Laurie
Zoloth, PhD
Director, Bioethics, Center for Genetic Medicine
Professor, Medical Ethics and Humanities
Program of Medical Ethics and Humanities
Professor of Religion
To Contact Dr. Zoloth:
750 N. Lake Shore Dr
6th Floor
Chicago, IL 60611-625
phone: 312-503-4621
e-mail: lzoloth@northwestern.edu
Dr. Zoloth's website
Laurie Zoloth is Professor of Medical Ethics and Humanities, and of Religion,
at Northwestern University, the Feinberg School of Medicine. From 1995-2003,
she was Professor of Ethics and Director of the Program in Jewish Studies
at San Francisco State University. In 2001, she was the President of the American
Society for Bioethics and Humanities. She is a member of the NASA National
Advisory Council, the nation's highest civilian advisory board for NASA, The
NASA Planetary Protection Advisory Committee, the Executive Committee of the
International Society for Stem Cell Research, and she is the Chair of the
Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Bioethics Advisory Board.
Professor Zoloth is also
on the national advisory boards of the American Association of the Advancement
of Science's Dialogue on Science, Ethics and Religion; the Geron Ethics Advisory
Board; The Data Safety Monitoring Board for the NIH International AIDS Clinical
Trials Group; The Robert Wood Johnson’s Project on Excellence at the
End of Life; The American Association for the Advancement of Science’s
Working Group on Human Germ-Line Interventions and on Stem Cell Research;
the Ethics Section of the American Academy of Religion; the Western Jewish
Studies Association; The Louis Finkelstein Institute for Jewish Social Ethics;
The Park Ridge Center's Project on Judaism and Bioethics, and the editorial
boards of The American Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics, Shofar: A Journal
of Jewish Studies; The Journal of Clinical Ethics; American Journal of Bioethics;
and Second Opinion: A Journal of Health, Faith and Ethics. She has served
as the bioethics consultant to NASA’s Ames Research Center's, and is
a member of NASA’s Interagency National Animal Care and Use Committees.
Her current research projects
include work on the emerging issues in medical and research genetics, and
on the ethical issues in stem cell research, and her research interest in
distributive justice in health care continues. In 1999 she was invited to
give testimony to National Bioethics Advisory Board on Jewish philosophy and
stem cell research. She has been awarded three faculty recognition awards
at SFSU, for teaching large classes, for research, and for community service.
In 2000 she was awarded a NIH ELSI (Ethical Legal and Social Issues of the
Human Genome) Grant to explore the ethical issues after the mapping of the
human genome. In 2001, she was named as principle investigator for the International
Project on Judaism and Genetics, co-sponsored by the AAAS, and supported by
the Haas Foundation and the Greenwall Fund.