Welcome to the Edmund D. Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics
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(June 22, 1920 – June 13, 2013)
Portrait by Jerry Crowley
The Pellegrino Center provides university-based ethics resources for individuals who shape and give health care. We are committed to the dynamic interplay between theory and practice, experience, and reflection. Center scholars bring expertise in theology, philosophy, basic science, and clinical practice to today’s ethical challenges. We seek to promote serious ethical reflection and discourse in pursuit of a just society and health care that affirms the dignity and social nature of all persons.
News and Announcements
The 2025 Pellegrino Symposium
Mens moralis mentis: Professor James Giordano
and Two Decades of Neuroethics at Georgetown
Friday, February 14, 2025 at 3 pm via Zoom
More information and registration
The PCCB is co-sponsoring a conference February 27-28 at Catholic University of America here in Washington, DC on “Integrity in the Concept and Determination of Brain Death.” Speakers include PCCB faculty members Allen H. Roberts II, MD, M.Div., MA ; Daniel P. Sulmasy, MD, PhD ; and Sarah B. Vittone, RN, MA, MSN, DBe, HEC-C . More information and registration
On Monday, January 27, 2025 at 4 pm, The Pellegrino Center, along with the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, co-sponsored the Distinguished Scientist Seminar series featuring Sheldon Rubenfeld, MD speaking on “Medicine After the Holocaust” in recognition of
International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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Center for Clinical Bioethics Programs
Your Health: A Sacred Matter
Watch this public television documentary on spirituality, religion, and medicine. Earn two free credits of CME/CEU for watching the entire film.