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Cryonics researchers Chana de Wolf and Aschwin de Wolf

Moderated by Aschwin de Wolf, the critical care medical panel of the 7th Alcor Conference addressed the current status on laws that affect the practice of cryonics, the ethical debate concerning non heart-beating organ donation (NHBD), and comparisons between organ procurement procedures and cryonics. Questions were fielded by participants Tanya Jones (Alcor’s Chief Operating Officer), David Crippin (Associate Professor of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical center) and Leslie Whetstine (Ph.D. in Health Care Ethics).

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Alcor Chief Administrative Officer Jennifer Chapman and Chief Operating Officer Tanya Jones

Tanya Jones has participated in the cryopreservation of over half of Alcor’s 78 cryopreserved patients. She started her career at the life extension organization over a decade ago and her experience as the Chief Operating Officer is effectuating innovative change within the organization. As the leader of Alcor’s emergency response capability, she is actively responsible for elevating the level of care. She shared details of present-day initiatives to provide the state-of-the art in cryonics technology at the 7th Alcor Conference.

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Bruce Klein, Tanya Jones, and Aubrey de Grey at the 6th Alcor Conference in Scottsdale, Arizona

Tanya Jones, Alcor’s Chief Operating Officer, has been actively involved with the organization since 1990. She has devoted a decade of work to cryonics overseeing the cryopreservation process, improving procedures, and managing Alcor’s day-to-day operations. She held the titles of Program Architect and Director of Communication at the Foresight Nanotech Institute and has participated in the cryopreservation procedures of half of Alcor’s patient population. At the 6th Alcor Conference she gave a talk on the efforts to provide and protect the wealth preservation trusts necessary to support and eventually revive cryopreserved patients.

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