C. Christopher Hook M.D.
Dr. Hook is the director of Ethics Education for Internal Medicine Residency Program at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota. In this capacity, he conducts ethics rounds with internal medicine services. He also serves as a consultant in the Special Coagulation Laboratory, the Division of Hematology and Internal Medicine, and Division of Medical Oncology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester. Dr. Hook’s interest in medical ethics is evidenced by his extensive involvement in this area. He is a member of the Institutional Review Board of the Mayo Clinic for which he chaired a task force to create an institutional policy for the conduct of genetic research. He is the founder and director of the Hospital Consultation Service for the Rochester campus. Outside Mayo Clinic, he serves on the combined Hospital Ethics Committee for Saint Mary’s Hospital and Rochester Methodist Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota. Additionally, he serves as a member of the International Advisory Board of the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity and the Ethics Commission of the Christian Medical and Dental Society. Dr. Hook is often called upon as a conference speaker to speak on bioethics issues such as end-of-life issues and physician-assisted death.
Scott E. Daniels Ph.D.
Dr. Daniels is a senior executive in the Virginia Department of Health. He is in charge of developing oversight policies to insure quality care among the state’s managed care organizations. During the national health care reform debate, he served as the director of the Ethics and Health Policy Program at the Family Research Council in Washington, D.C. In that capacity, he contributed to the debate by developing econometric models to study the family impacts of employer-mandated health care proposed by Pres. Clinton. Dr. Daniels also served as the deputy director for health policy on the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources and, additionally, provided staff support for Sen. Orrin Hatch on the Senate Finance Committee. His legislative involvement included matters pertaining to Medicaid man-aged care, family issues, and precursor policies to welfare reform. Most notable, however, was his policy research on the feasibility of using tissue from spontaneous abortions and ectopic pregnancies for fetal tissue research. Later, Pres. Bush relied on his policy research in creating fetal tissue banks as an alternative to procuring tissue from induced abortions for biomedical research. Dr. Daniels’ current research interests include, among other things, the ethical issues surrounding the emerging system of managed care.