We are proud to announce the following Break-Out Session Speakers for the 2009 Cardinal O'Connor Conference:
Fr. James Duffy
Fr. Duffy is a board certified internist who has recently joined the Center for Clinical Bioethics. A former graduate of both the Georgetown University School of Medicine and the Internal Medicine Residency Program at Georgetown University Hospital, Fr. Duffy has returned to the Georgetown School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine on the Medical Educator Track. He is actively involved in teaching in both the Ethics Curriculum and the Physical Diagnosis. His clinical duties involve preceptoring medical students for the Ambulatory Care Course at the Spanish Catholic Center Medical department.
Serving on the Ethics Consultation service for Georgetown University Hospital, Fr. Duffy also holds weekly ICU Ethics rounds and serves on the Organ Transplantation Committee as an Ethics advisor.
Fr. Fitzgerald
Kevin Fitzgerald is a Research Associate Professor in the Division of Biochemistry and Pharmacology of the Department of Oncology and the David Lauler Chair for the Catholic Health Care Ethics. He is also a member of the Center for Clinical Bioethics, the Advisory Board for the Center for Infectious Disease (CID), and the Angiogenesis, Invasion, Metastasis Program at the Lombardi Cancer Center.
He is also a Jesuit priest. He is an expert on human cloning, cloning research, ethics of cloning, and genetic testing.
Dr. Michael Pakaluk
Dr. Pakaluk is a scholar in classical philosophy, who has published in a wide variety of areas. His interests range over ethics, political philosophy, philosophical psychology, and philosophical logic, among other topics. He cultivates lively side-interests in the philosophy of John Henry Newman and the personalism of Karol Wojtyła.
His books include the Clarendon Aristotle volume on books VIII and IX of the Nicomachean Ethics (1998), and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: An Introduction (Cambridge, 2005). He is currently at work on Aristotelian Theory of Action and Moral Psychology (with Giles Pearson, for Oxford University Press), and a new translation and edition of the complete psychological writings of Aristotle for the Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy series.
Dr. Pakaluk was a Marshall Scholar and comes to the Institute for Psychological Sciences from Clark University.
Sisters for Life
The Sisters of Life is a contemplative/active religious community dedicated to protecting and advancing a sense of the sacredness of all human life — beginning with the infant in the womb and extending to all those vulnerable to the threat of euthanasia.
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