Jeffrey Kahn is professor and director in the Center for Bioethics at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. He also holds the Maas Family Endowed Chair in Bioethics. His additional faculty appointments are in the University’s Medical School, School of Public Health, Law School and Department of Philosophy. Prior to this, Dr. Kahn was director of the Graduate Program in Bioethics and assistant professor of Bioethics, at the Medical College of Wisconsin from 1992 to 1996. From April 1994 to October 1995, he was associate director of the White House Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy and bioethics from Georgetown University in Washington, DC; an M.P.H. in health policy from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland; and a B.A. in microbiology the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Kahn is a fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar, Session 392, Biotechnology: Legal, Ethical and Social Issues, in 2001.