Selected Publications:

Dr. Olick is the author of the book Taking Advance Directives Seriously: Prospective Autonomy and Decisions Near the End of Life (Georgetown Univ. Press, 2001). He is currently working with two colleagues on a book to be titled, The Tissue Issue: Stored Human Tissue in the Era of Molecular Genetics, to be published with Oxford University Press in June 2004.

Robin Levin Penslar, JD

Legal Researcher at Ogilvy Renault, Barristers and Solicitors.

Graduate Education:

J.D., Boalt Hall, University of California-Berkeley

Past work includes serving as Special Assistant on issues of research ethics to the Vice President for Research at Indiana University, and as a Research Associate at the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions. Her work in research ethics was preceded by legal practice at the law firm of Ballard, Spahr, Andrews and Ingersoll in Philadelphia.

Selected Publications:

Principal author and editor of OPRR’s Protecting Human Research Subjects: Institutional Review Board Guidebook (GPO, 1993).
Editor of Research Ethics: Cases and Materials (Indiana University Press, 1995).

John C. Pezzullo, PhD

Former Associate Professor in the Departments of Pharmacology and Biostatistics at Georgetown University. Informatics Core Director and Biostatistician for the General Clinical Research Center (GCRC).  Dr. Pezzullo retired only recently from these positions and looks forward to a Georgetown University adjunct faculty appointment.

Graduate Education:

Ph.D. Providence College, Providence RI

Past work includes serving as a member of GCRC's advisory committee (reviewing all proposed research protocols) and the Statistical Consultant to the GUMC Internal Review Board.  Dr. Pezzullo was the primary scientific programmer for the Pathology Department, Senior Management Engineer, Information Services Director, and Director of the Information Technology Center of Rhode Island Hospital (RIH). He was also the hospital's primary biostatistician, assisting researchers in the acquisition, management, and analysis of their data. He served on the RIH Institutional Review Board until moving to the GUMC in 1993.

Research/Other Activities:

Principal informatics / biostatistical consultant to the National Perinatal Information Center since its inception in 1986
Head, Informatics Section, Perinatal Research Branch of the National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development.
Consultant for a number of healthcare-related companies and organizations, including the Degge Group Ltd., of Alexandria VA, which specializes in providing drug safety research, consulting & information services to the pharmaceutical industry.

As a result of his lifelong interest in computational statistics, he maintains the Interactive Statistical Pages web site (http://StatPages.net), which provides an organized collection of hundreds of online statistical analysis pages, as well as links to statistical software, textbooks, tutorials, interactive demonstrations, and other statistics-related resources. This web site is accessed thousands of times per week by researchers, teachers and students worldwide, and has been cited by the Applied Mathematics Society and Science Magazine.

Ward R. Rice, MD, PhD

Director of Graduate Medical Education in the Division of Neonatology at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and Professor of Pediatrics in the Divisions of Neonatology and Pulmonary Biology in the Department of Pediatrics at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC).

Graduate Education:

M.D., Ph.D. (Biochemistry), University of Chicago, Chicago IL
Internship and Residency: Duke University, Durham, NC
Postgraduate Fellowship (Neonatology): University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati OH

Research/Activities:

In addition to his clinical responsibilities, Dr. Rice heads a research laboratory investigating factors regulating lung development.
He has served for 10 years on an NIH study section, 3 of those years as chairperson.
He is an active participant in the monthly Ethics Seminars sponsored by the CCHMC and has served as a scientific advisor to the Clinical Research Center of the CCHMC.

Edward H. Saeks, MD

Former President of the Medical Staff and Director of the Division of General Surgery at The Jewish Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Graduate Education:

M.D., University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Internship and Residency (General Surgery): The Jewish Hospital

Past work includes serving in the United States Air Force from 1958-1960 as the Chief of Surgery at the 6510^th U.S.A.F Hospital and private practice for almost 40 years. Dr. Saeks served on the Medical Staff Executive Board of The Jewish Hospital and on the Executive Committee of the board of Trustees for several years.

Other Activities: Board Member of several community organizations, including:

National Conference of Christians and Jews
The Wellness Community
Playhouse in the Park

Laura A. Siminoff, PhD

Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Health Care Research and Bioethics (with tenure) at the Case Western School of Medicine.

Graduate Education:

Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore MD

Research Interests: Dr. Siminoff has been the recipient of numerous research grants and specializes in conducting empirical research in bioethical issues. Her research Interests include:

treatment decision-making and informed consent for phase III randomized controlled trials
organ procurement policy
ethnic variation in provision of health care services.

Robert M. Veatch, PhD

Professor of Medical Ethics and the former Director of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University. He also holds appointments as Professor of Philosophy and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Community and Family Medicine at Georgetown's Medical Center. Senior Editor of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal and former member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Graduate Education:

M.S. (Pharmacology), University of California Medical Center
Ph.D. (Medical Ethics), Harvard University

Past work includes serving as an ethics consultant in the preparation of the legal case of Karen Ann Quinlan, the woman whose parents won the right to forgo life-support (1975-76) and testifying in the case of Baby K, the anencephalic infant whose mother insisted on the right of access to ventilatory support.

Selected Publications:

Dr. Veatch is the author of several books in medical ethics including The Patient as Partner: A Theory of Human Experimentation Ethics and A Theory of Medical Ethics. The second edition of his edited textbook entitled Medical Ethics was published in 1997.

Among his recent publications are:

The Basics of Bioethics (second edition), Prentice Hall 2000

Transplantation Ethics, Georgetown University Press, 2000

Consent, Confidentiality, and Research. The New England Journal of Medicine 336 (March 20, 1997):869-870.
From Nuremburg Through the 1990s: The Priority of Autonomy. In The Ethics of Research Involving Human Subjects: Facing the 21^st Century. Edited by Harold Y. Vanderpool. Frederick, MD: University Publishing Group, 1996, 45-82.
"Abandoning Informed Consent." Hastings Center Report 25 (March-April 1995, No. 2): 5-12.

Jürgen Venitz, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Pharmaceutics, Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacy, Director of the Pharmacokinetic-Pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) Laboratory in the School of Pharmacy, Campus of the Medical College of Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.   Dr. Venitz also serves as Chair of the Clinical Pharmacology Subcommittee, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, United States Food and Drug Administration.

Graduate Education:

M.D., Ph.D. (Physiology), Universität des Saarlandes in Saarbrücken, Germany
Postdoctoral Fellowship: Beehive School of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.

Past work includes serving as Director of Clinical Research and Development at the Institut für Klinische Pharmakologie Bobenheim in Grünstadt, Germany; where he was in charge of a Phase I, Clinical Unit and responsible for design, implementation and data analysis of phase I, PK/PD clinical pharmacology studies.

Teaching Activities:

Pharmaceutics

Clinical Pharmacology
Medicinal Chemistry
Nurse anesthesia

Research/Interests:

Design and analysis of safety, pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic studies in early clinical drug development

PK/PD modeling in dosing regimen optimization
Multiple university, AAPS, ACCP, ASCPT and NIH committees
Scientific expert consultant in clinical pharmacology with various pharmaceutical companies, as well as the FDA (Office of Clinical Pharmacology and Biopharmaceutics)