Margaret E. Burton Professor of Religion and Ethics and Senior Advisor to the Provost for Social Ethics, at the University of Chicago and former Dean of the Divinity School. She was President of the American Academy of Religion and the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, and Vice President of the Society for Jewish Ethics. She was the founding chair of the HHMI Ethics Advisory Board and a member of the founding boards of the International Society for Stem Cell Research,the Society for Neuroethics, the Society for Scriptural Reasoning. As a Charles McCormick Deering Professor of Teaching Excellence at Northwestern University, she was the Brady Program in Ethics and Civic Life. Her books include Health Care & The Ethics of Encounter, Notes From a Narrow Ridge: Religion& Bioethics; Margin of Error: The Ethics of Mistakes in Medicine; The Human Embryonic Stem Cell Debate: Ethics, Religion, & Policy, Oncofertiility: Ethical, Social, Legal & Medical Issues, Jews and Genes: Jewish Thought & the Genetic Future. and forthcoming, Second Text and Second Opinions: Jewish Bioethics. She was a member the NIH National Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee, (RAC,)the Ethics Committee of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine well as 3 NIH DSMBs, the NASA Flight IACUC, and NSF Synthetic Biology and Nanotechnology National Centers and the California Stem Cell Research Advisory Board. She is currently a member of the Engineering Biology Research Consortium Board of Advisors, the NASA National Bioethics Committee, and the Ethics Advisory Board of the American Heart Association. She received both ASBH’s award for Service to the Field and the NASA National Public Service Award as the first ethicist on NASA’s National Advisory Board. In 2005 she was the Graduate Theological Union’s Alumni of the Year and was awarded an honorary doctorate from the American Jewish University.