Dr. Nancy Angoff: Nancy Angoff is the Associate Professor Internal Medicine and Associate Dean for Student Affairs at the Yale University School of Medicine. She is also an Assistant Clinical Professor at the Yale School of Nursing. She received her M.D. from Yale University School of Medicine, a M.P.H from Yale University School of Epidemiology & Public Health and a M.Ed., Guidance and Counseling, from the University of Cincinnati. Since 1999 she has been the Director of the Longitudinal Elective for First Year Medical Students, which pairs second semester first year students with a patient with HIV/AIDS or a geriatrics patient and a preceptor for three and one half years. She also serves as the Director of Power Day, a program where first time nursing and medical students come together to discuss power and control in clinical relationships, and a program entitled “The First Day of School: Introduction to Cultural Competence.” Her other academic activities include being a Group Leader for Professional Responsibility, the Director of the Peer Advocacy Program, and a teacher of Using Standardized Patients to Teach Interview Skills at the Yale University School of Medicine.

Prof. Robert Burt: Robert A. Burt is Alexander M. Bickel Professor of Law at Yale Law School. He has been a member of the Yale faculty since 1976 and previously served on the law and medical school faculties at the University of Michigan and the law faculty at the University of Chicago. Professor Burt has written extensively on biomedical ethics and constitutional law. His most recent book is Death is That Man Taking Names: Intersections of American Medicine, Law and Culture (Univ. of California Press and the Milbank Memorial Fund, 2002); for preparation of this book, he was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 1997. He received a J.D. degree from Yale University in 1964, an M.A. in Jurisprudence from Oxford University in 1962, and a B.A. from Princeton University in 1960.

Dr. Thomas Duffy: Thomas P. Duffy, MD is Professor of Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine. He is currently Director of The Program for Humanities in Medicine at Yale, bringing attention to the links among the arts, humanities, and the practice of medicine by a series of lectures each year for the faculty, students and surrounding community members. Dr. Duffy is founding member of the Ethics Committee which analyzes topics such as euthanasia and the doctor-patient relationship. Dr. Duffy has been teaching medical students in both pre-clinical and clinical years, residents and fellows, and visiting students for more than 25 years. He served on the faculty of John Hopkins Medical School prior to coming to Yale. His clinical research focuses on Mastocytosis and Mast Cell Disease. He has recently been cited in the New York magazine as one of the area's best doctors in Mast Cell Disease.

Amos Friedland: Amos Friedland is a trial lawyer at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP.  Amos earned his J.D. from Yale Law School in 2008, where he served as editor of the Yale Law and Policy Review and participated in the Balancing Civil Liberties and National Security after 9/11 Clinic.  From 2003-2005, Amos was a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Post-Doctoral Research Fellow and sessional professor of philosophy at McGill University.  Prior to that, he earned a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the New School for Social Research in 2003, where his dissertation "Forgiveness, Reconciliation, and the Remains of Resentment" was awarded the Hans Jonas prize for best philosophy dissertation of the year; and an Honours B.A. (Philosophy, First Class Honours) from McGill University in 1997.  His academic work concerns post-Holocaust literature, philosophy, theology, and law, with particular focus on the writing of Imre Kertész.

Prof. Ari Goldman: Ari L. Goldman is a professor of journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the author of three books, including the best-selling The Search for God at Harvard. He was educated at Yeshiva University, Columbia and Harvard. Professor Goldman came to Columbia in 1993 after spending 20 years at the New York Times, most of it as a religion writer. At Columbia, Professor Goldman is the director of the Scripps Howard Program in Religion, Journalism and the Spiritual Life. In addition to the New York Times, his articles have appeared in the Washington Post, Columbia Journalism Review, the Forward, the New York Jewish Week, the Jerusalem Post and the New York Daily News.

