NorthWest Biotherapeutics Inc (NWBO)

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Linda Powers sister in law, Carol L. Powers (married to Philip Whittemore Powers who died in 2006 at the age of 51) did some paperwork for the Compagny (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=4019916931949&set=a.2757785139443&type=3&theater) and is Co-Founder and Chair of the Community Ethics Committee, operating under the auspices of the Harvard Ethics Leadership Group.

https://bioethics.hms.harvard.edu/faculty-staff/carol-l-powers

Willard had arranged for a classroom visit from Carol Powers. A lawyer by training, Powers was instrumental in the creation of the Community Ethics Committee, an arm of Harvard Medical School’s Center for Bioethics. The CEC is a group of citizens who meet regularly to provide public input on ethical aspects of health care. Every one of the group’s reports, Powers was pleased to note, has resulted in policy changes at Harvard-affiliated hospitals. Powers visited the class to address the role of community input in creating ethical standards and policies, and to offer support and insight to students as they work on the course’s capstone project.

But she began by recounting the harrowing road that led her to help create the CEC. She and her husband had a baby born with severe medical issues. The students listened raptly as Powers described the roller coaster – emotional and ethical – that defined her days as she and her husband made literal life-or-death decisions for their child, who eventually succumbed to his health complications. “We had entered a part of life where you don’t have a safe place, where there are no good decisions,” Powers told the class. “We faced every ethical decision you can face: ‘What is life?’ ‘How do you make the decision to stop life support?’”

Out of that difficult time came her resolve to work in the field of bioethics. Every hospital, she said, has to have an ethics service, to address the types of concerns that invariably arise around medical treatment. “Whenever the word ‘should’ or ‘ought’ comes in, you’re in the realm of ethics,” she said.
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Carol L. Powers, Attorney

President of Community Voices in Medical Ethics, Inc. (medicalethicsandme.org); Co-founder of Harvard's Community Ethics Committee with Reports on Withholding Non-Therapeutic CPR, Palliative Sedation, Medical Futility, Pediatric Organ Donation on Cardiac Death, and Medical Staff Use of Social Media, among others; Chair of the Ethics Committees of both Commonwealth Care Alliance and the Regional Office of MA Department of Developmental Services; presenter at 2013 ASBH National Conference and 2010 ICCEC International Conference.
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