Dr. Moreno is a member of the Board on Health Sciences Policy of the Institute of Medicine (National Academy of Sciences), and of the Council on Accreditation of the Association of Human Research Protection Programs. He is president of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities.
Moreno  currently co-chairs the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research.  He is also a bioethics advisor for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a Faculty Affiliate at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University , and a Fellow of the Hastings Center and the New York Academy of Medicine.  Â
Among Moreno 's books are In the Wake of Terror: Medicine and Morality in a Time of Crisis, (MIT Press, 2003), and Undue Risk: Secret State Experiments on Humans (Routledge, 2001), which was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and a Virginia Literary Award. His other books include Ethical and Regulatory Aspects of Clinical Research (Johns Hopkins, 2003), Deciding Together: Bioethics and Moral Consensus (Oxford University Press, 1995); Ethics in Clinical Practice (Little, Brown and Co., 1994; Aspen Publishers, 2000); and Arguing Euthanasia (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 1995). He is under contract to the Dana Press for a book tentatively entitled Mind Wars: National Security and the Brain. Moreno has published more than 200 papers, reviews and book chapters, and is a member of several editorial boards.
Moreno is an ethics commentator for ABCNews.com and is a frequent guest on news and information programs, including ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, The CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, NPR's All Things Considered and Science Friday, Marketplace, MSNBC News with Brian Williams, CNN Crossfire, and The McLaughlin Group. He is often quoted in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Boston Globe, The Baltimore Sun, Newsday, Time, and other national publications.
He has held full-time faculty appointments at Swarthmore College , the University of Texas at Austin , George Washington University and the SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn . He has also held appointments at the University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics, the Children's National Medical Center , and has been a Special Expert in the Department of Clinical Bioethics at the Warren Magnuson Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda , Maryland .
He was a member of the National Human Research Protections Advisory Committee (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services), a senior consultant for the National Bioethics Advisory Commission, and has advised the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. During 1994-95 he was Senior Policy and Research Analyst for the President's Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments. On several occasions he has given invited testimony before committees of the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate.
Moreno  received his bachelor's degree from Hofstra University in 1973, with highest honors in philosophy and psychology. He was a University Fellow at Washington University in St. Louis , receiving his doctorate in philosophy in 1977, and was a Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in cooperation with the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies. In 1998 he received an honorary doctorate from Hofstra.
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