Meet Center Fellows: Christopher Hook, Nigel Cameron

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Christopher Hook, M.D.

Dr. Hook is a hematologist at the Mayo Clinic and the Director of Ethics Education at Mayo Graduate School of Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota. He serves as Chair of the Mayo Clinic Ethics Council, the DNA Results Committee (DNARC), the Reproductive Medicine Advisory Board, and the Transplantation Ethics Advisory Board. Dr. Hook is also a member of the Palliative Care Task Force and is a founding member of Do No Harm: The Coalition of Americans for Research Ethics. He is a frequent plenary speaker at the Center’s regional and national conferences and has authored chapters on medical futility, genetic testing and confidentiality, and gestational surrogacy in the Center’s Horizons in Bioethics book series. Dr. Hook is also a co-editor of the upcoming Center book Bioethics in the New Millennium.

Nigel Cameron, Ph.D.

Dr. Cameron is Dean of the Wilberforce Forum in Washington D.C. and is also Chair of the Center’s International Advisory Board. Having written numerous books in the area of bioethics, he is the author of The New Medicine: Life and Death After Hippocrates (1992) and of several chapters in the Center’s Horizons in Bioethics book series. Dr. Cameron served as founding editor of the international journal Ethics & Medicine and is also the editor of the Center’s book BioEngagement: Making a Christian Difference Through Bioethics Today (2000). A frequent guest commentator on network television, he has appeared on ABC Nightline, PBS Frontline, and CNN, as well as the BBC. Dr. Cameron testified at the congressional hearings on human cloning and at the Center’s 1999 Washington D.C. press conference opposing human embryonic stem cell research.