Emory Ethicist Wins World Technology Award

The director of ’s Center for Ethics was honored this week with a prestigous technology award by the World Technology Network.

The winners of the World Technology Awards were announced this week during the close of the World Technology Summit in New York.

Paul Root Wolpe from Emory was honored among indivduals and organizations from around the globe for "innovative and impactful work in the ethics of technology."

Wolpe said the award is "a tribute to the Center for Ethics and for Emory, and for the reputation we have built nationwide."

The World Technology Awards have been presented since 2000 to honor innovative work in more than 20 categories of science and technology and related fields.

Wolpe is the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Bioethics at Emort, the Raymond F. Schinazi Distinguished Research Chair in Jewish Bioethics, and a professor in the departments of medicine, pediatrics psychiatry and sociology.

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