Kelvin Brockbank, Ph.D., President and Chief Science Officer, Cell and Tissue Systems, Inc. and visiting faculty at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is currently best known as the inventor of the storage and transportation methods used for most of the cryopreserved allograft heart valves, blood vessels, ligaments and meniscal tissues implanted in the U.S.

Richard N. Pierson III, M.D., Professor of Surgery, University of Maryland, Director, Surgical Care Clinical Center, VA Maryland Health Care System. He is the immediate past-president of the International Xenotransplantation Association. His research program is funded by NIH and VA mechanisms to evaluate tolerance induction approaches for heart allografts and heart and lung xenograft rejection mechanisms in translational models.

Robert Sade, M.D., Professor of Surgery and Director of the Institute of Human Values in Health Care at the Medical University of South Carolina and Medical Director, LifePoint, Inc. He chairs the Ethics Committee of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, chairs the Standards and Ethics Committee of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, and serves on the ethics committees of both the United Network for Organ Sharing and the Association of Organ Procurement Organizations.

Richard Swaja, Ph.D., Professor and Director, South Carolina Bioengineering Alliance (SCBA), CoEE Endowed Chair in Regenerative Medicine at MUSC, Professor and Associate Chair of Bioengineering at Clemson University, Director of the Clemson – Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) Joint Bioengineering Program, and also holds professorships in Cell Biology and Anatomy at MUSC and in Chemical Engineering at the University of South Carolina.

Stephen P. Williams, Esq., Special Counsel, with Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A. in Greenville, SC. Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America–Healthcare Law, he is attorney to the state’s largest tertiary-care hospital, Greenville Hospital System. Mr. Williams has more than a decade of experience as senior vice president and general counsel to the South Carolina Medical Association.

Dr. Daniel Wueste, Director
Rutland Institute for Ethics, Clemson University

Daniel E. Wueste is director of the Robert J. Rutland Institute for Ethics at Clemson University.  His primary research interests are in legal philosophy and practical and professional ethics. His work has appeared in various journals including Cornell Law Review, Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, the Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, and Dimensions in Critical Care Nursing. He is an ex officio member of the Advisory Council of the Center for Academic Integrity and a member of the editorial board of the International Journal for Educational Integrity, the journal of the Asia Pacific Forum on Educational Integrity. Wueste is president of the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum.

Linda Gallicchio, Event Coordinator
Rutland Institute for Ethics, Clemson University

Linda M. Gallicchio joined the Robert J. Rutland Institute for Ethics at Clemson University in Fall 2007 as associate director for business outreach. Gallicchio’s focus is to build relationships and collaborations with businesses, the professions, chambers of commerce, civic organizations, school districts and government. She is working to coordinate multidisciplinary teams at Clemson that will partner across the above groups on projects and programs to reach as many as possible with lessons/messages/discussions about ethics, critical thinking and effective decision making. She will also capitalize on attracting speakers to campus and creating opportunities to bring those same speakers out to the communities.

Dr. Kelvin Brockbank, Cell and Tissue Systems, Inc.
Dr. Robert Sade, Institute of Human Values in Health Care at MUSC
Dr. Richard Swaja, South Carolina Bioengineering Alliance
Dr. Daniel Wueste, Rutland Institute for Ethics at Clemson University

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