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Board of Directors

Debra Budiani-Saberi, Ph.D.

Executive Director and Founder

Visiting Research Associate, Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania

Debra Budiani-Saberi, Ph.D. is a Medical Anthropologist, the Executive Director and Founder of the Coalition for Organ-Failure Solutions and Visiting Research Associate Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania.

She has conducted extensive research related to organ trafficking beginning in 1999 as a part of her study on refugee health. Her work has included an analysis of key stakeholders and actors involved in the organ trade including victims, recipients, medical professionals, religious clerics, laboratories, and the state. She has conducted extensive follow-up studies on health, economic, social and psychological consequences and, with the COFS team, established COFS prevention and outreach programs. She has provided consultation on organ trafficking to the World Health Organization, the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and has worked in alliance with various medical and civil society organizations to combat the organ trade. She has been an invited lecturer in numerous universities in the U.S., Europe, the Middle East and Asia, has published in medical and social science journals and appeared on numerous radio and television programs including the Wall Street Journal, Al Jazeera (English and Arabic), CBS, Bloomberg News, British Medical Journal News, Al-Ahram and China Public Radio.

Dr. Budiani-Saberi has also worked more broadly on health and human rights in various parts of the Middle East and Northeast Africa (Egypt, Eritrea, Morocco, Somalia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates) as well as in India.

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Renée C. Fox, Ph.D.

Annenberg Professor Emerita of the Social Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania and Senior Fellow Emerita of the Center for Bioethics

A summa cum laude graduate of Smith College , she holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University , where she studied in the Department of Social Relations. Her major teaching and research interests – sociology of medicine, medical research, medical education, and medical ethics – have involved her in first-hand participant observation-based studies in Continental Europe (particularly Belgium), in Central Africa (especially the Democratic Republic of the Congo, formerly Zaire), and in the People’s Republic of China, as well as in the United States. Her best-known books are Experiment Perilous: Physicians and Patients Facing the Unknown; In the Belgian Château: The Spirit and Culture of a European Society in an Age of Change; The Courage to Fail: A Social View of Organ Transplantation and Dialysis; and Spare Parts: Organ Replacement in American Society (the last two of which were coauthored with medical historian Judith P.Swazey). She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the Institute of Medicine , and the recipient of nine honorary degrees. In 1995, the Belgian Government named her Chevalier of the Order of Leopold II.

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Deborah Golden, J.D.

Secretary

DC Prisoners’s Legal Services

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Megan Plyler, Ph.D.

Treasurer

Department of Anthropology, University of Maryland

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Advisory Council

Arthur Caplan, Ph.D.

Director, Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania

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Gabriel Danovitch, M.D.

Director, Kidney and Kidney-Pancreas Transplantation, Renal Transplant Service, UCLA Medical Cente

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Samer El-Kamary, M.D.

University of Maryland – Regional Program Specialist

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Hossam Fadel, M.D.

Representative from the Islamic Medical Association of North America (IMANA)

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Azza M. Karam, Ph.D.

Senior Policy Research Advisor, Regional Bureau for Arab States, United Nations Development Program (UNDP)

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Jok Madut Jok, Ph.D.

Professor of (Medical) Anthropology, Loyola Marymount

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Abderrahim Sabir

Executive Director, Partners in Human Rights (Headquarters: Casablanca, Morocco)

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Othman Shibly, DDS, M.S.

International Education and Programs Associate Director, Center for Clinical Dental Studies University at Buffalo; Scholar of Islamic Law Damascus University

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