Gregory Pence Gregory Pence, a pioneering American bioethicist, has taught bioethics for fifty years in the medical center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. 
His Medical Ethics: Accounts of Ground-Breaking Cases, 2024 release, a bestsellr for over 34 years, stands as a standard textbook in the field. His Who's Afraid of Human Cloning? (1998) became a classic for its rigorous attack on opponents of human cloning. His Designer Food: Mutant Harvest or Breadbasket of the World? won Choice Outstanding Academic Title in 2003 as did his Overcoming Addiction: Seven Imperfect Solutions and the End of America's Greatest Epidemic in 2020. Bioethicist Peter Singer called his Pandemic Bioethics "an extraordinary achievement." Choice magazine rated his What Went Wrong: America's Response to Covid and Lessons for the Future (2025) an "essential" book for every American library. The book was the subject of a conference in Kyoto, Japan in 2025

Pence testified in 2001 before the U.S. Congress and in 2002 before the California Senate. He has been interviewed on Bobby Battista's "Talk Back Live," "The Point" with Gretta von Susteren on CNN, "The Early Show with Bryant Gumbel" on CBS, and "Wolf Blitzer's Washington" on CNN.

He has published in Newsweek, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. He has given keynote talks in Portugal, London, Switzerland, Australia, Israel, China, and dozens of American universities.

At UAB, Pence directs a program for gifted undergraduates pre-admitted to medical and dental school. Teaching there, he has won all the Best Teacher awards at UAB across both sides of its campus.

He grew up in Washington, D.C., graduated from the College of William and Mary cum laude in Philosophy, earning his doctorate from New York University in 1974, where he took courses from visiting professor Derek Parfit and worked on his dissertation under visiting bioethicist Peter Singer.

He now intends to convey what he has learned over half a century with weekly episodes on his YouTube channel, Great Stories in Bioethics.
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