Audrey R. Chapman is Professor of Community Medicine and Healthcare and holds the Healey Memorial Chair in Medical Ethics and Humanities at the UConn School of Medicine. She also has an adjunct appointment at the UConn School of Law and is an affiliate of the UConn Human Rights Institute. She received a Ph.D. in public law and government from Columbia University and graduate degrees in theology and ethics from New York Theological Seminary and Union Theological Seminary. She is the author, coauthor, or editor of sixteen books and more than 70 peer reviewed articles and reports. She works on ethical, legal, human rights, and regulatory issues related to health, health systems, and new health-related technologies, particularly those dealing with genetics and stem cells research and applications.