Laurie Zoloth is the Margaret E. Burton Professor of Religion and Ethics at the University of Chicago. She has been the dean of the Divinity School, president of the American Academy of Religion and the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, a cofounder of the Society for Jewish Ethics, and founding chair of the HHMI Bioethics Board. She is a fellow at the Hastings Center. Her books include Health Care and the Ethics of Encounter (1999) and Second Texts and Second Opinions: Essays Toward a Jewish Bioethics (2022).