G. Kevin Donovan, MD, MA Biography
- Title:
- Senior Clinical Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University
- Position:
- Con to the question "Should Euthanasia or Physician-Assisted Suicide Be Legal?"
- Reasoning:
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“The [DC physician-assisted suicide] law is flawed and dangerous… With this ill-advised public policy, the state has also created an ugly two-tier system, where the young, the able and the well get suicide prevention and people with treatable but deadly disabilities or chronic life-threatening illnesses get suicide ‘help.’ We physicians cannot, in good faith, do the same. If we did, we would undercut the very thing that sustains us in our profession — sustaining the life and health of our patients.”
“A Flawed and Dangerous Law,” washingtontimes.com, May 9, 2018
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Senior Clinical Scholar, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University
- Professor of Pediatrics, Georgetown University
- Director, Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics, Georgetown University, Aug. 2012-present
- Chief, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, Jan. 2007-Dec. 2012
- Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Oklahoma, Jan. 1996 – Dec. 2012
- Founding Director, Oklahoma Bioethics Center, Jan. 1990 – Dec. 2012
- Chief, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Oklahoma, Jan. 1982 – Dec. 2003
- Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Oklahoma, 1988-1996
- Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Oklahoma, 1982-1988
- Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, 1980-1982
- Clinical Associate, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, 1979-1980
- Fellow, Developmental Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Neonatal and Pediatric Medicine Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, 1979-1980
- Fellow, Pediatric Gastroenterology, University of Oklahoma, 1977-1979
- Education:
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- Residency, Pediatrics, Baylor University, 1977
- MA, Bioethics/Medical Ethics, University of Oklahoma, 1994
- MD, University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, 1974
- BA, University of Notre Dame, 1970
- Other:
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