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Leigh Morgan

Leigh Morgan is CEO of Imaginal Leadership Strategies, a strategic advisory firm serving clients in life sciences, health care, tech, higher education, and philanthropy. She is immediate past board chair...
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Mary Beth Quaranta Morrissey

Mary Beth Quaranta Morrissey is a nationally recognized healthcare attorney and  researcher. Dr. Morrissey concentrates her research in gerontological health and social work and in phenomenological psychology. She studies chronic...
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Vardit Ravitsky

Vardit Ravitsky is President and CEO of the Hastings Center for Bioethics. She is a Senior Lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Previously, she was...
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Aseem R. Shukla

Aseem R. Shukla is the Chief of Pediatric Urology at Cohen’s Children Hospital, System Vice President of the Pediatric Urology Service, and Director of Pediatric Global Services for Northwell Health. He...
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Sheila Hopkins

Sheila Hopkins is a legal executive with over 20 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, most recently serving as Chief Legal Officer at Norgine BV, having lived and practiced...
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Frank C. Schuller

Dr. Frank C. Schuller has been undertaking research for the past several years on the implementation of clinical AI with the Jameel Clinic for Machine Learning in Health at MIT....
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Insoo Hyun

Insoo Hyun, PhD, is Professor in the Centre for Biomedical Ethics at the National University of Singapore School of Medicine. He has held several appointments at Harvard Medical School, where...
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Julia Kolak

Julia Kolak works at the intersection of the philosophy of medicine and bioethics, with a focus on the conceptual frameworks underlying disease identification and classification, and their impact on medical...
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Vivian Steinberger

Vivian Steinberger joined The Hastings Center for Bioethics as the senior accountant in 2025. She has more than a decade of experience in finance and accounting. Her background spans a...
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Richa Venkatraman

Richa joined The Hastings Center for Bioethics in 2025. She graduated from Arizona State University in 2022 with a Master of Science in Biology and Society. Her master’s thesis explored...
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Patrick T. Smith

Patrick T. Smith, PhD, is an associate research professor of theological ethics and bioethics at Duke University Divinity School and an associate professor in population health sciences at Duke University...
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Louise P. King

Louise P. King is the director of reproductive bioethics at the Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics. She is an assistant professor of obstetrics gynecology, and reproductive medicine and has...
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Faith Wershba

Faith joined The Hastings Center for Bioethics in 2024. She graduated from the University of Toronto in 2023 with a double major in human biology and immunology and a minor...
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Reed V. Tuckson

Reed V. Tuckson is a co-convener of the Coalition for Trust in Health and Science, which is dedicated to bringing together the entire health-related ecosystem to address mistrust and misinformation....
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Chelsea Lopez

Chelsea joined The Hastings Center for Bioethics in 2024 in a new position in which she helps manage all aspects of fundraising, communications, and public engagement. She spent nearly 10 years...
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Emily Sanders

Emily Sanders joined The Hastings Center for Bioethics as grants manager in April 2024. She spent approximately nine years as dean of strategic integrations and initiatives at Madison Area Technical...
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Briana Lopez-Patino

Briana Lopez-Patino joined The Hastings Center in August 2023. She received her BA from Binghamton University with a major in philosophy. She was a research assistant in the Human Sexualities...
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Faith E. Fletcher

Dr. Faith Fletcher is an Associate Professor in the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine and a Hastings Center Fellow. She currently serves as Chair...
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Virginia A. Brown

Virginia A. Brown is a research scholar in social justice and population health. She joined The Hastings Center for Bioethics in September 2023 from the University of Texas at Austin...
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Ellen Jewett

Ellen Jewett is managing partner and founder of Canoe Point Capital, LLC, an investment firm focused on early-stage social ventures. Jewett serves on the board of directors of JetBlue Airways...
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Sana Baban

Sana Baban joined The Hastings Center in June 2023. She received her MBE from Harvard Medical School and BA in communication sciences and disorders from the University of South Florida.During...
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Vardit Ravitsky

Vardit Ravitsky is President and CEO of the Hastings Center for Bioethics, an independent, nonpartisan bioethics research institute that is among the most prestigious bioethics and health policy institutes in...
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Stacey Lane

Stacey Lane is a member of the board of trustees of Montefiore Hospital and of Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx. She is also a member of the...
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Bonnie Steinbock  

Professor emeritus of philosophy, University at Albany/State University of New York
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Harold T. Shapiro

Princeton University
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Cynda Hylton Rushton

Anne & George L. Bunting Professor of Clinical Ethics, Nursing & PediatricsJohns Hopkins University Berman Institute of Bioethics and School of Nursing
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William L. Roper

