Members and Staff of the Task Force on Life and the Law
Members
- Chair: Richard F. Daines, M.D.
Commissioner of Health
New York State
- Karl P. Adler, M.D.
Archbishop's Delegate for Health Care
Archdiocese of New York
- Adrienne Asch, M.S., Ph.D.
Director, Center for Ethics
Yeshiva University
- Donald P. Berens, Jr., J.D.
Former General Counsel
New York State Department of Health
- Rabbi J. David Bleich, Ph.D.
Professor of Talmud, Yeshiva University
Professor of Jewish Law and Ethics
Benjamin Cardozo School of Law
- Kathleen M. Boozang, J.D., L.L.M.
Associate Dean and Academic Director
Health Law and Policy Program
Seton Hall University School of Law
- Karen A. Butler, R.N., J.D.
Partner
Thuillez, Ford, Gold, Johnson & Butler, LLP
- Nancy Neveloff Dubler, LL.B.
Director, Division of Bioethics
Department of Epidemiology and Population Health
Montefiore Medical Center
Professor of Bioethics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
- Paul J. Edelson, M.D.
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons
Investigator, Center for Public Health Preparedness
Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
- Joseph J. Fins, M.D., F.A.C.P.
Chief, Division of Medical Ethics
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Director of Medical Ethics
New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Center
- Alan R. Fleischman, M.D.
Senior Vice President
The New York Academy of Medicine
- Rev. Francis H. Geer, M.Div.
Rector
St. Philip's Church in the Highlands
- Samuel Gorovitz, Ph.D.
Founding Director, Renée Crown University Honors Program
Professor of Philosophy
Syracuse University
- Jane Greenlaw, R.N., J.D.
Director, Division of the Medical Humanities
Co-Director, Program in Clinical Ethics
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
- Cassandra E. Henderson, M.D.
Chief of Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Our Lady of Mercy Medical Center
- Kathryn C. Meyer, J.D.
Senior Vice President, General Counsel
Continuum Health Partners, Inc.
- John D. Murnane, J.D.
Partner
Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto
- Samuel Packer, M.D.
Chairman, Department of Ophthalmology
North Shore University Hospital
- Rabbi A. James Rudin, D.D.
Director of Interreligious Affairs
The American Jewish Committee
- Barbara Shack
Health Policy Consultant
- Daniel P. Sulmasy, O.F.M., M.D., Ph.D.
Chair, The John J. Conley Department of Ethics
St. Vincent's Hospital-Manhattan
- Rogelio Thomas, M.D., M.P.P.
President
Special Care Medical Associates
- Sally T. True, J.D.
Partner
True, Walsh & Miller
Staff
- Beth E. Roxland, J.D., M.Bioethics
Acting Director
- Leah Kalm Freeman
Principal Policy Analyst
- Angela R. Star
Administrative Assistant