Baruch A. Brody, Ph.D.
Baruch A. Brody, Ph.D., is the Leon Jaworski professor of biomedical ethics and director of the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine. He is also the Andrew Mellow professor of Humanities in the department of philosophy at Rice University. In 2002, he was appointed Distinguished Service professor at Baylor, the college's highest faculty honor, and was also awarded the Michael E. DeBakey Award for outstanding research.
Dr. Brody received his B.A. from Brooklyn College in 1962 and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1967. He studied at Oxford University as a Fulbright Fellow in 1965-66. He taught at M.I.T. from 1967 to 1975, and has been at Rice since 1975 and at Baylor College of Medicine since 1982.
Dr. Brody is the author and editor of 25 volumes and 150 articles and chapters. His major scholarly works are Abortion and the Sanctity of Human Life (M.I.T.: 1975), Identity and Essence (Princeton: 1981), Life and Death Decision Making (Oxford: 1988), Ethical Issues in Drug Testing, Approval and Pricing (Oxford: 1994), The Ethics of Biomedical Research: An International Perspective (Oxford: 1998), and Taking Issue (Georgetown: 2003). He is currently working on a book on Intellectual Property and Biotechnology. The first two chapters have appeared as three articles in the KIEJ in 2006-2007.
Dr. Brody has served on the DSMB (Data Safety Monitoring Board) for the AIDS Clinical Trials Group, on the NIH’s RAC (Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee), on the Protocol Review Committee for the Bone Marrow Transplant Clinical Trials Network, on the Bioethics Advisory Board of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and on the NASA Bioethics Advisory Board. He was the principal investigator for the "Ethical Issues in Emergency Research" study (funded by the NIH) and he was the head of the coordinating committee for the "Altering Nature" study (funded by the Ford Foundation). He is currently a co-investigator of the "Ethical and Methodological Standards for Trials of Invasive Therapeutic Procedures" (funded by the NIH). He has helped 11 healthcare institutions organize their ethics committees, and served for more than 15 years as the head of the ethics program at the Methodist Hospital. Finally, he has served on the national board of the American Philosophical Association, is a past president of the Society for Health and Human Values, is a fellow of the Hastings Center, and was elected in 2001 to the Institute of Medicine.
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Baruch A. Brody, Ph.D.
Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy
Baylor College of Medicine
Room 310D
One Baylor Plaza
Houston, Texas 77030
713-798-3503 (phone)
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