The Center for Humanities, Arts and TechnoSciences (CHATS), the Department of English, and the English Graduate Student Organization (EGS)** present:

The keynote speaker for:

Structure, Space and Transmigrations
April 15-17, 2005
University at Albany , SUNY
Albany , NY

Glenn McGee is a John A. Balint Endowed Chair in Medical Ethics, Director of the Center for Medical Ethics Research, and Professor of Medicine and Medical Ethics at Albany Medical College of Union University, and Chief of the new Office of Bioethics for the New York Department of Health. From 1995 until 2005 he was Associate Director of the Center fro Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania . Glenn is the founding Editor in Chief of The American Journal of Bioethics, the most cited journal of bioethics. He is also founding director of the finest and largest bioethics website, bioethics.net, and authors the poorly named "blog.bioethics.net."

Dr. McGee's books include The New Immortality, Who Owns Life?, Pragmatic Bioethics, The Human Cloning Debate, The Perfect Baby, and most recently a book about the merging of computers and genetic technology: Beyond Genetics. He has authored more than 100 articles in peer reviewed journals, and hundreds of book reviews, book chapters, editorials and law review articles. Dr. McGee has given more than 1,000 public lectures and delivered 49 named lectureships including the three-year Hawthorne Law and Technology Lectures at the Yale Law School ; this year he is the Colthorn Lecturer at Harvard Law School . He has been honored as a member of the Third Culture and profiled in recent months in Wired, the New York Times, and Philadelphia Inquirer. He is the recipient of numerous awards and honorary degrees.

Dr. McGee regularly testifies at the federal and state level and is a member of the U.S. Food and Drug Administrations Molecular and Genetic Devices Panel and more than two dozen editorial and advisory boards in academia, government, industry and for foundations. He serves on the ethics boards of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals, the Council of Science Editors, and the World Association of Medical Editors. He is also founding Editor of The MIT Press bioethics book series. Dr. McGee's commentary on bioethical issues has appeared in virtually every major newspaper and television news program, and he is a bioethics commentator for National Public Radio's All Things Considered.

He received the B.A. in philosophy from Baylor University , which honored him as a 2001 Outstanding Young Alumnus, and the Ph.D. in philosophy from Vanderbilt University with distinction. He received a post-doctoral fellowship from the National Human Genome Research Institute and did a post-doctoral fellowship in genetics at Harvard University .

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