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Member Information
Arthur L. Caplan, Ph.D.
Emanuel and Robert Hart Professor of Bioethics
Chair, Department of Medical Ethics
Director, Center for Bioethics
Office Phone: 215-898-7136
Office Fax: 215-573-3036
Email: caplan@mail.med.upenn.edu
Website: http://www.bioethics.upenn.edu/people/?last=Caplan&first=Arthur; http://www.bioethics.upenn.edu/vaccines
Education: Ph.D., Columbia University , 1979
Keywords: Bioethics, medical ethics, vaccines, health policy
Research and/or Clinical Interests:
Ethical considerations and controversies in medicine and biomedical research.
Summary:
Dr. Caplan is the author or editor of 25 books and over 500 papers in refereed journals of medicine, science, philosophy, bioethics and health policy. He is a frequent guest and commentator on National Public Radio, CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer and many other media outlets. He writes a regular column on bioethics for MSNBC.com and lectures widely in the United States , Canada , Europe, Russia , and the Caribbean .
Dr. Caplan has served on a number of national and international committees including as the Chair of the Advisory Committee to the United Nations on Human Cloning, the Chair of the Advisory Committee to the Department of Health and Human Services on Blood Safety and Availability, a member of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Gulf War Illnesses, the special advisory committee to the International Olympic Committee on genetics and gene therapy, the American Chemistry Council and the special advisory panel to the National Institutes of Mental Health on human experimentation on vulnerable subjects. He is a member of DuPont's biotechnology advisory panel and has consulted with many corporations and consumer organizations.
In 2005, Dr. Caplan launched the Penn Center for Bioethics' Ethics of Vaccines Project, an effort to examine the many ethical challenges present throughout vaccine research, development, regulation, and implementation. He received support from the Penn CFAR for a pilot project titled "An Ethical Framework for HIV Vaccine Research."
Representative publications:
"Should HIV be Part of Routine Admission Testing," Physician's Weekly , 13, 41:1996:1
"Commentary: Prenatal HIV Testing," Journal of Women's Health , 6, 1, 1997: 128.
"Stem Cell Politics, Ethics and Medical Progress," Nature Medicine , 5,12, 1999: 1-3. (with G. Annas and S. Elias).
"The Ethical Validity of Using Nuclear Transfer in Human Transplantation," The Journal of the American Medical Association , 284, 34, 2000: 3175-79 (with R. Lanza, L. Silver and R. Green)
"Pennsylvania 's Voluntary Benefits Program: Evaluating an Innovative Proposal for Increasing Organ Donation," Health Affairs, 19, 2000: 206-11 9 (with R.A. Arnold, C. Bryce, P.A. Ubel, L. Siminoff and H. Nathan).
"Solid Organ Transplantation for HIV-Infected Patients," New England Journal of Medicine , Vol. 347, No. 4: July 25, 2002: 284-287. (with Scott Halpern and Peter Ubel).
"Is biomedical research too dangerous to pursue?," Science , 303, February 20, 2004:1142.
Ed., Health, Disease and Illness: Concepts in Medicine , Georgetown University Press, 2004 (Co-editors: J. McCartney and D. Sisti).
"Boom and bust-have we learned what we need to from the flu vaccine shortage?" Johns Hopkins
Advanced Studies in Medicine , 2005: 522-3.
"Off with their heads: The need to criminalize some forms of scientific misconduct," The Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics , Summer 2005: 345-8 (with Barbara K. Redmond).
Ed. The Case of Terri Schiavo: Ethics at the End of Life , Prometheus, 2006 (with J. McCartney and D. Sisti).
