Student Research
The Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics at Saint Louis University attracts students from throughout the nation and the world to SLU.
Our students complete research in diverse fields, including the philosophy of medicine, sexual and reproductive ethics, death and dying, professionalism, public health ethics, neuroethics, and Catholic health care.
Graduate assistant and Ph.D. student (joint philosophy and bioethics)
B.A., philosophy, Kogi State University, Nigeria M.A., ethics, peace and human rights, American University, Washington, D.C.
Research Interests: bioethics; biotechnology and human enhancement; human rights
Graduate assistant and Ph.D. student (joint theology and health care ethics)
B.A. in biology and philosophy from Boston College
M.A., in moral theology and ethics from the Catholic University of America
Research Interests: Catholic moral theology and bioethics, trust and the doctor-patient relationship
Graduate assistant and Ph.D. student
B.A., philosophy - Villanova University B.S., psychology - Villanova University
Research interests: Catholic biomedical ethics, sexual and reproductive ethics, pediatric ethics, bioethics and the law
Ph.D. candidate (joint theology and health care ethics)
B.A. in philosophy and Catholic studies from the University of St. Thomas (St. Paul, Minnesota)B.S.N. in nursing from the College of St. Scholastica
M.S. in bioethics from the University of Mary
Research Interests: virtue ethics, beatitude, end-of-life issues, Christian anthropology, common good, theological formation of healthcare, phenomenology of healthcare
Graduate assistant and Ph.D. student
B.A., philosophy and theology - Marian University (Indianapolis)
Research interests: clinical ethics, organ donation, ethics and genomics, and reproductive ethics.
Graduate teaching assistant and Ph.D. student
M.S. in occupational therapy from Washington UniversityM.A. in philosophy from the University of Missouri-St. Louis
Research interests: clinical ethics, end-of-life care, neuroethics, well-being, disability studies
Ph.D. candidate (joint theology and health care ethics)
B.A. in classics (ancient Greek) from the University of Virginia
M.T.S. from Loyola University Maryland
Research interests: ancient medicine and suffering
SLU Diversity Fellow, graduate teaching assistant and Ph.D. student (joint philosophy and bioethics)
B.A., in philosophy and medical humanities, Baylor University Research interests: phenomenology of illness, virtue ethics, metaphysics of health and illness, clinical reasoning, models of clinical care, philosophical anthropology, embodiment, and pathocentric epistemic injusticeGraduate assistant and Ph.D. student (joint philosophy and bioethics)
B.A. in philosophy and history - Pepperdine University Research interests: ethics of autonomy, emerging autonomy, analytic metaethics, abortion, clinical ethics, epistemology, divine command theory, platonic defenses of democracy in the republicPh.D. candidate
B.A. in religious and theological studies and philosophy from Salve Regina University
Research interests: Catholic biomedical ethics, clinical ethics, disability and impairment, Thomistic theology, death and dying, organizational ethics
Graduate teaching assistant and Ph.D. student
B.A. in philosophy from Elmhurst University (minors in medical humanities and religion)M.A. in bioethics from Wake Forest University
Research interests: reproductive ethics, end-of-life ethics, clinical ethics
Ph.D. candidate
B.A. in theology and philosophy from Quincy University
M.A. in theology from the Aquinas Institute of Theology
Research interests: clinical ethics, end-of-life care, pain and suffering, virtue ethics, Catholic social teaching
Ph.D. candidate (joint theology and health care ethics)
B.A. in theology and finance from Benedictine College M.A. in theological ethics from Saint Louis UniversityResearch interests: goods of aging, geriatric care, economics/business and medicine, Catholic bioethics, moral theology, end-of-life care/decision making, clinical ethics
Ph.D. candidate
B.A. from Quest University Canada
M.Sc. in medical humanities from King’s College from the University of London
Research interests: clinical ethics, metaethics, hermeneutics, phenomenology narratives medical law, end of life
Graduate teaching assistant, SLU Dissertation Fellowship (AY 23-24) and Ph.D. candidate
B.A. in philosophy from Azusa Pacific University
M.A. in philosophy from the University of Oklahoma
Research interests: virtue ethics, feminist ethics, medical humanities
Graduate teaching assistant, Ph.D. student
