Core Program Faculty
John Banja, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine
Medical Ethicist, Center for Ethics
Director, Ethics Section: Atlanta Clinical and Translational Science Institute
Ira Bedzow, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, School of Medicine
Executive Director, Emory Purpose Project
Jonathan Crane, Ph.D.
Professor, Departments of Medicine and Religion
Raymond F. Schinazi Scholar in Bioethics and Jewish Thought
Kathy Kinlaw, M.Div.
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Associate Director, Center for Ethics
Director, Health Sciences and Ethics Program
Director, Health Care Ethics Consortium of Georgia
Jim Lavery, Ph.D.
Professor, Hubert Department of Global Health
Conrad N. Hilton Chair in Global Health Ethics
Gerard Vong, D.Phil.
Director, Master of Arts in Bioethics Program
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
Paul Root Wolpe, PhD
Former Director, Center for Ethics
Raymond F. Schinazi Distinguished Research Chair of Jewish Bioethics
Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Neuroscience and Biological Behavior, and Sociology
The Bioethics program core faculty teach the majority of our courses. Students are also able to take electives, as well as have as thesis supervisors, from the Center for Ethics distinguished Faculty Fellows from around Emory University.