Programs
The O’Neill Institute-Pellegrino Center Program
The O’Neill Institute-Pellegrino Center Program in Brain Science and Global Health Law and Policy brings together institutional capabilities and the expertise of internationally renowned scholars in global health law and policy, neurosciences, clinical medicine and neuroethics.
Scholars in Clinical Bioethics Programs
Visiting Scholars and Student Scholars
The Edmund D. Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics welcomes applications for Visiting Scholars for post-graduate applicants and Student Scholars for undergraduate applicants.
Pellegrino Scholars
The Pellegrino Student Scholars
The Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics seeks the next generation of student scholars to explore the Center’s distinct approach to clinical ethics.
Applications are solicited for the Fall term of each academic year.
Intensive Bioethics Course (IBC)
The IBC was relaunched in 2019 following a review of how best it can meet the needs and interests of healthcare professionals, and others wishing to deepen their understanding of bioethics, in the 21st century. The updated course is a collaborative venture between the Kennedy Institute of Ethics (KIE) and the university’s Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics (PCCB), reflecting the course’s greater emphasis on clinical bioethics.
Academic Programs
Neuroethics Studies Program
The Neuroethics Studies Program focuses upon the issues, questions, problems and solutions arising at the intersection of brain science, medicine and society. Ongoing projects address the validity and value of applications of newly developed neurosceintific techniques and technologies in research, medicine, public life, and global health: key ethical issues in neurology, neurosurgery, psychiatry and pain care; use and misuse of brain science to define personhood, life and death; and the neurobiological process involved in moral and ethical thought, emotions, and actions. Ongoing scholarship, lectures, tutorials and international collaborations make the Program a forum and nexus for resident and visiting scholars. Inquiries about the program and applications for visiting scholars in neuroethics should be directed to James Giordano, PhD, Chief of the Neuroethics Studies Program.
Health Care Ethics Education
The PCCB’s Associate Director for Academic Programs, David G. Miller, PhD, directs the Health Care Ethics and Intensive Bioethics for Clinicians courses for first- and second-year medical students. Students are asked to critically examine how medical professionalism, ethics, and law set standards for physician role and behavior. The curricula are designed to cultivate a refined capacity for moral reflection and discourse in students of the medical profession. Dr. Miller also coordinates ethics education in the third- and fourth-years with Drs. Sheehan and Sotomayor.
Doctoral Studies in the Department of Philosophy
More information coming soon.