ISSN: 2689-8845
Professor
Department of Medical Ethics
Saint Joseph’s University
United States of America
Tel: 610-660-1465
Prof. Peter A Clark is a Professor of Medical Ethics and Director of the Institute of Clinical Bioethics at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. He is also the Bioethicist for the Mercy Health System of Philadelphia, Aria Jefferson Health System, St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children and Shriners Hospital for Children in Philadelphia, St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore, Mercy Hospital in Baltimore, Catholic Charites of Maryland and Caritas Baby Hospital in Bethlehem, Palestine. Father Clark received his Ph.D. from Loyola University of Chicago and is author of numerous articles in medical and bioethics journals. He is also author of To Treat or Not to Treat: the Ethical Methodology of Richard A. McCormick as Applied to Treatment Decisions for Handicapped Newborns published by Creighton University Press and Death With Dignity: Ethical and Practical Considerations for Caregivers of the Terminally Ill, published by University of Chicago Press. Prof. Clark was honored with Michael J Morris Grant for Scholarly Research for the year (2011-2012). Prof. Peter A Clark research interests include medical futility, pain management, prejudice in the medical profession, the medical use of marijuana, tube feedings and PVS patients, male circumcision and HIV/AIDS, face transplantation, and the Ashley treatment, etc.
