In July 2020 The Pellegrino Center launched a newsletter for medical professionals at Medstar Georgetown University Hospital (MGUH). This resource, created in collaboration with the MGUH Clinical Ethics Committee, supplements the Pellegrino Center’s Ethics Consultation Service by providing easily digestible, critical information as well as by responding to inquiries about issues in bioethics.

The Pellegrino Report was profiled in the April 2023 issue of Catholic Health World.

  • December 2024: “The “End of the Day”: Lessons from Jacob Marley’s Ghost” by Allen H. Roberts II, MD
  • November 2024: “Self-Effacement: A Virtue for Clinicians” by Myles N. Sheehan, SJ, MD
  • October 2024: “Discharging Patients from the Hospital: Ethical Issues” by Myles N. Sheehan, SJ, MD
  • September 2024: “A Tale of Three Patients: Cura Personalis and the Nagging Questions of Brain Death (Part 2)” by Allen H. Roberts II, MD                                                                      
  • August 2024: “A Tale of Three Patients: Cura Personalis and the Nagging Questions of Brain Death (Part 1)” by Allen H. Roberts II, MD
  • July 2024: “Welcome and Introduction to the Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics” by Myles N. Sheehan, SJ, MD
  • June 2024: “Community and Hospitality” by Evan Beacom, DO, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Minnesota
  • May 2024: “Reflections on Nicole Piemonte’s Work on Compassion and Vulnerability in Medical Practice and Education” by Myles N. Sheehan, SJ, MD
  • April 2024: “Taking Safety to Heart” by Allen H. Roberts II, MD
  • March 2024: “The Importance of Empathy” by Christopher J. Spevak, MD, MPH, JD
  • February 2024: Meet Our New Ethics Consultants
  • January 2024: “Understanding and Applying ERD #33 at MedStar Georgetown” by Myles N. Sheehan, SJ, MD
  • December 2023: “Listening and Compassion as ‘The Right and Good Healing Action'” by Myles N. Sheehan, SJ, MD
  • November 2023: “Giving Thanks While Saying Goodbye” by Myles N. Sheehan, SJ, MD
  • October 2023: “Healing Discourse” by Allen H. Roberts II, MD
  • September 2023: “Patient Autonomy and Relational Ethics: The Importance of a Timely Ethics Consult” by Sahi Reddy MD, PGY 2—Internal Medicine, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
  • August 2023: “Climate Change and Health Care” by Myles N. Sheehan, SJ, MD
  • July 2023: “End of Life Care and the Ethical and Religious Directives” by Myles N. Sheehan, SJ, MD
  • June 2023: “Welcome from the Pellegrino Center” by Myles N. Sheehan, SJ, MD; “True Orientation” by Allen H. Roberts II, MD
  • May 2023: “The Internal Morality of Medicine and the Critically Ill Patient” by Myles N. Sheehan, SJ, MD
  • April 2023: “Bioethics and Professional Identity Formation” by Christopher J. Spevak, MD, MPH, JD
  • March 2023: “Ethics in the Management of a Severely Anemic Bloodless Medicine Patient” by Kelly K. Johnson-Arbor, MD
  • February 2023: “On Brain Death” by Allen H. Roberts II, MD
  • January 2023: “The Ethical and Religious Directives on Social Responsibility” by Myles N. Sheehan, SJ, MD
  • December 2022: “Hope for the Holidays” by Myles N. Sheehan, SJ, MD
  • November 2022: “Social Determinants of Health in the NICU” A Conversation with Siva Subramanian, MD and G. Kevin Donovan, MD, MA
  • October 2022: “Dilemmas in the Absence of a Surrogate” by Claudia Ruiz Sotomayor, MD, DBe
  • September 2022: “Nurses in the Service of Ethics” by Eileen Farrell, MS, BSN, RN, Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
  • August 2022: “About the Ethics Consultation Service for MedStar Georgetown” by Claudia Ruiz Sotomayor, MD, DBe
  • July 2022: A Special Welcome to New Colleagues: “The Covenant of Medicine” by Allen H. Roberts II, MD and “Care and Solidarity” by Myles N. Sheehan, SJ, MD
  • June 2022: “Capacity and Consent” by Myles N. Sheehan, SJ, MD
  • May 2022: “The Ethics of Safety” by Myles N. Sheehan, SJ, MD and “Reflecting with Resolve” by Sarah Vittone, MSN, DBe
  • April 2022: “Defining Futility” by Allen H. Roberts II, MD
  • March 2022: “Autonomy in Context” by Allen H. Roberts II, MD
  • February 2022: “Health Care Providers?” by Myles N. Sheehan, SJ, MD
  • January 2022: “Navigating End-of-Life Care with the Ethical and Religious Directives” by Claudia Ruiz Sotomayor, MD, DBe
  • December 2021: “Nurturing Hope” by Myles N. Sheehan, SJ, MD
  • November 2021: “It is a passion to take care of a patient” — An Interview with Siva Subramaniam, MD
  • October 2021: “Threading the Needle in Cases of Biomedical Futility” by Allen Roberts II, MD, MA
  • September 2021: “Spirituality in Health Care” by Myles N. Sheehan, SJ, MD
  • August 2021: The Ethics Consultation Service at MGUH: Meet the Consult Team
  • July 2021: “The Role of Virtue in Medical Ethics” by Allen Roberts, II, MD, MA
  • June 2021: “Reflections on Professionalism” by Jeevan M. Puthiamadathil, MD
  • May 2021: “What an Ethics Consult is Not” by Myles N. Sheehan, SJ, MD and Claudia Ruiz Sotomayor, MD, DBe
  • April 2021: “On Trust” by Allen Roberts, II, MD, MA
  • March 2021: “On Suffering” by Myles N. Sheehan, SJ, MD
  • February 2021 “The Ethicist’s Role in IMOC Rounds” by Claudia Ruiz Sotomayor, MD, DBe
  • January 2021: “The Ethical and Religious Directives Explained” by Myles N. Sheehan, SJ, MD
  • December 2020: “Finding Hope in Trying Times” by Myles N. Sheehan, SJ, MD
  • November 2020: “Ask the Bioethicist:  How should we explain brain death?”  by Allen Roberts, II, MD, MA
  • October 2020: “African Americans and Healthcare Advance Directives: What It Means to Do ‘Everything We Can’” by Lawrence Prograis, MD
  • September 2020: “When are two doctors better than one?” by G. Kevin Donovan, MD, MA
  • August 2020: “Moral Distress” by Claudia Sotomayor, MD, DBe and Sarah Vittone, MSN, DBe
  • Inaugural Issue — July 2020: “Pandemic and Pandemonium” by Myles Sheehan, SJ, MD