Stephen R. Kaufman is an ophthalmologist specializing in retinal disease and is a clinical assistant professor at both Case Western Reserve University and Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine. He is cochair of the Medical Research Modernization Committee, president of Vegetarian Advocates (a Cleveland-based group), and cochair of the Christian Vegetarian Association. He has written and lectured extensively on animal experimentation’s scientific shortcomings, diet and health, and Christian spirituality and vegetarianism.