Director
Daniel P. Sulmasy, MD, PhD is the André Hellegers Professor of Biomedical Ethics, professor of medicine, and a world renowned scholar and clinician in bioethics, with joint appointments in the Department of Philosophy, the School of Medicine and the Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics.
Research Scholars
Research Scholar
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Research Scholar; Professor of Neuroscience, School of Medicine;
Faculty, Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics
Francis J. McNamara, Jr. Chair of Philosophy; Professor of Philosophy;
Research Scholar; Director of Ethics Lab
Rose F. Kennedy Chair of Christian Ethics
Research Scholar
Research Scholar
Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology
Joel Michael Reynolds, PhD, MA
Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor of Philosophy and Disability Studies; Research Scholar;
Faculty in the Disability Studies Program, Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics, and the Medical Humanities Initiative
Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. Chair in Bioethics
Research Scholar; Faculty, Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics
Additional Faculty
Associate Teaching Professor
Academic Program Director
Assistant Teaching Professor of Philosophy, Ethics Lab
Postdoctoral Fellow, Ethics Lab
Assistant Professor of Practice
Assistant Director of Ethics Lab
Senior Designer, Ethics Lab
Assistant Research Professor
Emeritus Research Scholars
John Keown, DPhil, PhD, DCL, LLD
Senior Research Scholar Emeritus
Rose F. Kennedy Professor of Christian Ethics Emeritus
Senior Research Scholar Emeritus
Professor Emeritus of Philosophy
Henry Richardson, JD, MPP, PhD
Senior Research Scholar Emeritus
Professor of Philosophy Emeritus
Professor Emeritus
Kennedy Institute of Ethics and Department of Philosophy
Affiliate Faculty
- Maxwell Gregg Bloche, JD, Professor of Law; Co-Director, Georgetown-Johns Hopkins Joint Program in Law and Public Health, Georgetown University Law Center
- Alisa Carse, PhD, Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University
- Anne Dalle Ave, MD, MS, Faculty, Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine, Georgetown University Medical Center; Associate Physician and Senior Medical Lecturer, Institute of Humanities in Medicine, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
- Lawrence Gostin, JD, Linda D. and Timothy J. O’Neill Professor of Global Health Law, Faculty Director, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Center
- Patricia King, JD, Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law, Medicine, Ethics, and Public Policy, Georgetown University Law Center
- Loretta Kopelman, PhD, Adjunct Professor of Family Medicine, Georgetown University Medical Center; Professor Emeritus, Department of Medical Humanities, East Carolina University
- Quill Kukla, PhD, Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University
- Nancy Sherman, PhD, University Professor, Philosophy Department, Georgetown University
- Karen Stohr, PhD, Ryan Family Chair Professor of Metaphysics and Moral Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Georgetown University
- Myles N. Sheehan, SJ, MD, David Lauler Chair of Catholic Health Care Ethics; Director, Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics; Professor of Medicine, Georgetown University Medical Center
- K.N. Siva Subramanian, MD, Professor Emeritus and former Chief, Division of Neonatology Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Obstetrics & Gynecology, Georgetown University Hospital
- Carol Taylor, PhD, MSN, RN, FAAN, Professor of Nursing, Professor of Medicine, Georgetown University Medical Center
- Columba Thomas, OP, MD, MA, Assistant Professor of Medicine; Faculty, Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics, Georgetown University Medical Center
Retired International Affiliate
- Rihito Kimura, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Law, Waseda University
Post-Doctoral Fellows
- Ramon Jorge Palmer Coll, Postdoctoral Fellow; McDonald-Agape Fellow in Bioethics
Visiting Researchers 2026-27
Staff
Reference & Program Specialist
IMSE Collection Curator
Director of Communications
Technical Services Manager
Archivist for the Kennedy Institute of Ethics
Institute Administrator


















