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Dr. Caplan is currently Director of the Center for Bioethics and the Sydney D. Caplan Professor of Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He is the author or editor of 29 books and more than 500 papers in refereed journals. His most recent books are Smart Mice Not So Smart People (Rowman Littlefield, 2006) and the Penn Guide to Bioethics (Springer, 2009). Dr. Caplan has participated on a number of national and international committees, including serving as the Chair of the National Cancer Institute Biobanking Ethics Working Group; the Chair of the Advisory Committee to the United Nations on Human Cloning; the Chair of the Advisory Committee to the Department of Health and Human Services on Blood Safety and Availability; as a member of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Gulf War Illnesses; and on the Special Advisory Committee to the International Olympic Committee on
genetics and gene therapy.