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Jonathan D. Moreno: 2015-2016 Faculty Award of Merit

caption:Jonathan D. Moreno, the David and Lyn Silfen University Professor at Penn, is the recipient of the Penn Alumni Faculty Award of Merit. This award recognizes a faculty member who has made outstanding contributions to alumni education and engagement at Penn by sharing his or her unique scholarship work with the alumni community.

Dr. Moreno, one of 17 Penn Integrates Knowledge (PIK) professors at Penn, is a professor of medical ethics & health policy, of history & sociology of science and of philosophy. His latest book is Impromptu Man: J.L. Moreno and the Origins of Psychodrama, Encounter Culture, and the Social Network (2014), which Amazon named a “#1 hot new release.”

Dr. Moreno frequently contributes to such publications as The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Huffington Post and Psychology Today, and often appears on broadcast and online media. In 2008-2009, he served as a member of President Barack Obama’s transition team. His work has been cited by Al Gore and was used in the development of the screenplay for The Bourne Legacy. His online neuroethics course drew more than 36,000 registrants in fall 2013. The American Journal of Bioethics has called him “the most interesting bioethicist of our time.”

Dr. Moreno holds a PhD from Washington University in St. Louis, was an Andrew W. Mellon post-doctoral fellow, holds an honorary doctorate from Hofstra University, and is a recipient of the Benjamin Rush Medal from the College of William and Mary Law School and the Dr. Jean Mayer Award for Global Citizenship from Tufts University.

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