Robert F. Weir, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus Departments of Pediatrics and Religious Studies 1-104 Medical Education Building Iowa City, IA 52242-1190 (319) 384-4895

Graduate Education

• Princeton University

Teaching Activities

• CME Reading Retreats in Literature and Medicine

Research Interests

• Ethical issues at the beginning of life
• Ethical issues at the end of life
• Ethics and genetics
• Ethics and stored tissue samples
• Ethics and technologically assisted reproduction

Recent Publications

• Kaldjian LC, Weir RF, and Duffy, T, "A Clinician's Approach to Clinical Ethical Reasoning," Journal of General Internal Medicine 20 (March 2005): 306-11.
• Weir RF and Olick RS, The Stored Tissue Issue: Research on Stored Human Tissues in the Era of Molecular Genetics (Oxford University Press, 2004).
• Weir RF, "The Ongoing Debate About Stored Tissue Samples," in National Bioethics Advisory Commission, Research Involving Human Biological Materials: Commissioned Papers (NBAC, 2000): F1 - F21.
• Van Voorhis BJ, Grinstead D, Sparks A, and Weir RF, "Establishment of a Successful Donor Embryo Program: Medical, Ethical, and Policy Issues," Fertility and Sterility 71 (April 1999): 604-608.
• Weir RF, ed., Stored Tissue Samples: Ethical, Legal, and Public Policy Implications (University of Iowa Press, 1998).