Dr. Kathy McReynolds is Director of Academic Studies for the Joni & Friends Christian Institute on Disability. Dr. McReynolds develops position papers on the many ethical issues in bioethics for the benefit of the disabled. She also contributes to curriculum development for the variety of courses in disability studies that the Institute is creating for colleges, universities and seminaries around the country. She has spent several years as an active member of the ethics committee a Children's Hospital in Orange County and was a member of the Institutional Review Board Committee at the hospital.