Name: John Kilner

Why you should know him: Dr. Kilner is one of the leading evangelical scholars on the topic of bioethics.

Position: President and CEO of The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity; Chair for Christian Ethics and Theology and Professor of Bioethics and Contemporary Culture at Trinity International University.

Previous: Senior Associate at The Park Ridge Center for the Study of Health, Faith, and Ethics; Adjunct faculty member at Northwestern University Medical School; Associate professor of social and medical ethics at Asbury Theological Seminary; directed the ethics grand rounds program at the University of Kentucky Medical Center; Adjunct professor at the University of Kentucky; Served as hospital ethicist for St. Joseph Hospital, Lexington, KY.

Education:
B.A. in English literature,Yale University
M.Div., Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
A.M. in religious ethics, Harvard University,
Ph.D. in religious ethics (with an emphasis on bioethics) Harvard University

Areas of expertise/interest: End-of-life issues, healthcare, religious ethics

Books: Life on the Line: Ethics, Aging, Ending Patients' Lives, and Allocating Vital Resources (1992); Genetic Ethics: Do the Ends Justify the Genes? (1997); Who Lives? Who Dies?: Ethical Criteria in Patient Selection (1999); Dignity and Dying: A Christian Appraisal (2001); Does God Need Our Help?: Cloning, Assisted Suicide, & Other Challenges in Bioethics (2003)

Assessment: Since 1973, Dr. Kilner has been one of the leading voices for the evangelical perspective on bioethical issues. He spent extended periods of study and research in inner-city Boston, Kenya, and Switzerland before accepting teaching posts at Asbury Theological Seminary, the University of Kentucky, and Harvard. A frequent speaker and seminar leader, Kilner holds a unique position as the chair of the only evangelical graduate level bioethics program in the world. In July 2005, he will be transitioning from the role of President and CEO to the position of Senior Scholar at CBHD in order to spend more time on research and on expanding the bioethics program at Trinity International University.

(This is #32 in the Know Your Evangelicals series.)