Medical Ethics and History and Sociology of Science professor Jonathan Moreno was named to President-elect Barack Obama's transition team.
Moreno will serve as a co-leader for the Department of Health and Human Services review team, which will examine the department as a whole in order to provide incoming employees with necessary information.
Moreno is one of the Penn Integrates Knowledge professors and holds a joint professorship in both the School of Medicine and the School of Arts and Sciences.
Before coming to Penn, Moreno served as the director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Virginia.
He is the third member of the Penn faculty to be named to Obama's transition team.
Criminology professor Laurie Robinson was named to the Justice Department review team, and Legal Studies and Business Ethics professor Kevin Werbach is the co-leader of the Federal Communications Commission review team.
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