Edmund D. Pellegrino, MD, PhD
AAME Board of Reference

Dr. Edmund D. Pellegrino is the Professor Emeritus 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 the Center for Clinical Bioethics at Georgetown.

He received his BS degree from St. John’s University and his MD from New York University. He served residencies in medicine at Bellevue, Goldwater Memorial, and Homer Folks Tuberculosis Hospitals, following which he was a research fellow in renal medicine and physiology at New York University. During Dr. Pellegrino’s 50 years in medicine and university administration, he has been departmental chairman, dean, vice chancellor and president.

Dr. Pellegrino is the author of over five hundred and sixty published items in medical science, philosophy, and ethics. He is the author or co-author of forty-five books, and the founding editor of the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy. Dr. Pellegrino is a Master of the American College of Physicians, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, and recipient of forty-five honorary doctorates in addition to other honors and awards. Dr. Pellegrino’s research interests include the history and philosophy of medicine, professional ethics, and the physician-patient relationship.

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