DIRECTOR AND STAFF
ADRIENNE ASCH, PHD, MS, DIRECTOR
Adrienne is the Edward and Robin Milstein Professor of Bioethics at Yeshiva University and Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health and Family and Social Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Her work focuses on the ethical, political, psychological, and social implications of human reproduction and the family.
She has authored numerous articles and book chapters, and is the co-editor of Prenatal Testing and Disability Rights and The Double-Edged Helix: Social Implications of Genetics in a Diverse Society.
She received her doctorate in social psychology from Columbia University, was a member of the board of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, the Clinton Task Force on Health Care Reform, and the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications Policy Planning Group of the National Human Genome Research Institute. She is a board member of the Society of Jewish Ethics and the American Civil Liberties Union, a fellow at the Hastings Center, and a member of the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law.
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DAVID WASSERMAN, JD, MA, DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH
David works on issues in genetics, disability, reproduction, and research ethics. Before joining the University in 2007, he was a research scholar at the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at the University of Maryland. He has held research fellowships at Harvard and NYU, and received research support from the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Science Foundation.
Among many other publications, he co-authored Disability, Difference, Discrimination with Anita Silvers and Mary Mahowald and co-edited Quality of Life and Human Difference: Genetic Testing, Health-Care, and Disability.
OTHER STAFF MEMBERS
John Fousek
Program Director
Daniel Putnam
Research and Program Assistant
Shira Roszler
Research and Program Administrator
ADVISORY BOARD
Karen Bacon
Dean, Stern College
Saul Berman
Professor of Jewish Studies, Stern College
Yosef Blau
Mashgiach Ruchani, Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary
Jeff Blustein
Professor of Bioethics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Shalom Carmy
Professor of Jewish Studies and Philosophy, Yeshiva College
Zevulun Charlop
Dean, Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary
Sheldon Gelman
Dean, Wurzweiler School of Social Work
Michael Gill
Associate Dean, Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology
Michael Ginzberg
Dean, Sy Syms School of Business
Richard Joel
President, Yeshiva University
Norman Lamm
Chancellor, Yeshiva University
Norman Linzer
Professor of Jewish Family Social Work, Wurzweiler School of Social Work
Mort Lowengrub
Provost, Yeshiva University
Ruth Macklin
Professor of Bioethics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Paul Marantz
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Moses Pava
Professor of Business Ethics, Sy Syms School of Business
Matthew Diller
Dean, Cardozo School of Law
David Shatz
Professor of Philosophy, Stern College
Larry Siegel
Dean, Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology
Louise Silverstein
Professor of Psychology, Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology
Allen Spiegel
Dean, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
David Srolovitz
Dean, Yeshiva College
Ed Stein
Professor of Law, Cardozo School of Law
Suzanne Last Stone
Professor of Law, Director of the Program in Jewish Law and Interdisciplinary Studies, Cardozo School of Law
Asch's CV