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Christine I. Mitchell, RN, MS, MTS, FAAN is Executive Director and one of the founders* of the Center for Bioethics at Harvard University Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. Prior to becoming Executive Director, she was Associate Director of Clinical Ethics at Harvard Medical School’s Division of Medical Ethics where she developed the Ethics Leadership Group, an intensive clinical bioethics course, designed for medical professionals worldwide. The Harvard Medical School Ethics Leadership Group served as a precursor for the new Center for Bioethics at Harvard.

Simultaneously, while Mitchell taught bioethics at Harvard Medical School, she also had a dual appointment at Childrens Hospital Boston where she was Director of the Office of Ethics, a program that she founded and directed for 32 years. While (need actual dates)

, she created, organized, and taught NYU he was the Sidney D Caplan Professor of Bioethics and the Emmanuel and Robert Hart director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. Caplan has also taught at the University of Minnesota, the University of Pittsburgh, and Columbia University. He was the Associate Director of the Hastings Center from 1984-1987. Born in Boston, Caplan did his undergraduate work at Brandeis University where he majored in philosophy. He did his graduate work at Columbia University, where he received a Ph.D. in the history and philosophy of science.

While at the University of Pennsylvania, he became the first bioethicist sued for his professional role as a result of his involvement in a gene therapy trial that resulted in the death of research subject Jesse Gelsinger. The suit was subsequently dismissed by the trial court.

Caplan secured the first apology for the Tuskegee study from Lewis Sullivan MD then secretary of HHS in 1991 http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1991-09-22/entertainment/9103120241_1_tuskegee-study-tuskegee-experiment-tuskegee-syphilis-experiment. He worked with William Seidelman MD and others to secure an apology from the German Medical Association for medicine's role in the Holocaust in 2012 http://vitals.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/05/24/11867152-german-doctors-apologize-for-holocaust-horrors?lite

Caplan has made many contributions to public policy including helping to found the National Marrow Donor Program, creating the policy of required request in cadaver organ donation adopted throughout the USA, Helping to create the system for distributing organs in the USA, the National Organ Transplant Act, rules governing living organ donation, and legislation and regulation in many other areas of health care.

Contents

1 Academic work 2 Awards and honors 3 Bibliography 3.1 Articles 3.2 Books 4 References 5 External links
 * Co-founders were Dr. Robert Truug, Harvard Medical School and Childrens Hospital Boston and Dr. Edward Hundert, Harvard Medical School