Stephen G. Post, Ph.D., is Professor and Associate Director for Educational Programs, Center for Biomedical Ethics, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, and also serves as a Senior Research Scholar in the Becket Institute at St. Hugh’s College, Oxford University. He received his doctorate in religious ethics and moral philosophy from the University of Chicago Divinity School (1983), where he was an elected University Fellow and Research Fellow in the Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion. In 1995, he completed his work as associate editor of the five-volume Encyclopedia of Bioethics, of which Warren T. Reich, Ph.D. was editor-in-chief (New York: Macmillan Publishing Co.: Simon & Schuster, 1995). He was editor of the four-volume illustrated reference work, Bioethics for Students: How Do We Know What’s Right? Issues in Medicine, Animal Rights, and the Environment (New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 1999) and the author of The Moral Challenge of Alzheimer Disease: Ethical Issues from Diagnosis to Dying (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000, rev. ed.). Currently, he is ethics editor for the journal Alzheimer Disease & Associated Disorders and advisory editor for ethics of the four-volume Encyclopedia of Aging (Macmillan). He is a member of the Medical and Scientific Advisory Panel of Alzheimer’s Disease International and serves on the National Ethics Advisory Board for the US Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders Association, whose national board awarded him a distinguished service recognition in 1998. Dr. Post received the Langston Service Award for his contribution to the lives of family caregivers in Greater Cleveland and is also a member of the ethics committee of the American Geriatrics Society.