Last updated on: 5/2/2012 | Author: ProCon.org

Rebecca Dresser, JD Biography

Title:
Daniel Noyes Kirby Professor of Law and Professor of Ethics in Medicine at Washington University Law School
Position:
None Found to the question "Should Euthanasia or Physician-Assisted Suicide Be Legal?"
Reasoning:

None found

Theoretical Expertise Ranking:
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Individuals with MDs, JDs, PhDs, or equivalent advanced degrees in fields relevant to end-of-life issues. Also top-level government officials (such as foreign leaders, US presidents, Founding Fathers, Supreme Court Justices, members of legislative bodies, cabinet members, military leaders, etc.) with positions relevant to end-of-life.
Involvement and Affiliations:
  • Daniel Noyes Kirby Professor of Law and Professor of Ethics in Medicine, Washington University Law School, 2001-Present
  • Member, President’s Council on Bioethics, 2002-Present
  • “At Law” Columnist, The Hastings Center Report
  • Visiting Research Scholar, University of Tokyo, June-July 2003
  • Fellow, The Hastings Center
  • Member, Ethics Committee, American Society for Reproductive Medicine, 1997-2002
  • Professor of Law and Professor of Ethics in Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, 1998-2001
  • Professor, School of Law and Center for Biomedical Ethics, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, 1991-1998
  • Fellow, Program in Ethics and the Professions, Harvard University, 1992-1993
  • Associate Professor, School of Law and Center for Biomedical Ethics, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, 1988-1991
  • Assistant Professor, Center for Ethics, Medicine and Public Issues, Baylor College of Medicine, 1983-1988
  • Bigelow Teaching Fellow, School of Law, University of Chicago, 1982-1983
  • Law Clerk to United States District Court Judge James E. Doyle
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institute of Mental Health Training Grant in Social Science Research Methods, Psychiatry Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1979-1981
  • Summer Associate, LeBoeuf, Lamb, Leiby and MacRae, New York, New York, 1978
Education:
  • JD, Harvard Law School, 1979
  • MS, Education, Indiana University, 1975
  • BA, Psychology and Sociology, Indiana University, 1973
Other:
  • None found
Quoted in:
  1. Should Terri Schiavo's Feeding Tube Have Been Removed?