All Posts: bioethics

• 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 closely together as they discover that practicing cura personalis includes navigating challenging ethical decisions with their patients and families. “Clinical bioethics provides the tools needed to navigate […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: bioethics, cura personalis, medical ethics, Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics, Pellegrino Scholars Program, student experience

• 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 Bioethics, in 1994. At the time, Sheehan, already a Jesuit priest and physician, was considering career directions. His conversation with Pellegrino helped guide him toward 14 formative years working in […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: bioethics, medical education, medical ethics, Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics, School of Medicine

• 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 trade his lederhosen for a kilt, and there’s a woman pictured taking exciting trips to various parts of the world — from Scandinavia to West […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: bioethics, genetic testing, medical ethics