Edmund Pellegrino, M.D., is the John Carroll Professor Emeritus of Medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center. He served as Director of the Institute (1983-1989), and the Center for Clinical Bioethics at the Medical Center (1991 1996). Dr. Pellegrino is the recipient of 42 honorary doctoral awards. Author of more than 500 publications, he is best known for his discussions of Christian virtue and medical ethics in the treatment of patients, humanism and the physician, and the philosophical basis of medical treatment. He is the founding editor of Journal of Medicine and Philosophy.