Friday, May 13, 2022, 2:45-3:30 p.m.

Ashley K. Fernandes, MD, PhD, FAAP, MD, PhD, FAAP
Assoc. Director Center for Bioethics & Medical Humanities; Assoc. Professor of Pediatrics OSU Nationwide Children’s Hospital

Dr. Fernandes, MD, PhD, is the Associate Director of the Center for Bioethics at The Ohio State University College of Medicine, and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. He received an MA in Philosophy from Johns Hopkins University; an MD from The Ohio State University; and a PhD in Philosophy from Georgetown University, focusing on bioethics. Dr. Fernandes is board certified in General Pediatrics. Focusing on bioethics and professionalism educational scholarship, he is a practicing academic primary care pediatrician. His scholarly interests include pediatric ethics, philosophical anthropology, medical education in bioethics and professionalism, and medical ethics after the Holocaust, for which he has authored book chapters and published and presented nationally and internationally.

Dr. Fernandes is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, an elected member of the AAP’s national Executive Committee on Bioethics, and a member of the AOA Medical Honor Society. In 2020, he was appointed to the NIH Ethics Advisory Board for Fetal Tissue Research. A long-time member of the Catholic Medical Association, he was awarded the Patrick Guinan Mentor of the Year award in 2015. He is also a member of the national Gold Humanism Honor Society, receiving the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine award twice—in 2020 and in 2010. He is the recipient of numerous teaching awards, most recently The Ohio State University College of Medicine’s Professor of the Year Award in 2020, and the Linda C. Stone Award in Mentorship in 2019.

The Enduring Significance of the Hippocratic Oath in a Secularist Culture