Jonathan Moreno, Ph.D.

Jonathan D. Moreno is the David and Lyn Silfen University Professor of Ethics and Professor of Medical Ethics and of History and Sociology of Science at Penn. He holds a courtesy appointment as Professor of Philosophy. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C., where he edits the magazine Science Progress. He was a member of President Barack Obama’s transition team for the Department of Health and Human Services.

Moreno is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine/National Academy of Sciences and serves on numerous National Academies committees. In 2008 he was designated a national associate of the National Research Council. He has served as a senior staff member for two presidential advisory commissions, and has given invited testimony for both houses of Congress.

Moreno has served as adviser to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, among many other organizations. He is a past president of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. Moreno has published more than 300 papers, reviews, and book chapters, and is a member of several editorial boards.