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What Sorts Network Team Nicholas Agar Ron Amundson Rachel Ankeny Adrienne Asch Michael Bach Jon Beckwith Ingo Brigandt Teresa Burke Susan Campbell Sarah Carter Timothy Caulfield Gabriella Coleman Lennard Davis Susan Dodds Ian Dowbiggin Erika Dyck James Elkins Carl Elliott Nicola Fairbrother Joanne Faulkner Christine Ferguson Glenn Griener Jana Grekul Nora Groce Nancy Hansen Michael Hauskeller Cressida Heyes John-Paul Himka Huahima Heidi Janz Amy Kaler Ian Kerr Eva Kittay Lene Koch Jeff Kochan Harvey Krahn Rebecca Kukla Mianna Lotz Michael Lounsbury Judy Lytton Catriona MacKenzie Claudia Malacrida Ravi Malhotra Julie Maybee Carolyn McLeod Jeff McMahan Masahiro Morioka Leilani Muir Stuart Newman Melanie Panitch Erik Parens Geoffrey Reaume Jason Scott Robert Anita Silvers Dick Sobsey Edward Stein Nick Supina III John Sutton Shelley Tremain Douglas Wahlsten David Wasserman Cameron Wild Pamela Willoughby Robert A. Wilson (team organizer) Gregor Wolbring

Dr. Gregor Wolbring

Dr Wolbring is an Assistant Professor, University of Calgary, Faculty of Medicine, Dept. of Community Health Sciences,Program in Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies; Part Time Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, Canada; Founding Member and Distinguished Scholar, Center for Nanotechnology in Society at Arizona State University, USA; Adjunct Faculty Critical Disability Studies York University Canada; Member Review Board of the journal Review in Disability Studies; Member International Editorial Advisory Board of the journal Studies in Ethics, Law and Technology;Member Editorial Review Board of the International Journal of Nanotechnology and Molecular Computation (IJNMC).

Between 1998-2009 he wrote over 20 book chapters 34 peer-reviewed article; 70 non peer-reviewed article and gave over 230 lectures. His interests cover Ability and ableism ethics and governance; History of thalidomide and thalidomiders; Disability Studies; Social, ethical, legal, economic, environmental, cultural and governance issues of new, emerging and converging sciences and technologies (S&T) such as nanoscale S&T, molecular manufacturing, aging, longevity and immortality research, cognitive sciences, neuromorphic engineering, genetics, synthetic biology, governance of bodily enhancement S&T, in vitro meat, artificial intelligence and robotics; impact of S&T on: marginalized populations especially disabled people; Sports; human security, human right, personhood, sentient rights; concept of disability impairment, ableism and transhumanism; models and determinants of health; global health, tele-health, health- (technology assessment, law, care and policies); medical anthropology; foresight studies, history, bioethics issues, and biochemistry.

Sample article list:

• http://www.bioethicsanddisability.org/articles.htm ;
• Ableism and Ability Ethics and Governance blog: http://ableism.wordpress.com; 
• Biweekly column on new and emerging science and technology “The Choice is Yours”:  http://www.innovationwatch.com/commentary_choiceisyours.htm;
• Nano Bio Info Cogno Synbio Blog: http://wolbring.wordpress.com/;
• He also contributes also the What Sorts of People blog: http://whatsortsofpeople.wordpress.com/.
• Full CV here http://www.bioethicsanddisability.org/cv.html