B.A. in philosophy from Cardinal Glennon College M.A. in theology from Kenrick School of Theology M.Div. from Kenrick School of Theology M.S. in bioethics - University of MaryResearch interests: Catholic moral tradition, catholic health care, natural law
Ph.D. candidate
B.A. in biochemistry and policy studies from Rice University
M.D. from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
Research interests: philosophy of medicine, medical ethics education, virtue ethics, clinical ethics and end-of-life care
SLU Diversity fellow and Ph.D. student (Joint Philosophy and Bioethics)
B.A. in philosophy and literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz
Research interests: Aristotle, virtue ethics, aesthetics, business ethics, clinical ethics, public philosophy
SLU Presidential Fellow, Graduate teaching assistant, and Ph.D. candidate (joint theology and health care ethics)
B.S.N. in nursing from Emory University
B.A. in philosophy and german from the University of Georgia
M.S.N. in nurse midwifery from Emory University
M.T.S. in theological studies from Duke Divinity School
Research Interests: Virtue ethics, virtue epistemology, phenomenology, clinical decision-making, perinatal care
SLU Dissertation Fellowship (AY 24-25), Graduate teaching assistant, and Ph.D. candidate
B.A. in philosophy and neuroscience - Augustana College
Research interests: Empathy, compassion, meaning-making in patients with terminal diagnoses, health care in underserved populations (prisoners, poverty-stricken/economically challenged individuals, etc.)
Ph.D. candidate
B.A. in biology from Carroll College
M.A. in theology from Aquinas Institute of Theology
Research interests: Catholic health care, clinical ethics, catholic moral theology, sexual and reproductive ethics, virtue ethics
Graduate teaching assistant & Ph.D. candidate
B.A. in philosophy from Saint Louis University
B.A. in gender studies from Saint Louis University
J.D. with a concentration in health law from Saint Louis University
Research interests: Legal epidemiology, law and bioethics, addiction ethics
Graduate teaching assistant and Ph.D. student
B.A. in philosophy from the University of Washington
M.A. in philosophy from Ohio University
Research interests: Informed consent, organ donation, reproductive ethics, and clinical ethics
Graduate teaching assistant and Ph.D. student
B.A. in philosophy, neuroscience, pre-medicine, from Augustana College M.A. in philosophy from the University of TennesseeResearch interests: Neuroethics, research ethics with vulnerable populations, clinical decision-making, reproductive ethics, feminist bioethics, narrative medicine and racial health disparity
Ph.D. student (Joint Theology and Health Care Ethics)
B.A. in biology from Westmont College M.A. in Theology and Leadership from Gonzaga UniversityResearch interests: Catholic healthcare ethics, medical technology, theology of medicine, the intersection of creation and medicine, Aquinian concepts of medicine and healthcare.
Graduate assistant and Ph.D. student (Joint Philosophy and Bioethics)
B.A. in philosophy & B.A. in psychology, Montana State University
Research interests: Philosophy of medicine, metaethics, end of life care, health disparities
SLU Diversity Fellow and Ph.D. student
B.A. in medical humanities, Baylor University
M.A. in healthcare ethics from the University of Louisville
Research interests: Philosophy of Technology, Disability Ethics and Race
Graduate teaching assistant and Ph.D. candidate (Joint Philosophy and Bioethics)
B.A. in theology from Concordia University Chicago
M.A. in theological studies from Saint Louis University
M.A. in philosophy from the University of Missouri-St. Louis
Research interests: Hope and human flourishing
Ph.D. student (Joint English and Bioethics)
B.A in english from the College of the Ozarks M.A. in English from University of North Florida
Research interests: Medical humanities, medicine and literature, health humanities, disability studies, death and dying, literature and philosophy, 20th-century English literature, narrative ethics
Graduate assistant and Ph.D. student
M.Jur. in faculty of law and administration from Jagiellonian University (Krakow, Poland) M.S. in bioethics from the University of Warsaw (Poland)Research interests: Clinical ethics, ethics of consent, ethics of new technologies (ethics of the use of AI in medicine), organizational culture in the context of health care system
Ph.D. candidate
B.A. in philosophy and theology from Wheeling Jesuit University
M.A. in theology from the University of Dayton
Research interests: Catholic spirituality, Catholic ethics, death and dying, rural health, and transhumanism
