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Advisory Committee
Our Advisory Committee represents a broad spectrum of scientists, scholars, institutional directors and Religious representatives. Our committee includes faculty from the natural and social sciences and the humanities at Virginia Commonwealth University, clinicians from the VCU Massey Cancer Center and VCU Health System, the presidents of Union/PSCE and the Baptist Theological Seminary of Richmond, the director of the Science Museum of Virginia, and Religious leaders from diverse faith traditions and interfaith coalitions.

Co-chairs
J. Brian Cassel, Ph.D.
Senior Analyst, Oncology Administration, VCU Medical Center

Mark D. Wood, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, VCU School of World Studies, Religious Studies

Committee members
Rev. Chuck Alley, Ph.D.
Rector, St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church

Jon Barton
Virginia Council of Churches

Rev. Benjamin Campbell
Pastoral Director, Richmond Hill

Deirdre Condit, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, VCU Women’s Studies Program and VCU School of Government and Public Affairs

M. Imad Damaj, Ph.D.
VCU Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, and
Chair, Virginia Muslim Coalition for Public Affairs

Lindon J. Eaves, Ph.D., D.Sc.
Distinguished Professor, VCU Department of Human Genetics and Department of Psychiatry, and Director, Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics at VCU

Tony Ellis, Ph.D.
VCU Department of Philosophy

Rev. Robin Gorsline, Ph.D.
Metropolitan Community Church

Thomas H. Graves, Ph.D., M.Div., S.T.M.
President, Baptist Theological Seminary, Richmond

Thomas F. Huff, Ph.D.
Vice Provost, VCU Life Sciences

Kenneth Kendler, M.D.
Professor, VCU Department of Psychiatry and Director, Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics at VCU

Brenda E. Lee
Student, The Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology, Virginia Union University

Laurie Lyckholm, M.D.
Hematology-Oncology, VCU Medical Center

Robert Pollack, Ph.D.
Director, Center for the Study of Science and Religion, Columbia University

John M. Quillin, M.S.G.C., M.P.H.
VCU Massey Cancer Center

Samuel K. Roberts, M.Div., Ph.D.
Union Theological Seminary/PSCE (for Louis Weeks)

Edward W. Rucker
President, Richmond Forum

Donald Smith, Ph.D.
VCU Department of Philosophy

Rev. C. Douglas Smith
Executive Director, Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy

Very Rev. Russell E. Smith, S.T.D.
Catholic Diocese of Richmond

Jack D. Spiro, Ph.D.
Director, VCU Judaic Studies

Alexander Tartaglia, M.Div.
Co-chair, Ethics Committee; Chair, Pastoral Care VCU Medical Center

Inez Tuck, R.N., Ph.D., M.B.A.
Professor and Chair, Integrative Systems, VCU School of Nursing

Louis B. Weeks, Ph.D.
President, Union Theological Seminary/PSCE

Janet Winston, Ph.D.
VCU Women’s Studies Program

Walter Witschey, Ph.D.
Director and CEO, Science Museum of Virginia

Tarynn M. Witten, Ph.D., M.S.W., F.G.S.A.
VCU Life Sciences

Everett Worthington, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, VCU Department of Psychology
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