Background
Capron, Alexander Morgan was born on August 16, 1944 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Son of William Mosher and Margaret (Morgan) Capron.
Capron, Alexander Morgan was born on August 16, 1944 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Son of William Mosher and Margaret (Morgan) Capron.
Bachelor, Swarthmore College, 1966; Bachelor of Laws, Yale University, 1969; Master of Arts (honorary), University Pennsylvania, 1975.
Law clerk to presiding judge, United States Court Appeals, Washington, 1969-1970;
lecturer, research associate, Yale University, 1970-1972;
assistant professor of law, University Pennsylvania, 1972-1975;
vice dean, University of Pennsylvania, 1976;
associate professor, University of Pennsylvania, 1975-1978;
professor of law and human genetics, University of Pennsylvania, 1978-1982;
executive director, President's Common for Study of Ethical Problems in Medical and biomedical and Behavioral Research, Washington, 1980-1983;
professor of law, ethics public policy Law Center, Georgetown University, Washington, 1983-1984;
institute fellow Kennedy Institute Ethics, Georgetown University, Washington, 1983-1984;
Topping professor of law, medicine public policy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1985-1989;
University professor of law and medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, since 1989;
Henry W. Bruce professor of law, University Southern California, Los Angeles, since 1991;
co-director, Pacific Center for Health Policy and Ethics, Los Angeles, since 1990. Member board advisors American Board Internal Medicine, 1985-1995, chairman, 1991-1995;consultant National Institutes of Health, member recombinant DNA committee, 1990-1995, member subcommittee on humangene therapy, 1984-1992. Chairman Congressional biomedical Ethics Advisory Commission, 1987-1991.
Member Joint Commision on Accreditation of Healthcare Orgns., since 1994, member ethics advising committee, 1984-1985. Member National Bioethics Advisory Commission, since 1996.
Board managers Swarthmore College, 1982-1985. Board of trustees Twentieth Century Fund. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, American College Legal Medicine (honorary), Hastings Center (Institute Society, Ethics and Life Sciences, board directors).
Member Institute Medicine NAS (board directors 1985-1990), American Association of University Professors (Executive Committee Pennsylvania chapter), American Society Law, Medicineand Ethics (president 1988-1989), Swarthmore College Alumni Society (vice president 1974-1977).
Married Barbara A. Brown, Nov.9, 1969 (divorced December 1985). Married Kathleen West, March 4, 1989. Children: Jared Capron-Brown, Charles Spencer West Capron, Christopher Gordon West Capron, Andrew Morgan West Capron.