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CURRICULUM VITAE ROBERTO DELL’ORO DIRECTOR BIOETHICS INSTITUTE AND PROFESSOR DEPARTMENT OF THEOLOGICAL STUDIES LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ONE LMU DRIVE UNIVERSITY HALL 3766 LOS ANGELES 90045 (310) 338-2752 phone (310) 338-1947 fax Email: [email protected] ______________________ Last update: January 25, 2019 1 BRIEF VITAE Roberto Dell’Oro is the Director of the Bioethics Institute and a Professor in the Department of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University. He studied philosophy and theology in Milan (Italy), Munich (Germany), and Rome. In 1992, he earned a doctorate in theological ethics at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, under the direction of Klaus Demmer, with a dissertation on Dietrich von Hildebrand’s phenomenology of moral experience. From 1993 to 1995, he was a post-doctoral fellow in bioethics at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University -- with the late Edmund Pellegrino, the former chair of the President’s Council of Bioethics, as a mentor. In 1995, he became a Senior Scholar at the Center for Clinical Bioethics at Georgetown University, with teaching appointments in the Medical School and the Department of Philosophy. In the fall 2003, Roberto moved to the Department of Theological Studies at LMU, where he is a full professor and the Director of the Bioethics Institute. Over the years, Roberto has held clinical and research appointments in bioethics: from 2003 to 2006, he served as a clinical bioethicist at St. Francis Medical Center in Lynwood, CA, concentrating especially on ethical issues in obstetrics, perinatology and neonatology; from 2001 to 2007, he was the medical ethicist for the “Data and Safety Monitoring Board” at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development at N.I.H. in Bethesda, Maryland; from 2007 to 2011, he chaired the bioethics committee at St. John’s Medical Center in Santa Monica, CA. In 2010, he was selected for a sabbatical as Erasmus Mundus Professor of Bioethics at the University of Padua (Italy). Since 2003, he has been an Affiliate Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. Recently he has appointed on another Data and Safety Monitoring Board at N.I.H. Since 2014, he is also member of the Theological Commission of the Diocese of Los Angeles and, since 2015, a Corresponding Member of the Pontifical Academy for Life. Roberto teaches in the areas of bioethics, fundamental moral theology, and ethical theories, with a special interest in anthropological themes at the crossroad of theology and philosophy. He has lectured internationally in five languages, and is the author/co-author of four books, Health and Human Flourishing: Religion, Moral Anthropology, and Medicine (Washington: Georgetown University Press, 2006), Esperienza morale e persona (Rome: Gregorian University Press, 1996), History of Bioethics: International Perspectives (San Francisco: International Scholars Publications, 1996), and the latest book, Pope Francis on the Joy of Love: Pastoral Reflections on Amoris Laetitia (Paulist Press, 2018). Roberto translated two books from German, and published in national and international journals, such as Theological Studies; Gregorianum; Health Progress; Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy; The Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy; INTAMS review; Rivista di teologia morale; Vida y Etica, Persona y Bioetica. His currently projects include a book on German ethicist Klaus Demmer, and a textbook of clinical bioethics tentatively titled Method and Meaning: Hermeneutical Reflections in Bioethics. 2 CURRENT POSITIONS Director, Bioethics Institute, Loyola Marymount University Professor, Department of Theological Studies, Loyola Marymount University AFFILIATIONS Doctoral Program Affiliate Faculty, School of Education, Loyola Marymount University Faculty Affiliate, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University Associate Fellow, International Institute for Hermeneutics, Toronto (Canada) EDUCATION 1992 - Doctorate in Theology (S.Th.D., Ph.D. equiv.), Summa cum Laude, Gregorian University, Rome (Italy). Dissertation in Moral Philosophy: “Moral Experience and the Person: An Assessment of Dietrich von Hildebrand’s Phenomenological Ethics,” Director: Prof. Klaus Demmer 1986-1987 - Visiting Researcher in Philosophy, Hochschule für Philosophie, Munich (Germany). Advisor: Prof. Johannes Baptist Lotz 1985 – Dr. Phil. (“Laurea in lettere e filosofia”), equipollence of the S.Th.L. degree for the Italian state 1985 - Licentiate in Theology (S.Th.L., M.A. equiv.), Summa cum Laude, Gregorian University. Thesis in Moral Philosophy: “Philosophical Anthropology and Ethics: Paul Ricoeur’s ‘Philosophie de la Volonté,” Director: Prof. Klaus Demmer 1983 - Baccalaureate in Theology (S.Th.B.), Magna cum Laude, Facolta’ Teologica dell’Italia Settentrionale, Milan (Italy). Thesis in Philosophy of Religion: “Italo Mancini on the Hermeneutic Foundation of Philosophy of Religion,” Director: Prof. Giuseppe Colombo 1978 - Classical School State Exam (Liceo Classico). Awarded 60/60 (maximum score) LANGUAGES Fluent in Italian, English, Spanish, German, and French. Reading abilities in Classical Greek, Latin, and Portuguese. 