Michael Goldman: Michael Goldman is currently the Jewish Chaplain to the Georgetown University Law and Medical Centers. Professor Goldman has taught a variety of courses on Judaism, most notably courses in Jewish Law, Ethics, and Bioethics at Georgetown. Before his position at Georgetown, he was an attorney in the Office of Chief Counsel, IRS, and the Department of Justice, specializing in EEO, Labor and Personnel Law.

Dr. James Hoffmeier: James Hoffmeier is professor of Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern History and Archaeology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He has served at TEDS since 1999. Dr. Hoffmeier was born in Egypt and lived there until age sixteen; he returns to Egypt often for research and excavation. In 1975-77, he worked with the Akhenaten Temple Project in Luxor. Dr. Hoffmeier has authored and edited a number of books, including 'Sacred' in the Vocabulary of Ancient Egypt, Israel in Egypt: Evidence for the Authenticity of the Exodus Tradition, Ancient Israel in Sinai: Evidence for the Authenticity of the Wilderness Tradition, Faith, Tradition and History: Old Testament Historiography in its Near Eastern Context, The Future of Biblical Archaeology, and The Archaeology of the Bible. Dr. Hoffmeier's present work in the threatened areas of northern Sinai (North Sinai Archaeological Project) grew out of an appeal by the Egyptian Antiquities Organization. He is involved in theological education internationally and has been active locally as a church planter, elder, teacher and preacher. Dr. Hoffmeier has also appeared in a number of TV programs on Egypt and the Bible for the Discovery Channel, the Learning Channel, the History Channel and National Geographic. Dr. Hoffmeier earned the Bachelor of Arts from Wheaton College, and the Master of Arts and the Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Toronto.

Dr. John S. Hughes: John Hughes, MD is Professor of Medicine at Yale School of Medicine, where he has received several teaching awards from medical students and medical residents. He directs the “Professional Responsibility” course for first year students, which addresses topics in medical ethics, law and medicine, and the organization and financing of the health care system. He also leads a capstone course for graduating medical students in the 3 weeks before Internship Match Day that covers a variety of clinical and non-clinical topics. Dr. Hughes’ academic interests include health care finance, cost containment strategies, and the evaluation and comparison of risk-adjustment mechanisms. He was involved in the development of the original Diagnosis-Related Groups (DRGs) that U.S. Medicare uses for hospital reimbursement. He has been involved in consulting work developing patient classification systems and quality assurance methods.

Prof. Anthony Kronman: Anthony Kronman is the Sterling Professor of Law at Yale Law School. A former Dean of Yale Law School, Professor Kronman teaches in the area of contracts, bankruptcy, jurisprudence, social theory, and professional responsibility. Before coming to Yale, he taught at the University of Chicago. Among his books are Education's End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life, Max Weber, Contracts: Cases and Materials (with F. Kessler and G. Gilmore), and Lost Lawyer. Professor Kronman received his B.A. from Williams College and his Ph.D. in Philosophy and J.D. from Yale.   

Father John Langan: Father Langan is the Cardinal Bernardin Professor of Catholic Social Thought at Georgetown University/Kennedy Institute of Ethics. He is also a Professor in the department of philosophy and core faculty of the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown. He teaches courses on ethical theory, on ethics and international affairs, human rights, just war theory, and capitalism and morality. He has also taught at Loyola University of Chicago, Drew University, and Yale Divinity School. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Michigan. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees in classics from Loyola University of Chicago and a bachelor of divinity degree from Woodstock College. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1957 and was ordained to the priesthood in Detroit in 1972. From 1975 to 1995 he was a fellow of the Woodstock Theological Center in Washington, DC. He has served regularly as a visiting priest in the parish of St. Thomas a Becket, Reston, Virginia, since 1983. He serves on the board of directors of Catholic Health Services of Long Island; Roper St. Francis (a health care system in Charleston, SC); and the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs. He is currently chair of the board of Theological Studies, Inc., and in 2002 he served as president of the Jesuit Philosophical Association. He has served on the boards of the National Capital Presbytery Health Services and of the Bon Secours Health System (MD).

