KAREN GRANDSTRAND GERVAIS, PHD, BA, Oberlin College; PhD, University of Minnesota. 

Gervais directs the Minnesota Center for Health Care Ethics. Internationally recognized for her work on the definition of death (Redefining Death, Yale University Press, 1986), she co-edited Ethical Challenges in Managed Care: A Casebook; has contributed articles to books on cross cultural and managed care ethics, including the Encyclopedia of Bioethics; and has published in the Hastings Center Report, American Journal of Bioethics, IRB, The American Journal of Managed Care, Medical Humanities Review, and Minnesota Medicine.  

Gervais has been ethics and policy consultant for the Institute of Medicine, Office of Technology Assessment, MMA, TCMS, MDH, DHS, MN Attorney General’s Office, Science Museum of Minnesota, Minnesota Council of Health Plans, American Association of Health Plans, Mn State Board of Nursing, and National Council of State Boards of Nursing. She was on MDH Commission on End-of-Life Care, MDH Palliative Care Advisory Council, and Task Force on Health and Bioterrorism. She co-directed the Minnesota Department of Health/CDC Minnesota Pandemic Ethics Project on rationing health care resources in a severe pandemic, co-authoring “For the Good of Us All: Ethically Rationing Health Resources in Minnesota in a Severe Influenza Pandemic.”