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Acknowledgments This project was coordinated by Ellen Marshall, Policy Coordinator of the American College of Physicians (ACP); Joanna Weschler, Director of the Prison Project and Gara LaMarche, Associate Director of Human Rights Watch (HRW); Leigh Dingerson, Executive Director of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (NCADP); and Susannah Sirkin, Deputy Director of Physicians for Human Rights (PHR). All contributed to the research, writing and editing of the report. Janet Weiner, M.P.H., Research Associate of the ACP, was the principal writer and editor.Kim Thorburn, M.D., of the ACP Human Rights and Medical Practice Subcommittee and the PHR Board of Directors, provided invaluable advice, editorial comment and coordinated interviews of prison doctors. Ron Shansky, M.D., M.P.H, Steve Spencer, M.D., and Armond Start, M.D., M.P.H., conducted formal interviews with prison doctors. NCADP interns Sandra Hinson, Bill Wu and Dan Gritti assisted with statute research and interviews of witnesses. Lamia Matta, then associate with the Human Rights Watch Prison Project, and Michael Hintze, intern with Human Rights Watch, assisted in research on state statutes and regulations. Gregg Bloche, M.D., J.D., Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown University and consultant to PHR, was the principal researcher and writer for the section on medical ethics. Troyen Brennan, M.D., J.D., M.P.H., Professor of Law and Public Health, Harvard School of Public Health, also contributed to this section. Henry Schwarzschild, member of the NCADP Executive Board, provided invaluable advice and assisted with statute research. Jim Welsh, Medical Advisor at Amnesty International, contributed historical references and a wealth of knowledge and analysis. David Rothman, Ph.D., Director of the Center for the Study of Society and Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, provided advice on and edited the section on ethics. Lee Tucker, W. Bradford Wiley Fellow with Human Rights Watch, helped with fact checking. Anthony Levintow and Lydda Ragasa, HRW Associates, and Barbara Ayotte, PHR Program Associate provided valuable production assistance. The participants in the project also express appreciation to Quentin D. Young, M.D., immediate-past Chair, ACP Human Rights and Medical Practice Subcommittee, Dr. Christine Cassel, M.D., Chair, ACP Human Rights and Medical Practice Subcommittee and ACP Ethics Committee, and Linda Johnson White, Director, ACP, Department of Scientific Policy, for their support in thedevelopment of this report and their continuing leadership in addressing physician participation in executions.
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