Emeritus Professor of Medicine and Public Health, UNC – Chapel Hill
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Eve Hart Rice

Co-President, Rice Family Foundation
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Robert A. Pearlman

Robert A. Pearlman, MD, MPH, is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Medicine at the University of Washington and a Hastings Center Fellow.
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Michael Patterson

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Larry I. Palmer 

Professor of Law Emeritus, Cornell University
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Michele Moody-Adams   

Joseph Straus Professor of Political Philosophy and Legal Theory at Columbia University
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Robert Michels

Walsh McDermott University Professor of Medicine, and University Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine       
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Richard L. Menschel   

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Ruth Macklin

Distinguished University Professor Emerita, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
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Geoffrey R. Hoguet

GRH Holdings, LLC
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Ann Dudley Goldblatt    

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Christopher Getman    

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Francis Hartley Geer

The Reverend  Rector, St. Philip’s Church in the Highlands, 1987-2018, Member, New York State Task Force for Life and the Law, 1995-present
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Alan R. Fleischman

Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Children’s Hospital at Montefiore
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Rebecca Dresser

Washington University in St. Louis
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Nancy W. Dickey 

Texas A&M University School of Medicine, American Medical Association
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Marion Danis

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Irene Crowe     

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Edgar Cheng

The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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Alexander Morgan Capron   

University Professor Emeritus, Scott H. Bice Professor Emeritus of Healthcare Law, Policy, and Ethics, Professor Emeritus of Law and Medicine, University of Southern California
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Dominique Alice Browning

Vice President, Environmental Defense Fund, Director and Co-Founder, Moms Clean Air Force
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Sissela Bok

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Joshua Boger

Founder & CEO (former) – Vertex Pharmaceutical Incorporated, Chair Emeritus – Harvard Medical School Board of Fellows, Chair Emeritus – Network for Excellence in Health Innovation (NEHI)
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David Baltimore

President Emeritus and Professor, California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
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Liza Bailey

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D.J. (Jan) Baker

Partner, Latham & Watkins, LLP (ret)
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Anita L. Allen

Henry R. Silverman Professor Law and Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania, National Academy of Medicine, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society
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Thomas H. Murray

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David Roscoe

Financial Executive:  J.P. Morgan, Bridge Information Systems, Riskmetrics GroupCurrent corporate boards: CboeEquity Options, Futures Exchanges; Modern Bank
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Harold Edgar

Julius Silver Professor of Law, Science and Technology, Emeritus – Columbia Law School, Professor of Law, Emeritus, Columbia Law School, Founding Fellow, The Hastings Center
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Amrit Ray

Amrit Ray is a physician-researcher and a biopharmaceutical industry R&D executive. He is passionate about advancing medical breakthroughs and championing health care access for patients. Amrit is an independent board...
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Dina Dublon

Dina Dublon is a board member of PepsiCo, T. Rowe Price, and Motive Capital Corp II and serves on the independent audit quality committee of Ernst & Young. She previously...
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Dara Richardson-Heron

Richardson-Heron is a former Fortune 100 corporate executive, board director, physician, and public speaker with more than 25 years of leadership excellence in health care and the corporate, government, and...
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Harvey Motulsky

After a decade of pharmacology research at University of California, San Diego, he founded GraphPad Software. Hundreds of thousands of scientists now use GraphPad Prism to graph and analyze data and...
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Darrell G. Kirch

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Robbie Huffines

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Rosemarie Garland-Thomson

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson is a disability justice and culture thought leader, bioethicist, educator, and humanities scholar. She consults on many academic and bioethics projects, gives frequent lectures, presentations, and media interviews,...
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Ryan Sauder

Ryan Sauder joined The Hastings Center for Bioethics in 2020 as chief advancement officer and became chief strategy and advancement officer in 2024. Working with a talented team, he oversees...
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Bethany Brumbaugh

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Julie Chibbaro

Julie Chibbaro joined The Hastings Center for Bioethics in 2019 as a staff editor and was promoted to Managing Editor of Ethics & Human Research in 2024. She is a...
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John Usdan

For the past 35 years, Usdan has grown the company his grandfather started in 1925, and built an integrated management, investment, and development platform. He has expanded Midwood Investment and...
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Carol O’Reilly

Carol O’Reilly is the finance assistant at The Hastings Center for Bioethics.
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Bradford H. Gray

Gray is senior fellow emeritus at the Urban Institute and editor emeritus of The Milbank Quarterly, which he edited for 13 years. Before coming to the Urban Institute in 2004,...
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Peter Canellos

