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Paul R. Wolpe, PhD (he/him/his)

Raymond F. Schinazi Distinguished Research Chair in Jewish Bioethics
Center for Ethics, Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia

Paul Root Wolpe, Ph.D. is the Raymond Schinazi Distinguished Research Chair of Jewish Bioethics, Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Neuroscience and Biological Behavior, and Sociology, and the Director of the Center for Ethics at Emory University. Dr. Wolpe served for 17 years as the first Senior Bioethicist for NASA, and was the first National Bioethics Advisor to Planned Parenthood Federation of America. He is a Past President of the Association of Bioethics Program Directors, a past President of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, a Fellow of the Hastings Center, and a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, the country’s oldest medical society. He received an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the University of Judaism in 2019. A founder of the field of neuroethics and former editor of the American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience, he is currently working on biotechnology, artificial intelligence, and big data. A professor of Jewish Bioethics, he co-authored "Behoref Hayamim: In the Winter of Life" and is the bioethics advisor to JScreen, the national Jewish Genetic Screening Program. Dr. Wolpe was a member of the National Academy of Sciences’ Responsible Science Committee that revised the canonical volume “Responsible Science.” He has been a on Selection Committees for Canadian Scientific Societies including NSERC, SSHRC, and CIHR. Dr. Wolpe was named one of Trust Across America’s “Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior” won the 2011 World Technology Network Award in Ethics, has recorded a TED Talk with over 1.75 million views, and was profiled in the November, 2011 Atlantic Magazine as a “Brave Thinker of 2011.” Dr. Wolpe is a frequent contributor and commentator in both the broadcast and print media, having been featured on 60 Minutes and with a personal profile in the Science Times of the New York Times.

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