Dr. Kass researches bioethics, ethics, philosophy, marriage, family, and social mores. He was chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics, which has released Human Cloning and Human Dignity (2002) and Beyond Therapy (2003).

Professional Experience:

• Chairman, President's Council on Bioethics, 2001- 2005.

• W. H. Brady, Jr., Distinguished Fellow, American Enterprise Institute, 1991-1992, 1998-1999.

• Senior fellow, MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, The University of Chicago, 1991-2001.

• Senior fellow and associate director, John M. Olin Center for Inquiry into the Theory and Practice of Democracy, The University of Chicago, 1986-2001.

• Member, vice-chairman, and committee chairman, National Council on the Humanities/National Endowment for the Humanities, 1984-1991.

• Professor, The College and the Committee on Social Thought, The University of Chicago, 1976-2001.

• Research professor in bioethics, The Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, 1974-1976.

• Tutor, St. John's College, 1972-1976.

• Executive secretary, Committee on the Life Sciences and Social Policy, National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences, 1970-1972.

• Staff fellow, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases, National Institutes of Health, 1967-1970.

• Surgeon, United States Public Health Service, 1967-1969.

• Intern, Beth Israel Hospital, 1962-1963.

Education:

• Ph.D, biochemistry, Harvard University.

• M.D., honors, University of Chicago.

• B.S., biology, honors, University of Chicago.