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Meet El Presidente

Well this is a banner day for those of us who love and support Paul Root Wolpe who you should know by now is one of the "Editors" named up above - he's Associate Editor of The American Journal of Bioethics and has since the beginning of this enterprise brought the same kind of imagination and entrepreneurship to the launch of the journal that he brings to his other pursuits.

Paul has been elected President of the American Society for Bioethics and the Humanities, the US organization for scholarly bioethics. Paul is a polymath. He helped create the discipline of Jewish bioethics. He's written in the area of genetics, reproduction, end of life, and neuroethics - and helped develop the area of neuroethics in the first place.

He was named National Bioethics Advisor to Planned Parenthood. He is such a good teacher that they sell videotapes of his classes on the Superstar Teacher network. And they love him so much at NASA that they created the position of Chief of Bioethics for him.

Paul writes a lot, both in scholarly journals and as a regular columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer, and advises numerous students of all levels. He will make an excellent president: he is generous, organized, smart, gentle and - perhaps most important for ASBH - innovative. And anyone who has spent any time with him will also tell you that he is very, very funny. I count Paul among my very best friends, and I could not be more pleased that my peers in bioethics have recognized his record of service to the field and to ASBH, and his vision for building the field. Go Paul.
- gm