Bioethics Expert David Magnus to Speak as Part of Distinguished Speakers Series

The Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences Division of Math, Science, and Technology will welcome bioethics expert David Magnus, Ph.D., as part of the college’s Distinguished Speakers Series. Magnus will present "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly in Contemporary Biomedical Technology," corresponding to the academic theme for 2009–2010, “Good and Evil.” The event will take place on Nov. 12 from 7 to 8:30 p.m., in the Miniaci Performing Arts Center.

An associate professor of pediatrics, medicine, and philosophy at Stanford University, Magnus is the director of the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics and co-chair of the ethics committee at the Stanford Health Center. He also is the director of the Scholarly Concentration in Biomedical Ethics and Medical Humanities in the School of Medicine.

Magnus is the principal editor of a 2002 collection of essays titled, Who Owns Life? He is associate editor of the American Journal of Bioethics, the top journal in the bioethics field. He has published in leading journals such as Science, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Reports Stem Cells, and the British Medical Journal, and he has more than 100 publications on diverse topics such as genetics-genomics, biotechnology, stem-cell research, organ transplantation, research ethics, and clinical ethics.

This Distinguished Speakers Series event is free and open to the public; however, tickets are required for admission. Tickets are now available in the college’s Office of the Dean, located in the Mailman-Hollywood Building, second floor. For more information, visit www.fcas.nova.edu/articles/dss/davidmagnus.