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Arthur Caplan is the Emmanuel and Robert Hart Professor of Bioethics, Chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and the Director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests are transplantation research ethics, genetics, reproductive technologies, health policy, and general bioethics. Prior to joining U-Penn, Caplan taught at the University of Minnesota, the University of Pittsburgh, and Columbia University, and was Associate Director of the Hastings Center. He is the author/editor of twenty-five books and more than 500 papers. He writes a regular column for MSNBC.com, and is a frequent guest and commentator for major broadcast and print media outlets. Among his many appointments are chair of the Advisory Committee to the United Nations on Human Cloning and member of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Gulf War Illnesses. Caplan is the recipient of many awards including Person of the Year-2001 from USA Today, and one of the fifty most influential people in American Health Care by Modern Health Care magazine. Caplan earned his Ph.D. at Columbia University in the history and philosophy of science.