6th Annual David B. Larson Memorial Lecture
March 4, 2008
"Is Healthcare a Spiritual Practice"
Daniel P. Sulmasy, O.F.M., M.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Sulmasy, a Franciscan Friar, holds the Sisters of Charity Chair in Ethics at St. Vincent’s Hospital, Manhattan, and serves as Professor of Medicine and Director of the Bioethics Institute of New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY. He received his A.B. and M.D. degrees from Cornell University and completed his residency, chief residency, and post-doctoral fellowship in General Internal Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Georgetown University in 1995. From 1991 to 1998 he served on the faculty at Georgetown, where he was Director of the Center for Clinical Bioethics and Senior Research Scholar of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics. He was appointed by the governor to the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law in 2005.
His research interests include the ethics of end-of-life decision-making, ethics education, and spirituality in medicine. He is the author of four books—The Healer’s Calling, Methods in Medical Ethics, The Rebirth of the Clinic, and A Balm for Gilead. He serves as editor-in-chief of the journal, Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics. His numerous articles have appeared in medical, philosophical, and theological journals and he has lectured widely both in the U.S. and abroad.
