Alexander M. Capron - Panelist
University Professor and Scott H. Bice Chair in Healthcare Law, Policy and Ethics, USC Gould School of Law

Alexander M. Capron is a University Professor at the University of Southern California, where he occupies the Scott H. Bice Chair in Healthcare Law, Policy and Ethics at the Gould School of Law, is a Professor of Medicine and Law at the Keck School of Medicine, and co-directs USC's Pacific Center for Health Policy and Ethics. He previously taught at Yale, Georgetown, and the University of Pennsylvania, and was Director of Ethics, Trade, Human Rights and Health Law at the World Health Organization (2002-06), and Executive Director of the President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research (1979-83), whose report on Defining Death included the Uniform Determination of Death Act.