All Posts: bioethics

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Nurse-Bioethicist Christine Grady Returns to Her Roots at Georgetown

Christine Grady, RN, PhD, FAAN (N’74, G’93), an alumna who has built her career exploring the ethics of biomedical research, has returned to the Hilltop — a place where she…

March 24, 2026

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A Partnership for Good

A conversation with nurse-bioethicist Christine Grady (N’74, G’93) and her husband, new faculty member Anthony…

February 12, 2024

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Nursing and Medical Students Debate Ethical Dilemmas as Pellegrino Student Scholars

(December 9, 2022) — In a clinical bioethics program unique to Georgetown, a select group of nursing and medical students — known as Pellegrino Student Scholars — work…

December 10, 2022

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Jesuit, Doctor, Ethicist to Lead Pellegrino Center

(December 5, 2020) — Myles Sheehan, SJ, MD, first met Edmund Pellegrino, the legendary bioethicist and founder of Georgetown’s Edmund D. Pellegrino Center for Clinical…

December 5, 2020

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Direct-To-Consumer Genetic Testing: Getting it ‘Morally Right’

(September 18, 2019) — The TV advertisements for DNA testing are ubiquitous: there’s one with the young man who thought he was part German until genetic testing led him to…

September 20, 2019