ANDRÉ HELLEGERS LECTURE
This lecture is dedicated to the memory of André Hellegers, M.D., founding Director of the Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown, and is presented annually at the Member's Day Symposium. Dr. Hellegers was also Professor of OB-GYN and Professor of Physiology and Biophysics at Georgetown University Hospital. His hope for the newly founded Institute was that it would link scientific progress with religious belief, and would foster uninhibited moral debate that would effectively reflect a commitment to the disadvantaged and the powerless. Dr. Hellegers was instrumental in developing the field of bioethics on an international basis.
EDMUND PELLEGRINO LECTURE
Presented every other year, usually in conjunction with the Intensive Bioethics Course, this lecture was established to honor Dr. Edmund Pellegrino, John Carroll Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Medical Ethics, Senior Research Scholar at the Institute, and former Director, Center for Clinical Bioethics, Georgetown University Medical Center, and former Director of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics. Dr. Pellegrino is the author, coauthor, or editor of seventeen books, including Humanism and the Physician; and, with David C. Thomasma, Ph.D., Philosophical Basis of Medical Practice, For the Patient's Good, The Virtues in Medical Practice, and Helping and Healing.