We are honored to have Professor Inmaculada de Melo Martin as a keynote speaker at our school online.
Scientific and technological advances in the areas of reproduction and genetics give us new means to shape the lives of our offspring. We now have an unprecedented ability to control not just whether and when we have children but also to create different family arrangements and decide what children we want to have. These advances thus present us with a variety of important ethical concerns surrounding the creation and alteration of human life. In this session we will offer an overview of reprogenetic technologies and examine some of the ethical questions these technologies raise.
Dr. Inmaculada de Melo-Martín is Professor of Medical Ethics at Weill Cornell Medical College—Cornell University. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Oviedo, Spain and her Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of South Florida. Dr. de Melo-Martín also did graduate work in Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Technology at the University of Valencia, Spain. She also has a M.S. in Molecular Biology from The University of Texas at San Antonio. Her research interests include Bioethics and Philosophy of Science, and she has published widely on ethical and epistemological issues related to reproductive technologies, molecular genetics, and research ethics. Dr. de Melo-Martín’s has served on the Executive Board for the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities and the American Philosophical Association Committee on Philosophy and Medicine. In 2012 she received a Gubernatorial appointment to serve on the Ethics Committee of New York Stem Cell Board–Ethics.
