Email: ejb@gear3.net

Description of Bioethics Expertise

ABOUT:
An active mediator for more than 15 years, Edward J. Bergman is the Co-Author and General Editor of ACourt-Annexed Mediation: Critical Perspectives on Selected State and Federal Programs (Pike & Fisher 1998). He has taught at the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania (1994-present); the Center for Bioethics, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania (2005-present) where he also serves as the Center's Director of Mediation Services; the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University (1990-1993); Department of Political Science, Princeton University (2003-2004); and University of California at Berkeley/St. Petersburg University Joint Management Program (Russia) (1995-1998). Mr. Bergman lectures frequently on various dispute resolution topics. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (B.A. with honors, 1963) and Columbia University Law School (J.D. 1966).

Mr. Bergman has been a certified mediator for the United States District Court, District of New Jersey (1992-present) and the Superior Court of New Jersey (1995-present). He is admitted to practice law in New Jersey, the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, and the United States Supreme Court.

Mr. Bergman is a past president of the Princeton Bar Association (1986-87) and former Vice-Chair of the Committee on Court-Connected Programs in the Section on Dispute Resolution of the American Bar Association. He is a member of the New Jersey and American Bar Associations, serves on the New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on Complementary Dispute Resolution, and is a master of the Justice Marie Garibaldi Inn of Court for Dispute Resolution . In 2005, he was named to the Board of Directors of the New Jersey Association of Professional Mediators. He formerly served as a Trustee of the Arts Council of Princeton and as a Trustee of the Princeton Ballet.

Mr. Bergman is biographied in Who's Who in America and Who's Who in American Law.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Court-Annexed Mediation: Critical Perspectives on Selected State and Federal Programs, with John Bickerman, Pike & Fischer (1998).

"Beyond Schiavo", with Arthur Caplan, The Journal of Clinical Ethics, Volume 18, Number 4 (January 2008).

"Healthcare Mediation", with Autumn Fiester, Chapter 15 Penn Center Guide to Bioethics, Springer (2009).

“Charting the Future – Credentialing, Privileging, Quality, and Evaluation in Clinical Ethics Consultation,” with Nancy Neveloff Dubler, Mayris P. Webber, Deborah M. Swiderski, and the Faculty and The National Working Group for the Clinical Ethics Credentialing Project, Hastings Center Report, November-December 2009.