Emily Davie and Joseph S. Kornfeld Professor of Biomedical Ethics
Director, Center for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Virginia

Brave New Worlds: The Ethics of Genetic Research

Professor Moreno is a member of the National Human Research Protections Advisory Committee, of the Board on Health Sciences Policy of the Institute of Medicine (National Academy of Sciences), and of the Council on Accreditation of the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs. He is also a bioethics advisor for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Genomics Collaborative, Inc., a Faculty Affiliate at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University, and a Fellow of the Hastings Center and the New York Academy of Medicine.

Mr. Moreno has published around 200 papers and book chapters, and is a member of several editorial boards. He is currently preparing a co-edited textbook on human research ethics and an edited anthology on ethical issues in the post-9/11 environment, entitled Bioethics After the Terror (MIT Press, 2003).

Professor Moreno is a commentator and columnist for ABCNews.com and is a frequent guest on news and information programs, including ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, MSNBC News with Brian Williams, and The McLaughlin Group. He is often cited in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Time, and other national publications.

He has held full-time faculty appointments at Swarthmore College, the University of Texas at Austin, George Washington University and the SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn. He has also held appointments at the University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics, the Children's National Medical Center, and has been a Special Expert in the Department of Clinical Bioethics at the Warren Magnuson Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.

Mr. Moreno has advised numerous federal and government agencies. During 1994-95 he was Senior Policy and Research Analyst for the President's Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments. He was a senior consultant for the former National Bioethics Advisory Commission and has advised the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. On several occasions he has testified before committees of the United States House of Representatives. Moreno received his bachelor's degree from Hofstra University in 1973, with highest honors in philosophy and psychology. He was a University Fellow at Washington University in St. Louis, receiving his doctorate in philosophy in 1977, and was a Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in cooperation with the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies. In 1998 he received an honorary doctorate from Hofstra.