Jonathan D. Moreno, Ph.D.

Jonathan D. Moreno is Emily Davie and Joseph S. Kornfeld Professor of Biomedical Ethics at the University of Virginia, where he directs the Center for Biomedical Ethics.

Moreno is also Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University, a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, and an Adjunct Associate of the Hastings Center.

Moreno was born on June 11, 1952 in Poughkeepsie, New York. He grew up and was educated in public schools in the Hudson Valley and graduated from Hofstra University in Hempstead, NewYork 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 later a Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in cooperation with the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies. In 1998 he received an Doctorate of Humane Letters from Hofstra, honoris causa.

Moreno has held held full-time faculty appointments in philosophy departments at Swarthmore College, the University of Texas at Austin, and George Washington University in Washington. D.C. In 1984-85 he worked on the staff of the Hastings Center, returning to George Washington University with a joint appointment in philosophy and medicine, during which time he was also philosopher-in-residence at Children's National Medical Center.

In 1989 Moreno was invited to establish and direct a Division of Humanities in Medicine at the State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn, where he was Professor of Pediatrics and of Medicine. He left SUNY in 1998 to assume his current position at the University of Virginia. During 1995-1997 he was also a Faculty Associate of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, directing its project on Human Research Ethics. In 1998 he was a Special Expert in the Department of Clinical Bioethics at the Warren Magnuson Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.

Moreno has served as senior staff for two presidential commissions. During 1994-95 he was Senior Policy and Research Analyst for the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments. He has also been Senior Consultant to the National Bioethics Advisory Commission.. He has advised the New York State Health Commissioner, and has served as a consultant to the National Institutes of Health, the Institute of Medicine (National Academy of Sciences), the United States Department of Energy, the United States Department of Education, the New York State AIDS Institute, the American Association of Blood Banks, and the American Society of Therapeutic Radiation Oncology. He has testifed before the United States House of Representatives and has lectured in Germany, Italy, Sweden, Hungary and Argentina.

Among Moreno's books are Deciding Together: Bioethics and Moral Consensus (Oxford University Press, 1995), Ethics in Clinical Practice (Little, Brown and Co., 1994; Apen Publishers, 1999), and Arguing Euthanasia (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 1995; Japanese edition, Mita Industries, Ltd., 1997).Undue Risk: Secret State Experiments on Humans from the Second World War to the Gulf War and Beyond (W.H.Freeman), will be appear in fall 1999. Moreno has published around 150 papers and book chapters, and is a member of the editorial boards of Bioethics, The Journal of Clinical Ethics, The HEC (Health Care Ethics Committee) Forum, and Accountability in Research.