3 RESEARCH AND TEACHING POSITIONS Director, Bioethics Institute, appointed May 15, 2013 Recipient of the Erasmus Mundus Professorship in Bioethics, University of Padua, spring 2010 Full Professor, Department of Theological Studies, since fall 2009 Associate Professor, Department of Theological Studies, 2005-2009 Graduate Director, Master of Arts Program in Bioethics, The Bioethics Institute, Loyola Marymount University, 2004-2006 Assistant Professor, Department of Theological Studies, Loyola Marymount University, 2003 – 2005 Senior Scholar, Center for Clinical Bioethics, Georgetown University Medical Center and Research Assistant Professor of Bioethics, Department of Philosophy and Medical School, Georgetown University, 1995-2003 Director of the Georgetown University-Bon Secours Program in Clinical Bioethics, 1997-2001 Director of the International Visiting Scholar Program, Center for Clinical Bioethics, 1995-2003 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Center for the Advanced Studies of Ethics and the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, 1993-1995 Assistant Professor of Moral Theology, Facolta’ Teologica dell’Italia Settentrionale, Milan (Italy), 1987-1990 OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES Member of the Scientific Committee of the Centro di Ricerca in Etica Clinica, Universita’ dell’Insubria di Varese, Italy, appointed February 10, 2016 Corresponding Member, Pontifical Academy for Life, appointed September 11, 2015 Member of the Scientific Committee of the Bioethics Center at the Catholic University of Milan, Italy, appointed in 2015 4 Board Member, South California Bioethics Committees Consortium, appointed on April 2014 Medical Ethicist for the Data and Safety Monitoring Board, Division of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Health, Bethesda (MD), since 2014 Member, Theological Commission, Diocese of Los Angeles, since 2014 Chair, International Bioethics Group, Brussels, Belgium Member of the Ethicist/Theologian Committee, Catholic Health Association, 2008-2011 Member of the International Forum of Catholic Bioethicists, 2003-2009 Chair of the Ethics Committee, Saint John’s Medical Center, Santa Monica, CA, (January 2007-December 2010) Director, The Bellarmine Forum, Loyola Marymount University, fall 2009 Medical Ethicist for the Intramural Data and Safety Monitoring Committee, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development at N.I.H., Bethesda (MD), 2001-2007 Member of the Selection Jury for the Manuel Velasco Suarez Award in Bioethics, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), since June 2007 Clinical Bioethicist, The Family Life Center, San Francis Medical Center, Lynwood, CA (areas of involvement: Obstetrics, Perinatology, and Neonatology), 2003-2006 Expert Advisor for a study by RAND Corporation on “Developing a Regional Consensus on Setting Limits for Aggressive Care at the End of Life,” 2004 Member of the Institutional Advisory Board, St. Francis Career College, Lynwood, CA, 2003-2006 Bioethics Consultant, The Renaissance Pediatric Unit, Iliff Nursing Home, Dunn Loring (VA), 1999-2003 Ethicist in the Institutional Review Board of Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, D.C, 1998-2003 Instructor of Italian Language, Graduate School USDA (Washington, D.C.) and Istituto Italiano di Cultura (Washington, D.C.), 1993-1995 Editor of NAPMR Quarterly, Leading Ministry with Persons with Mental Retardation, 1993-1995 Translator for Vita e Pensiero, Publisher of the Catholic University of Milan, 1992 5 AWARDED GRANTS/STIPENDS Awarded UNIHEALTH Foundation Research Grant for 2016-2017 Awarded the Daum Professorship Award for 2015-2016, Loyola Marymount University Erasmus Mundus Professorship in Bioethics, University of Padua, spring 2010 “Vulnerability and the Human Condition,” Proposal Selected for the Bellarmine Forum, Loyola Marymount University, 2009 Summer Research Grant, Loyola Marymount University, Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts, 2004 (A Ground for Meaning: An Appraisal of Klaus Demmer’s Hermeneutics and Its Significance for the Field of Bioethics) PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES American Society for Bioethics and Humanity Catholic Theological Society of America Society of Christian Ethics ATISM (Italian Theological Society for the Study of Ethics) PUBLICATIONS BOOKS Pope Francis on the Joy of Love: Theological and Pastoral Reflections on Amoris Laetitia, with Thomas Rausch, S.J.