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Leon R. Kass

Leon R. Kass

President's Council on Bioethics: Chair

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Institutional Affiliations

  • President's Council on Bioethics: Chair
  • University of Chicago: Addie Clark Harding Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and the College (1); Former Henry R. Luce Professor of the Liberal Arts of Human Biology, The College and the Committee on Social Thought (2); John M. Olin Center for Inquiry into the Theory and Practice of Democracy: Senior Fellow and Associate Director (2); MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics: Senior Fellow (2)
  • American Enterprise Institute: Hertog Fellow in Social Thought (1); Former William H. Brady, Jr., Distinguished Fellow (2)
  • National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences: Former Executive Secretary of the Committee on the Life Sciences and Social Policy (1)
  • St. John's College: Former Tutor (2)
  • Georgetown University Kennedy Institute of Ethics: Former Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., Research Professor in Bioethics (1)
  • The Hastings Center: Founding Fellow; Former Member of Board of Directors (2)
  • United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation: Former Member of Board of Governors (2)
  • National Council on the Humanities of the National Endowment for the Humanities: Member; Vice-Chairman; Chairman of Jefferson Lecture Committee; Chairman of Research Committee; Chairman of Preservation Committee (2)
  • Government Posts/Panels/Commissions

  • The President's Council on Bioethics: Chairman (1)
  • United States Public Health Service: Former Surgeon (2)
  • National Institutes of Health: Former Postdoctoral Fellow; Former Staff Associate (2)
  • Education

  • University of Chicago: B.S.; M.D. (1)
  • Harvard University: Ph.D. in biochemistry (1)
  • Highlights & Quotes

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    Sources

    1) The President's Council on Bioethics: Biography of Leon R. Kass
    http://www.bioethics.gov/about/kass.html

    2) University of Chicago Olin Center: Leon Kass CV
    http://olincenter.uchicago.edu/kass_cv.html


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