R. Alta Charo is a professor of law and medical ethics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where she is on the faculty of the law school and the medical school's program in medical ethics. She has served on the University of Wisconsin Hospital's Clinical Ethics Committee, the University's Institutional Review Board for the protection of human subjects in medical research, and the University's Bioethics Advisory Committee. Professor Charo serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics, Cloning: Science and Policy, and the Monash Bioethics Review. From 1996-2001 she served on the Presidential National Bioethics Advisory Commission.