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Dr. Laurie Zoloth is a professor of medical ethics and humanities, and of religion, at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. She is also the director of the Northwestern University Center for Bioethics, Science and Society, and director of the Brady Program for Ethics and Civic Life, in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern.

Dr. Zoloth is the former president of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. She served two terms on its founding board and received the Society's award for Distinguished Service to the Field in 2007. She is the chair of the Howard Hughes Bioethics Advisory Board and has served on the NASA National Advisory Council and been awarded NASA's Medal for Public Service. Dr. Zoloth earned an MA from San Francisco State University and an MA and PhD from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California.