2001.11.30:Clancy Named Executive Director of National Bioethics Council

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, Nov. 30, 2001

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CLANCY NAMED EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL BIOETHICS COUNCIL

Dean Clancy, a senior policy advisor in Congress, will serve as the first executive director of President Bush's new national Bioethics Council, HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson announced today.

Clancy will oversee the administrative functions of the new council, which will advise the President on the ethical and moral implications of biomedical research and new technologies, including embryonic stem-cell research and human cloning.

President Bush created the council through a Nov. 28 executive order. The council will have up to 18 members drawn from the fields of science and medicine, law and government, philosophy and theology, and other areas of the humanities and social sciences. As part of its mission, the council may investigate and advise the President about issues related to specific biomedical technologies and research, as well as general bioethical issues such as appropriate protections for human research subjects.

Clancy, 37, previously served as a senior policy advisor for Rep. Dick Armey of Texas, specializing in health policy, Medicare, Social Security, bioethical issues, and other topics. Before joining Rep. Armey's staff in 1993, he served as a speechwriter for Housing and Urban Development Secretary Jack Kemp and as a staff writer for Vice President Dan Quayle.

Clancy graduated from Georgetown University in 1986 and received a master's degree from Columbia University in 1991. A Denver native, he now lives in Annandale, Va., with his wife, Heidi, and three children, Caitlin, Andrew and Alexander.

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