Mr. Canellos is Of Counsel at the New York law firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. He is a graduate of Columbia University, where he earned his bachelor’s degree...
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Eli Y. Adashi

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Wendy Chung

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Theodore J. Stahl

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Suzanne Baker

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Stephen A. Oxman

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Stacey Lane

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Sissela Bok

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Marc Nivet

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John Usdan

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Jean Margo Reid

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James P. Evans

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James E. Stahl

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Helen Darling

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Harold T. Shapiro

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Harold S. H. Edgar

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Gretchen Dykstra

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Frederic C. Rich

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Carol Greider

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Bradford H. Gray

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Andrew Solomon

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Alexander (Sandy) Kemper

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Shonni Silverberg

Dr. Silverberg is a Professor in the Department of Medicine at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. She graduated from Cornell University Medical College and completed Internal Medicine...
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Adriane Fugh-Berman

Adriane Fugh-Berman, M.D., is the director of PharmedOut, a Georgetown University Medical Center project that advances evidence- based prescribing and educates health care professionals about pharmaceutical marketing practices.
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Alessandra Hirsch

Alessandra Hirsch, M.S., is the project manager at PharmedOut, a Georgetown University Medical Center project that advances evidence- based prescribing and educates health care professionals about pharmaceutical marketing practices.
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Rebecca Holliman

Rebecca Holliman is a graduate student in Biomedical Science Policy at Georgetown and a volunteer staff member at PharmedOut.
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Timothy F. Murphy

Timothy F. Murphy is a professor of philosophy in the biomedical sciences at the University of Illinois College of Medicine and the author most recently of Ethics, Sexual Orientation, and...
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Susan M. Reverby

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Sue Dessayer Porter

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Colleen Farrell

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Blair L. Sadler

Blair L Sadler is a senior fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), and a member of the faculty at the University of California San Diego’s Rady School of...
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Joseph J. Fins

Joseph J. Fins, M.D., D. Hum. Litt. (hc), M.A.C.P., F.R.C.P., is The E. William Davis, Jr. M.D. Professor of Medical Ethics and chief of the Division of Medical Ethics at...
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Mildred Z. Solomon

Mildred Solomon has an international reputation for her research on, and advocacy for, wiser health care and science policy. She was President of The Hastings Center from 2012 to June...
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Lin Tarrant

Lin Tarrant joined the Hastings Center in 2008.  She has worked in the not-for-profit sector for over 25 years including Direct Mail Manager at Guiding Eyes for the Blind and...
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Cathy Meisterich

Cathy Meisterich joined The Hastings Center for Bioethics as chief financial officer in 2006 and was given the additional role of chief operating officer in 2007. Previously, Meisterich was executive...
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Jodi Fernandes

Jodi Fernandes has been with The Hastings Center for Bioethics since 1998 in administrative support roles that have spanned various departments including research, development, and finance, in addition to having...
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Siofra Vizzi

Siofra Vizzi  joined the Hastings Center in 2010 as the development assistant and became manager of individual giving and special events in 2016. She also serves as the in-house photographer...
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Nora Porter

Nora Porter has been the Center’s art director for the past 20 years. She is responsible for the design of the Center’s publications, promotional and development materials, and website graphics....
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Susan Gilbert

Susan Gilbert is the director of communications at The Hastings Center for Bioethics and editor of Hastings Bioethics Forum. Before joining the Center in 2007, she was an editorial consultant...
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Laura Haupt

Laura Haupt, with Gregory Kaebnick, edits the Hastings Center Report. She is also a consulting editor for Ethics & Human Research. From 2013 until 2024, she was the managing editor...
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Erik Parens

Erik Parens is a senior research scholar emeritus at The Hastings Center for Bioethics and a visiting professor at Wesleyan University, in Science and Technology Studies. Since his undergraduate days, Parens has...
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Thomas H. Murray

Thomas H. Murray was president of The Hastings Center for Bioethics from 1999 to 2012. He was formerly the director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics in the School of...
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Karen J. Maschke

Karen Maschke has expertise on the ethical, regulatory and policy issues involving the development, assessment, and use of new biomedical technologies. She is the editor-in-chief of The Hastings Center for Bioethics’s...
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Gregory E. Kaebnick

Gregory E. Kaebnick explores questions about values and biotechnologies. He is also one of the editors (with Laura Haupt) of the Hastings Center Report and a Hastings Center fellow. He...
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Nancy Berlinger

Nancy Berlinger is a Senior Research Scholar at The Hastings Center for Bioethics. She is trained in the humanities. Her Bioethics for Aging Societies research portfolio focuses a humanities lens...
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