edmund pellegrino

Edmund D. Pellegrino, M.D. is the John Carroll Professor of Medicine and Medical Ethics at Georgetown University.
He is the former director of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Center for the Advanced Study of Ethics, and is the current director of the Center for Clinical Bioethics at Georgetown.
He is the author of over 500 published items in medical science, philosophy, and ethics and is a member of numerous editorial boards.
Dr. Pellegrino is a Master of the American College of Physicians, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.
Over his long career, Dr. Pellegrino has worked to promote and strengthen the sacred relationship between individuals who are ill and thus vulnerable and their physicians who have “the power to do enormous good and enormous harm.”
A man of deep faith and conviction, he has tirelessly extolled the importance of physicians’ virtues such as intellectual honesty and fidelity to patient as the ethical basis of the clinical encounter.
According to Dr. Pellegrino, one teaches virtue by acting virtuously. This conviction has served as a guiding principle in his professional life, and partly explains his infectious appeal and influence in the field of medical ethics and professionalism.
As the author of more than 500 published works, Dr. Pellegrino has written on subjects ranging from the history and philosophy of medicine to professional ethics and the patient-physician relationship.
He has received numerous honorary degrees and awards including the Benjamin Rush Award for Citizenship and Community Service from the American Medical Association and the Abraham Flexner Award for Distinguished Service to Medical Education from the Association of American Medical Colleges.