PCCB Faculty

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Headshot of Myles N. Sheehan, SJ, MD

Myles N. Sheehan, SJ, MD
Director, Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics
David Lauler Chair of Catholic Health Care Ethics and Professor of Medicine
Georgetown University Medical Center

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Anne L. Dalle Ave, MD, MS
Ethicist, Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics
Associate Professor of Medicine
Georgetown University Medical Center

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G. Kevin Donovan, MD, MA
Former Director, Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics
Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics
Georgetown University Medical Center

Miguel Fernandez, MD
Director of OBGYN Education and Director of the OBGYN Outpatient Clinic, Virginia Hospital Center
Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Georgetown University School of Medicine

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James J Giordano, PhD, MPhil
Chief, Neuroethics Studies Program, Scholar-in-Residence, Director of the Sub-Program in Military Medical Ethics, and Co-director of the O’Neill-Pellegrino Program in Brain Science and Global Health Law and Policy at the Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics
Professor, Departments of Neurology and Biochemistry, Georgetown University Medical Center
Core Faculty, Graduate Liberal Studies Program, School of Continuing Studies

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Ed Grant, JD, MA
Ethicist, Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics

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Michelle Grant Ervin, MD, MHPE, FACEP
Attending Physician, Emergency Medicine at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
Ethicist, Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics

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David G. Miller, PhD
Associate Director for Academic Programs, Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Family Medicine
Georgetown University Medical Center

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Joel Michael Reynolds, PhD, MA
Senior Research Scholar, Kennedy Institute of Ethics
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Disability Studies
Director of the Disability Studies Program

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Allen H. Roberts II, MD, M.Div., MA Clinical Ethicist, PCCB; Physician Executive Director for Inpatient Operations and Associate Medical Director, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital; Professor of Medicine, Georgetown University Medical Center; Chair, MGUH Clinical Ethics Committee; and Editor-in-Chief, The Pellegrino Report

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Claudia Ruiz Sotomayor, MD, DBe, HEC-C,
Chief, Ethics Consultation Service and Clinical Ethicist, Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine
Georgetown University Medical Center

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Christopher J Spevak MD MPH JD
Clinical Ethicist, PCCB
Director, Cura Personalis Fellowship, Professional Identity Formation Curriculum
Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology
Georgetown University School of Medicine

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Siva Subramanian, MD
Clinical Professor Emeritus and former Chief, Division of Neonatology, Georgetown University Medical Center

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William F. Sullivan, MD, PhD
Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. Chair in Bioethics
Senior Research Scholar, Kennedy Institute of Ethics

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Daniel P. Sulmasy, MD, PhD
André Hellegers Professor of Biomedical Ethics
Departments of Philosophy and Medicine
Georgetown University Medical Center
Director and Senior Research Scholar, Kennedy Institute of Ethics

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Sarah B. Vittone, RN, MA, MSN, DBe, HEC-C
Associate Professor, Doctor of Bioethics; Sr. Director Undergraduate Studies and Masters Entry Programs, School of Nursing Professor, Department of Nursing
Clinical Ethicist Research subject advocate-GHUCCTS

Founding Members

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Edmund D Pellegrino, MD, MACP (Deceased)
Founding Director, Center for Clinical Bioethics
Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Medical Ethics
Georgetown University Medical Center
Senior Research Scholar, Kennedy Institute of Ethics

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John Collins Harvey, MD (Deceased)
Senior Research Scholar, Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics
Professor of Medicine Emeritus
Georgetown University Medical Center
Emeritus Senior Research Scholar, Kennedy Institute of Ethics