The United States Council on Bioethics was established by George W. Bush in 2002. As of 2005 it had the following members:

• Dr. Leon Kass, committee chairman, bioethicist, professor, University of Chicago.
• Dr. Benjamin Carson, director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University
• Dr. Diana Schaub, chairman of Loyola College's political science department
• Dr. Peter Lawler, professor of government at Berry College.
• Dr. Stephen Carter, law professor, Yale University.
• Dr. Rebecca Dresser , law professor, Washington University.
• Dr. Daniel Foster , chairman of internal medicine department, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School.
• Dr. Francis Fukuyama, professor of international political economy, Johns Hopkins University.
• Dr. Michael Gazzaniga , director, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Dartmouth College.
• Dr. Robert P. George , professor of jurisprudence, Princeton University.
• Dr. Alfonso Gomez-Lobo , professor of metaphysics and moral philosophy, Georgetown University.
• Dr. Mary Ann Glendon , professor of law, Harvard University.
• Dr. William B. Hurlbut , consulting professor in human biology, Stanford University.
• Dr. Charles Krauthammer, columnist, The Washington Post.
• Dr. Paul McHugh , director of the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, Johns Hopkins University.
• Dr. Gilbert Meilaender , professor of Christian ethics, Valparaiso University.
• Dr. Janet D. Rowley , professor of medicine, molecular genetics and cell biology, and human genetics, University of Chicago.
• Dr. Michael J. Sandel , professor of government, Harvard University.
• Dr. James Q. Wilson, emeritus professor of management and public policy, University of California at Los Angeles.

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Former Members

• Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn, professor, biochemistry and biophysics, University California at San Francisco .
• Dr. William F. May , emeritus professor of ethics, Southern Methodist University.

External link

• http://www.bioethics.gov/