Glenn McGee
Glenn Mcgee
Glenn McGee is currently the director of the Alden March Bioethics Institute, located in Albany, New York, as well as a Professor of Medicine at Albany Medical College. He is also the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Bioethics, a multidisciplinary, academic journal with the largest circulation of any other bioethics-related publication.
He has authored four texts since 2000; The Perfect Baby: A Pragmatic Approach to Genetics, Beyond Genetics, Who Owns Life, and Pragmatic Bioethics: A New Theory of Bioethics. He acts as a regular columnist for Hearst News Service as well as The Scientist. He has acted as editor for each of the four editions of The Human Cloning Debate and all fifteen volumes of the MIT Press' Basic Bioethics book series. He serves on the following editoral boards: World Association of Medical Editors, the Council of Editors of Learned Journals and the Council of Science Editors, Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, Law & the Human Genome Review, Cambridge Quarterly in Healthcare Ethics, New Genetics and Society, Human Reproduction and Genetics, Stem Cells, Bioethics, Politics and the Life Sciences, The New Review of Bioethics, Pragmatism and American Philosophy, Christian Bioethics, Contemporary Pragmatism, Accountability in Research and The Scientist.
He has served on the boards of Planned Parenthood Federation of American, the International Bioethics Organization, National Advisory Board on Ethics in Reproduction, Advanced Cell Technology, the American Bar Association, Evan Donaldson Adoption Institute and Juvenile Diabetes Foundation Research Institute. Previously, he was the Associate Director for Education at the University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics.