**Andrew Flescher**

Andrew Flescher is Professor of Public Health and a Professor of English at Stony Brook University. He specializes in medical ethics, medical humanities, public health, transplantation ethics, health care policy, and comparative religious ethics. He chairs the ethics committee for the Organ Procurement Transplant Network/United Network for Organ Sharing (OPTN/UNOS) and serves as the medical ethicist on the New York State's Transplant Council. In addition to writing several articles and book chapters, he is the author of four books: Heroes, Saints, and Ordinary Morality (2003, Georgetown University Press), The Altruistic Species (2007, Templeton Press, winner of the Choice Award), Moral Evil (2013, Georgetown University Press, winner of the Prose Award), and The Organ Shortage Crisis in America (2018, Georgetown University Press).
