Kevin T. FitzGerald, SJ, PhD, PhD

Department

Medical Humanities

Position

Associate Professor

Publications

• Endocrine-Related Cancer
  De Oliveira Andrade Fabia, Effects of Jaeumkanghwa-tang on tamoxifen responsiveness in preclinical ER breast cancer model
  26:3, p. 339 - 353 2019
• Xenotransplantation
  Paris Wayne, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Theological Perspectives about Xenotransplantation
  25:3, p. e12400 - e12400 2018
• The American Journal of Bioethics
  McAdams Douglas C., How We Should Conceive of Creation: Natural Birth as an Ethical Guidepost for Neonatal Rescue
  17:8, p. 42 - 44 2017
• The American Journal of Bioethics
  Conley II W. Kevin, Beneficence In Utero: A Framework for Restricted Prenatal Whole-Genome Sequencing to Respect and Enhance the Well-Being of Children
  17:1, p. 28 - 29 2017

Presentations

• "Health Promotion: Prevention, Enhancement or Selection?" Philosophical Café for Coburg University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Coburg, Germany. 2019
• "Ethical Perspectives on Clinical Use of Germline Gene Editing," panel moderator and participant, American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy Policy Summit, Washington, DC. 2019
• "Direct-to-consumer Genomics: what is it, and what should it be?" Hawai'i Department of Health, Honolulu, HI. 2019
• "Genomic Medicine: Rapidly Advancing, but Where and to What End?" Tripler Army Medical Center, Honolulu, HI. 2019
• "A Catholic Guide to Genomic Medicine," and "Inter-professional Ethics Education in the 21st Century," University of Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico. 2019
• "Human Genome Editing: Rapidly Advancing, but Where and to What End?" and Panelist for Homo technicus/technologicus: Biotechnology, Health Promotion and Ethics of Human Flourishing, International Symposium at Coburg University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Coburg, Germany. 2018
• Panelist, CRISPRcon: Conversations on Science, Society and the Future of Gene Editing, Boston, MA. 2018
• Panelist, "Combating the Emergence and Spread of Antimicrobial Resistance: A Workshop to Strengthen Faith-Based Engagement," U.S. State Department, DC. 2017
• "Catholic and Christian Views on Theological Issues Associated with Xenotransplantation," International Xenotransplantation Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD. 2017
• "Promise and Peril of Genomic Medicine," United Faculty for Life Annual Meeting, University of St. Thomas Law School, Minneapolis, MN. 2017
• "The Virtue of Genomic Medicine," 4th Annual Pellegrino Seminar, Georgetown University, Washington, DC. 2017

Other

• The Hastings Center: “Goals and Practices for Next-Generation Prenatal Testing” Project Working Group Member, 2014-18.

• GU Complex Moral Challenges Grant: Improving Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting Healthcare and Clinical Guidelines Through Community Engagement and Leadership, Kevin FitzGerald, SJ, PhD, PhD; Samantha Wu, BS; Ranit Mishori, MD, MHS, FAAFP; Rebecca Reingold, JD, 2016-18.

• Building the National Center for Infectious Disease Analysis (NCIDA): a collaboration among the public health departments of the District of Columbia, Maryland, New York State and Virginia with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Georgetown University. Ethics Principle Investigator, 2017-2018.

• Global Comprehensive and Integrative Medicine Project (Korea Federal Government and Daegu City Government funding with by Daegu Catholic University Medical Center): GU Program Director, November, 2012-July, 2018.

• “The Business of Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing: A Complex Moral Challenge,” Co-Principle Investigator, Georgetown University Complex Moral Challenges Grant (July 2015-June 2019).

• Global Engagement Faculty Committee International Collaborative Grant awarded to Drs. Kevin FitzGerald and James Giordano, “When in ‘Roam'...Transnational Patients: Practical and Ethical Implications for Medical Practices and Health Promotions Policy,” to bring together international scholars for a meeting on this topic. 2016-17.

Consulting

• Consultant
  Catholic Health Association
  2015 - 2019
• Consultor
  Pontifical Council for Culture
  2014 - 2014