SJE Bioethics Group Steering Committee

Adrienne Asch, PhD [On Sabbatical]

Edward and Robin Milstein Professor of Bioethics, Wurzweiler School of Social Work

Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Director, Center for Ethics, Yeshiva University

asch@yu.edu

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Jonathan Cohen, PhD, LLB [Program Chair]

Dean & Associate Professor of Talmud and Halachic Literature

Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati

 jcohen@huc.edu         

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William Cutter, Rabbi, PhD [Vice Chair]

Steinberg Emeritus Professor of Human Relations

Founding Director, Kalsman Institute on Judaism and Health

Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Los Angeles

wcutter@huc.edu

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Elliot Dorff, Rabbi, PhD

Rector, Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies                                                                                   

Sol and Anne Dorff Professor of Philosophy, and Chair of Bioethics

American Jewish University                                                                                             

edorff@ajula.edu

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Sander H. Mendelson, MD [Chair]

Bioethics Consultant, Center for Ethics

Senior Attending Cardiologist

Washington Hospital Center, Washington, D.C.

shm@themendelsons.net

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Toby L. Schonfeld, PhD

Director, Master of Arts in Bioethics Program

Center for Ethics, Emory University

toby.schonfeld@emory.edu

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Leonard Sharzer, Rabbi, MD [Immediate Past Chair]

Associate Director for Bioethics. Finkelstein Institute of Religious and Social Studies

The Jewish Theological Seminary                                                                                   

lesharzer@jtsa.edu                                                                                                                      

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David Teutsch, Rabbi, PhD [Senior Advisor]

Louis and Myra Wiener Professor of Contemporary Jewish Civilization

Chair, Department of Contemporary Jewish Civilization

Director, Center for Jewish Ethics                                                                                                    

Reconstructionist Rabbinical College                                                                             

dteutsch@rrc.edu

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Paul Root Wolpe, PhD

Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Bioethics

Raymond F. Schinazi Distinguished Research Chair in Jewish Bioethics

Professor, Departments of Medicine, Pediatrics, and Sociology

Director, Center for Ethics, Emory University

pwolpe@emory.edu

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Noam Zohar, Rabbi, PhD

Senior Fellow

Director, Center for the Study of Medicine, Ethics, and Halakha

Shalom Hartman Institute    

Associate Professor of Jewish Philosophy, Bar Ilan University, Jerusalem

nzohar@mail.biu.ac.il

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