Dr. Mark R. Mercurio: Mark Mercurio is a Professor of Pediatrics at Yale University School of Medicine. He is the Director of the Yale Pediatric Ethics Program and Chair of the Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital Ethics Committee. From 1998 to 2002, he served as the Director of Clinical Education for the Division of Neonatology, Pediatrics, Yale University. He has lectured on topics ranging from medical ethics, death, and dying to ethics and newborn resuscitation. Dr. Mercurio earned an M.A. in Philosophy from Brown University, an M.D. from Columbia University, and an A.B. from Princeton University.

Rabbi Benjamin Scolnic: Benjamin Edidin Scolnic has been the spiritual leader of Temple Beth Shalom in Hamden, Connecticut since 1983. He is the author of over seventy articles and essays on the Bible, feminism, liturgy, Jewish education, the relationship between religion and the media, and the future of Conservative Judaism. He is the Biblical Consultant for the Northwest Sinai Archaeological Expedition investigating the route of the Exodus in the Sinai Desert. He was the Editor of Conservative Judaism from 1993-2000.  Rabbi Scolnic served for seven years as Instructor and then Assistant Professor of Bible at the Jewish Theological Seminary. He has taught at Yale University and the University of Connecticut. He has also been a Special Educational Consultant to the Melton Research Center. Dr. Scolnic attended the Joint Program of Columbia University and the Teacher's Institute of J.T.S. He graduated both programs in 1975, finishing Columbia Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude, and with Honors in English. He also received an M.A. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia in 1977. He was ordained in 1979. He served as Assistant Rabbi and Acting Rabbi at Temple Emanu-el of Englewood, N.J. for three years, until he left for a year in Israel on a fellowship. He received his Ph.D. from J.T.S., the first to receive a Ph.D. in Bible from the Seminary in the history of its Graduate School. He also served two-year terms as both President of the Greater New Haven Board of Rabbis and as President of the Connecticut Valley Region of the Rabbinical Assembly.

Prof. Andie Tucher: Andie Tucher, a historian and journalist, directs the Communications PhD program at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Her book Froth and Scum: Truth, Beauty, Goodness, and the Ax Murder in America’s First Mass Medium won the Allan Nevins Prize from the Society of American Historians. Before coming to Columbia, Tucher served as a speechwriter for Clinton/Gore ’92. She was an editorial associate to Bill Moyers at Public Affairs Television, and edited his book "World of Ideas II" (1990). She also served as an editorial producer of the historical documentary series "The Twentieth Century" at ABC News and an associate editor of Columbia Journalism Review. Tucher graduated from Princeton as a Classics major, earned her M.S. from the Columbia University School of Library Service, and holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. in American Civilization from New York University.

Dr. LeRoy Walters: Dr. LeRoy Walters is a distinguished professor in the Philosophy department at Georgetown University. Professor Walters teaches courses on 'Ethics and Human Genetics' and 'Eugenics and Ethics.' Much of Dr. Walters' research has been devoted to ethical issues in human genetics. During the summer of 1971, Dr. Walters joined the newly-established Kennedy Institute of Ethics and its Director, Andre Hellegers, as the first faculty member appointed to a multi-year term. He has remained a member of the Kennedy Institute since 1971. In the latter year he was also named the Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. Professor of Christian Ethics, at the Kennedy Institute. During the summer of 1996, Professor Walters accepted a three-year term as Director of the Kennedy Institute. He has also served for three terms on the Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee of the National Institutes of Health. From 1993 through 1996 he served as Chair of the Committee, which reviews human-gene-therapy protocols. A continuing interest in Professor Walters' work has been the development of a bioethics library. The Kennedy Institute library, now called the National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature, is the largest collection of materials on biomedical ethics under one roof in the world. Dr. Walters earned his B.A. from Messiah College and his Ph.D. from the Department of Religious Studies at Yale University.