Karen Gervais
Karen Gervais, PhD, is the Director of the Minnesota Center for Health Care Ethics. She received her BA from Oberlin College and her PhD from the University of Minnesota in philosophy. She has been Coordinator of the Minnesota Network for Institutional Ethics Committees and Center Associate of the Center for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Minnesota. Karen has held a wide variety of visiting professorships and has written and lectured extensively on death and dying, advance directives, health care reform and resource allocation. In 1987, she published Redefining Death and was a co-author of the Use of Human Fetal Tissue: Scientific, Ethical and Policy Concerns in 1990. A book she co-edited, Ethical Challenges in Managed Care: A Casebook, was also published in January 1990.

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