University Forum with bioethicist Arthur Caplan set Sept. 17

3:35 p.m., Sept. 9, 2003--Arthur Caplan, who directs the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, will discuss issues in bioethics at a University Forum, scheduled from noon-1:30 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 17, in the Rodney Room of the Perkins Student Center.

Open to all members of the University community, the event, which includes a buffet lunch, is sponsored by the Office of the Provost. Anyone interested in attending should send e-mail to [provost-office@udel.edu] by Friday, Sept. 12.

Caplan, who also serves as the Emmanuel and Robert Hart Professor of Bioethics and chair of the Department of Medical Ethics at Penn, is the author or editor of 25 books, including “Who Owns Life?,” “Finding Common Ground: Ethics and Assisted Suicide,” “Ethics and Organ Transplants,” “Due Consideration: Controversy in an Age of Medical Miracles” and “When Medicine Went Mad: Bioethics and the Holocaust.” He also has written more than 500 papers in refereed journals of medicine, science, philosophy, bioethics and health policy.

A regular columnist on bioethics for MSNBC.com, he is a frequent commentator for National Public Radio, “Nightline,” CNN, Fox, CBS, The New York Times, TheWashington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer and many other media outlets.

Caplan has served on a number of national and international committees, including as chair of the Advisory Committee to the United Nations on Human Cloning, as chair of the Advisory Committee to the Department of Health and Human Services on Blood Safety and Availability and on the special advisory panel to the National Institutes of Mental Health on human experimentation on vulnerable subjects.

A member of DuPont’s biotechnology advisory panel, he has consulted with many corporations and consumer organizations.

Caplan’s honors include the McGovern Medal of the American Medical Writers Association and being named one of the 50 most influential people in American health care by Modern Health Care magazine. He also holds six honorary degrees from colleges and medical schools.

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