Information Systems, Riskmetrics GroupCurrent corporate boards: CboeEquity Options, Futures Exchanges; Modern Bank

Julius Silver Professor of Law, Science and Technology, Emeritus – Columbia Law School, Professor of Law, Emeritus, Columbia Law School, Founding Fellow, The Hastings Center

Dr. Amrit Ray is a physician-researcher and a biopharmaceutical industry R&D executive. He is passionate about advancing medical breakthroughs and championing health care access for patients. Amrit is an independent...

Dina Dublon is a board member of PepsiCo, T. Rowe Price, and Motive Capital Corp II and serves on the independent audit quality committee of Ernst & Young. She previously...

Dr. Richardson-Heron is a former Fortune 100 corporate executive, board director, physician, and public speaker with more than 25 years of leadership excellence in health care and the corporate, government,...

After a decade of pharmacology research at University of California, San Diego, he founded GraphPad Software. Hundreds of thousands of scientists now use GraphPad Prism to graph and analyze data and...

Danielle M. Pacia focuses on bioethics topics related to individualized therapies, community health, and the ever-changing landscape of reproductive health care in the United States. She is interested in high-level...

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson is a disability justice and culture thought leader, bioethicist, educator, and humanities scholar. She consults on many academic and bioethics projects, gives frequent lectures, presentations, and media interviews,...

Ryan Sauder joined The Hastings Center in 2020 as chief advancement officer and became chief strategy and advancement officer in 2024. Working with a talented team, he oversees fundraising and...

Lucas J. Matthews is a presidential scholar at The Hastings Center and an assistant professor at Columbia University. He received his PhD in philosophy from the University of Utah where...

Julie Chibbaro is a long-time teacher, mentor, and editor. She is the author of three novels, and numerous short stories and articles. Her books have won the American Book Award, the...

For the past 35 years, Usdan has grown the company his grandfather started in 1925, and built an integrated management, investment, and development platform. He has expanded Midwood Investment and...

Carolyn P. Neuhaus explores philosophical and ethical questions that arise throughout biomedical research and medical practice, from the philosophical foundations of the use of animals in biomedical research to the development...

Gray is senior fellow emeritus at the Urban Institute and editor emeritus of The Milbank Quarterly, which he edited for 13 years. Before coming to the Urban Institute in 2004,...

Mr. Canellos is Of Counsel at the New York law firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. He is a graduate of Columbia University, where he earned his bachelor’s degree...

Dr. Silverberg is a Professor in the Department of Medicine at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. She graduated from Cornell University Medical College and completed Internal Medicine...

Adriane Fugh-Berman, M.D., is the director of PharmedOut, a Georgetown University Medical Center project that advances evidence- based prescribing and educates health care professionals about pharmaceutical marketing practices.

Alessandra Hirsch, M.S., is the project manager at PharmedOut, a Georgetown University Medical Center project that advances evidence- based prescribing and educates health care professionals about pharmaceutical marketing practices.

Rebecca Holliman is a graduate student in Biomedical Science Policy at Georgetown and a volunteer staff member at PharmedOut.

Timothy F. Murphy is a professor of philosophy in the biomedical sciences at the University of Illinois College of Medicine and the author most recently of Ethics, Sexual Orientation, and...

Blair L Sadler is a senior fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), and a member of the faculty at the University of California San Diego’s Rady School of...

Joseph J. Fins, M.D., D. Hum. Litt. (hc), M.A.C.P., F.R.C.P., is The E. William Davis, Jr. M.D. Professor of Medical Ethics and chief of the Division of Medical Ethics at...

Harriet Rabb is the Vice President and General Counsel at The Rockefeller University. She became the first woman dean in the history of Columbia Law School when she was named...

Mildred Solomon has an international reputation for her research on, and advocacy for, wiser health care and science policy. She was President of The Hastings Center from 2012 to June...

Lin Tarrant joined the Hastings Center in 2008.  She has worked in the not-for-profit sector for over 25 years including Direct Mail Manager at Guiding Eyes for the Blind and...

Cathy Meisterich joined The Hastings Center as chief financial officer in 2006 and was given the additional role of chief operating officer in 2007. Previously, Meisterich was executive vice president,...

Jodi Fernandes has been with The Hastings Center since 1998 in administrative support roles that have spanned various departments including research, development, and finance, in addition to having primary responsibilities...

Siofra Vizzi  joined the Hastings Center in 2010 as the development assistant and became manager of individual giving and special events in 2016. She also serves as the in-house photographer...

Nora Porter has been the Center’s art director for the past 20 years. She is responsible for the design of the Center’s publications, promotional and development materials, and website graphics....

Susan Gilbert is the director of communications of The Hastings Center  and editor of Hastings Bioethics Forum. Before joining The Hastings Center in 2007, she was an editorial consultant and...

Laura Haupt, with Gregory Kaebnick, edits the Hastings Center Report. She is also a consulting editor for Ethics & Human Research. From 2013 until 2024, she was the managing editor...

Erik Parens is a senior research scholar at The Hastings Center and Director of the Center’s Initiative in Bioethics and the Humanities. He has taught bioethics as an adjunct professor...

Thomas H. Murray was president of The Hastings Center from 1999 to 2012. He was formerly the director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics in the School of Medicine at...

Karen Maschke has expertise on the ethical, regulatory and policy issues involving the development, assessment, and use of new biomedical technologies. She is the editor-in-chief of The Hastings Center’s journal Ethics...

Gregory E. Kaebnick explores questions about the values at stake in developing and using biotechnologies and, particularly, in questions about the value given to nature and human nature. He is...

Nancy Berlinger is a senior research scholar at The Hastings Center and a Hastings Center fellow. Her training is in the humanities. Her current scholarship and empirical research focus on...