Jonathan Moreno, Ph.D., Professor
University of Pennsylvania
Department of History and Sociology of Science
303 Logan Hall, 249 S. 36th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6304
Telephone: (215) 898-7629
Center for Bioethics
3401 Market Street
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19103
215-573-0245 (office)
434-531-3473 (Cell)
morenojd@mail.med.upenn.edu
Ph.D., Washington University
B.A., Hofstra University
Jonathan D. Moreno is the David and Lyn Silfen University Professor and Professor of Medical Ethics and of History and Sociology of Science at Penn. He comes to Penn in connection with the Penn Integrates Knowledge initiative. PIK is a University-wide initiative, launched in 2005 by Penn President Amy Gutmann, to recruit exceptional faculty members whose research and teaching exemplify the integration of knowledge across disciplines. Moreno holds a joint appointment in HSS (School of Arts and Sciences) and in medical ethics in the School of Medicine.
Moreno is also a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress in Washington, DC and a Visiting Professor of Biomedical Ethics at the University of Virginia.
From 1998 to 2006 Moreno held the Emily Davie and Joseph S. Kornfeld Chair in Biomedical Ethics at the University of Virginia.
He is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies and has been a member of numerous National Academies committees. He co-chaired the Committee on Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research. He has served as a senior staff member for two presidential advisory committees and has given invited testimony for both houses of congress.
Moreno is a past president of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. He is an advisor to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and GlaxoSmithKline. He is also a Faculty Affiliate of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University, and a Fellow of the Hastings Center and the New York Academy of Medicine. Moreno has published more than 250 papers, reviews and book chapters, and is a member of several editorial boards. He is a frequent guest on news and information programs and is often cited and quoted in major national publications.
Selected Publications
Mind Wars: Brain Research and National Defense (2006)
Ethical Guidelines for Innovative Surgery (2006)
Is There an Ethicist in the House? On the Cutting Edge of Bioethics (2005)
In the Wake of Terror: Medicine and Morality in a Time of Crisis (2003)
Undue Risk: Secret State Experiments on Humans (2001)
Ethical and Regulatory Aspects of Clinical Research (2003)
Deciding Together: Bioethics and Moral Consensus (1995)
Ethics in Clinical Practice (2000)
Arguing Euthanasia (1995).
