Paul Root Wolpe (Emory University) is the Raymond F. Schinazi Distinguished Research Chair in Jewish Bioethics and Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Bioethics in the Emory School of Medicine, professor of religion and adjunct professor of sociology, and director of the Emory Center for Ethics. A nationally recognized intellectual leader in bioethics, Wolpe holds a Ph.D. in medical sociology from Yale University and was at the University of Pennsylvania until 2008. With an intellectual focus on the role of belief and ideology in medicine and science, Wolpe is considered a founder of the field of neuroethics. He writes prolifically on emerging technologies, including genetic engineering, reproductive technologies, nanotechnology and prosthetics, and his article, “Religious responses to neuroscientific questions” (in Neuroethics: Defining the Issues in Theory, Practice, and Policy, 2006), is considered the definitive article on the religious questions raised by advances in neuroscience to date. A past president of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, Wolpe is a co-editor of the American Journal of Bioethics and serves on the editorial boards of more than a dozen professional journals in medicine and ethics.