Brendan Parent, JD, is associate professor in the division of medical ethics with joint appointment in surgery at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and director of transplant ethics and policy research. He is principal investigator on nonprofit and government funded grants studying ethics and regulation of transplant research, artificial intelligence in healthcare, and replacing nonhuman animals in research. Parent serves as an independent living donor advocate, an advisory board member for the National Kidney Foundation, and provides ethics consultation for transplant and procurement programs across the globe. He has authored or co-authored over 80 academic articles in peer reviewed journals including Nature, Science, and JAMA, and his work has been featured in the Washington Post, The NY Times, Wired, Chicago Tribune, The Guardian, and on NPR.