People

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.

Faculty, Scholars, and Fellows

Senior Research Scholars

Sean Aas, PhD

Senior Research Scholar
Associate Professor of Philosophy

John Keown, DPhil, PhD, DCL

Senior Research Scholar
Rose F. Kennedy Professor of Christian Ethics

Maggie Little, BPhil, PhD

Francis J. McNamara, Jr. Chair of Philosophy; Professor of Philosophy
Senior Research Scholar; Director of Ethics Lab

Alyssa Newman, PhD

Senior Research Scholar
Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology

Joel Michael Reynolds, PhD, MA

Senior Research Scholar
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Disability Studies; Director of the Disability Studies Program

Henry Richardson, JD, MPP, PhD

Senior Research Scholar
Professor of Philosophy

Karen Stohr, MA, PhD

Senior Research Scholar
Ryan Family Professor of Metaphysics and Moral Philosophy

William F. Sullivan, MD, PhD

Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. Chair in Bioethics
Senior Research Scholar

Additional Faculty and Fellows

Laura J. Bishop, PhD

Associate Teaching Professor
Academic Program Director

Joel De Lara, PhD, MA

Postdoctoral Fellow, Ethics Lab

Jason Farr, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow, Ethics Lab

Ben Frush, MD

2024-26 McDonald-Agape Fellow, Kennedy Institute of Ethics

Jonathan Healey, MArch

Assistant Professor of Practice
Assistant Director of Ethics Lab

Sydney Luken, MA

Senior Designer, Ethics Lab
Assistant Research Professor

Myles Sheehan, SJ, MD

Senior Clinical Scholar
Professor of Medicine

Carol Taylor, PhD, MSN, RN, FAAN

Senior Clinical Scholar
Professor of Medicine & Nursing

Columba Thomas

SOM Clinician Scholar Track — Appointment Pending
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine

Visiting Researchers

Paul Bidmon

Legal Research Associate and PhD candidate at the Chair of Public Law, Health Law and Legal Philosophy, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany

Ruaim Muaygil, MD, PhD, HEC-C

Associate Professor of Healthcare Ethics, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Chair, Clinical Ethics Committee, King Saud University, Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Staff

Roxie France-Nuriddin

Reference & Program Specialist
IMSE Collection Curator

Maria Maisto, MA

Director of Communications

Patricia Martin, MA

Technical Services Manager

Dawn Sjurset

Institute Administrator

Faculty Affiliates