1 Member of the American Medical Association Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs.
2 Distinguished university professor, professor of surgery and head of the bioethics section in the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, director of the Institute of Human Values in Health Care, and director of the clinical research ethics program of the South Carolina Clinical and Translational Research Institute, all at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, and chair of the Ethics Committee of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery and of the Cardiothoracic Ethics Forum.