Background
Wolpe, Paul Root was born on February 26, 1957 in Charleston, Sc. Son of Gerald Isaac Wolpe and Elaine Ring Wolpe.
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Wolpe, Paul Root was born on February 26, 1957 in Charleston, Sc. Son of Gerald Isaac Wolpe and Elaine Ring Wolpe.
Wolpe completed his undergraduate degree in the sociology and psychology of religion at the University of Pennsylvania.
He is the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Bioethics, the Raymond F. Schinazi Distinguished Research Chair in Jewish Bioethics, a Professor in the Departments of Medicine, Pediatrics, and Sociology, and the Director of the Center for Ethics at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Wolpe was the first Chief of Bioethics for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). He was Company-Editor of the American Journal of Bioethics (AJOB), and is Editor-In-Chief of AJOB Neuroscience, the official Journal of the International Neuroethics Society (INS).
Wolpe is a past President of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH), a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, a Fellow of the Hastings Center, and was the first National Bioethics Advisor to Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
Wolpe earned an Master of Arts, Master of Philisophy, and Ph. Doctorate from Yale University.
Wolpe moved to Emory University in the summer of 2008 from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was on the faculty for over 20 years in the Departments of Psychiatry, Sociology, and Medical Ethics. He was a Senior Fellow of Penn’s Center for Bioethics where he directed the Scattergood Program for the Applied Ethics of Behavioral Health and the Program in Psychiatry and Ethics at the School of Medicine.
Wolpe is also a member of the Board of Directors Executive Committee of the INS.
Married Valerie Hope Root, September 2, 1984. Children: Ariel Lilianne Root, Kendra Rachel Root.