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Paul Root Wolpe

|birth_place = Charleston, South Carolina |image = |caption = Wolpe in 2017 |alma_mater = University of Pennsylvania
Yale University |occupation = Sociologist, bioethicist }} Paul Root Wolpe (born February 26, 1957), is an American sociologist and bioethicist. He is the Raymond F. Schinazi Distinguished Research Chair in Jewish Bioethics and a professor at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.

Wolpe served for 15 years as the Bioethicist for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). He was Co-Editor of the American Journal of Bioethics (AJOB), and was the long-time Editor-In-Chief of AJOB Neuroscience, the official Journal of the International Neuroethics Society (INS). Wolpe was also a founder and a member of the board of directors Executive Committee of the INS. He was the first National Bioethics Advisor to Planned Parenthood Federation of America. He is the Past President of the Association of Bioethics Program Directors, past President of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, a Fellow of The Hastings Center, and a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, the country’s oldest medical society. He received an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the American Jewish University in 2019.

After serving as the Director of the Emory University Center for Ethics for 16 years, Wolpe stepped down on June 1, 2024, to begin building a new Center for the University, tentatively titled the Emory Center for Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation (PACT)

He is the brother of David Wolpe. Provided by Wikipedia