Graduate teaching assistant and Ph.D. candidate
M.B.B.S. in medicine from Fatima Jinnah Medical University (Lahore, Pakistan)
M.B.E. in bioethics from the Aga Khan University (Karachi, Pakistan)
Fellowship in pediatric bioethics from the Children's Mercy (Kansas City, Missouri)
Research interests: Clinical Ethics in Pakistan, clinical ethics consultation across borders, developing support to mitigate moral distress in health care providers, health care ethics education in Pakistan
Ph.D. student
B.S. in biochemistry from the Messiah UniversityM.P.H. in biostatistics and epidemiology from Johns Hopkins University/Bloomberg School of Public Health
M.D. from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
M.A. in philosophy of medicine from the King's College (London)
Research interests: Ethics, causation, placebo
Graduate assistant and M.D./Ph.D. student
B.S. in biology, health and society from the University of Michigan
B.S. in philosophy from the University of Michigan
Research interests: End-of-life decision-making, the appropriate role of genetic technologies in preventative medical care, deontological approaches to public health, social contractualism and public health, and scarce resource allocation
Ph.D. candidate (Joint Theology and Health Care Ethics)
B.A. in catholic studies from Seton Hall University
M.A. in theology from Seton Hall University
Research interests: Catholic health care, systematic theology, animal research ethics, mental health care ethics, and sexual and reproductive health ethics
Graduate assistant and Ph.D. student (Joint Theology and Health Care Ethics)
B.S. in mechanical engineering Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
B.A. in theology from Marian University (Indianapolis)
M.A. in theology from Aquinas Institute of Theology
Research interests: Christian Ethics, the common good, sexual and reproductive ethics, and Thomistic metaphysics.
Ph.D. candidate
B. A. in medical humanities from Baylor University
Research interests: Advance care planning, end-of-life care, Latin American medicine, bilingual medicine/interpretation, catholic social teaching, health care reform
Graduate teaching assistant and Ph.D. student (Joint Theology and Health Care Ethics)
B.A. in english from Harding University
M.T.S. in theology and the arts from Vanderbilt University
Research interests: Pain and suffering, spirituality and medicine, clinical decision making, public health, embodiment and incarnational theology
SLU Presidential Fellow and Ph.D. student
B.A. in global health and medical anthropology from the University of Michigan
M.S.N. in nurse-midwifery from Yale University School of Nursing
Clinical Medical Ethics Fellow at the University of Chicago Maclean Center
Research interests: feminist and queer bioethics, consent in intimate exams, trauma-informed pelvic care, medical abolition, antiracism, sexual and reproductive ethics, moral injury, medical humanities, inter-professional education, healthcare for uninsured and underinsured communities
Graduate assistant and Ph.D. student
B.S. in biochemistry and cell biology at Rice University
M.A. in philosophy at Georgia State University
Research interests: Christian ethics consultation, organizational ethics, ethics in long-term care facilities and geriatric care
Graduate teaching assistant and M.D./Ph.D. student
B.S. in biology from Cornell University
Research interests: Feminist and queer theory/ concepts of care, anarchism and medical ethics, science and technology studies/ history of medicine, disability studies, local medical anthropology
Graduate assistant and J.D./Ph.D. student
B.A. in biology with a minor in philosophy from Davidson College
Research interests: Intersection of law and bioethics, neuroethics, clinical ethics, data and genetic privacy
Ph.D. student (Joint Philosophy and Bioethics)
B.A. in philosophy from Grand Valley State UniversityM.A. in philosophy from Kent State University
Research interests: Ethics, applied ethics, public health ethics, biomedical ethics, feminist philosophy, ethics of sport
Graduate teaching assistant and Ph.D. student
B.S. in human biology from Biola University
M.A. in philosophy from Talbot School of Theology/Biola University
Research interests: End-of-life care, geriatric care, death and dying, palliative care, patient autonomy, dignity, clinical ethics/decision making and disability studies
Graduate teaching assistant and Ph.D. student (Joint Philosophy and Bioethics)
M.A. in philosophy from Arizona State University
Research Interests: virtue ethics, ethics of care, applied ethics, bioethics, public health ethics, political philosophy