Session 1: Stem Cell Research Update

Hans Robert Scholer, Ph.D.
Director, Cell and Developmental Biology
Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine

Session 2:   Stem Cell Research Update and Alternative Sources of Pluripotent Stem Cells (May 2005)

Council Discussion

Session 3: Overview: Genetics Research and Clinical Applications

Robert L. Nussbaum, M.D.
Holly Smith Distinguished Professor of Medicine
Chief, Medical Genetics
University of California, San Francisco

Session 4: Overview: Genetic Ethics and Public Policy

Kathy Hudson, Ph.D.
Director, Genetics and Public Policy Center
Johns Hopkins University

Session 5: Organ Procurement, Transplantation and Allocation: Policy Options

Council Discussion

Session 6: The Ethics of Health Care

Norman Daniels, Ph.D.
Mary B. Saltonstall Professor of Population Ethics and Professor of Ethics and Population Health
Department of Population and International Health
Harvard School of Public Health