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the Chairperson of the Compassionate Use Advisory Committee (CompAC), an independent group of internationally recognized medical experts, bioethicists and patient representatives which advises Janssen/J&J about requests for compassionate use of some of its investigational medicines.




Caplan is the recipient of many awards and honors including the McGovern Medal of the American Medical Writers Association and the Franklin Award from the City of Philadelphia. He received the Patricia Price Browne Prize in Biomedical Ethics for 2011. He was a person of the Year-2001 from USA Today. He was described as one of the ten most influential people in science by Discover magazine in 2008. He has also been honored as one of the fifty most influential people in American health care by Modern Health Care magazine, one of the ten most influential people in America in biotechnology by the National Journal, one of the ten most influential people in the ethics of biotechnology by the editors of Nature Biotechnology and one of the 100 most influential people in biotechnology by Scientific American magazine. In 2014 he was selected to receive the Public Service Award from the National Science Foundation/National Science Board which honors individuals and groups that have made substantial contributions to increasing public understanding of science and engineering in the United States.




He holds seven honorary degrees from colleges and medical schools. He is a fellow of the Hastings Center, the NY Academy of Medicine, the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, the American College of Legal Medicine and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.







Barbara K. Redman, PhD, MBE is Associate, Division of Medical Ethics, New York Langone Medical Center. She is former Dean of the Wayne State University School of Nursing and over the past decade has produced an impressive record of scholarship in research misconduct/research integrity including a contracted study for the US Office of Research Integrity. In 2014-15 she served as an Edmond J Safra Center for Ethics Network Fellow at Harvard University, studying whistleblowing in cases of research misconduct. This book proposal reflects Dr. Redman's experience in teaching research integrity to graduate students, faculty and international trainees. She has expertise in philosophical foundations of bioethics, social science empirical methods, health policy and the ethics of health care. She is the sole author of two recent books in bioethics/research ethics: The Ethics of Patient Self-Management of Chronic Disease, Springer, 2012, and Research Misconduct Policy in Biomedicine: Beyond the "Bad Apple", MIT Press, 2013.

Dr. Redman holds a PhD from the University of Minnesota, a masters in bioethics from the University of Pennsylvania and honorary doctorates from Georgetown University and the University of Colorado. She has held fellowships at The Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, Georgetown University Kennedy Institute of Ethics, and Harvard Medical School Division of Medical Ethics. Dr. Redman is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and a recipient of the University of Minnesota Regents Award.