roberto-delloro
Roberto Dell’Oro, PhD
Professor of Theological Studies

Loyola Marymount University
Los Angeles, California, USA
Phone: (310) 338-2752
E-mail: rdelloro@lmu.edu

Education

1992 Doctorate in Moral Theology Gregorian University, Rome, Italy
1985 Licentiate in Theology (S ThL, MA equiv) Gregorian University, Rome, Italy
1983 Baccalaureate in Theology Theological Faculty of Northern Italy, Milan, Italy

Biography

Dr. 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. 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 at various medical centers in the Los Angeles area and the National Institute of Health. 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.

Dr. Roberto teaches in the areas of bioethics, philosophical, and theological ethics, with a special interest in anthropological themes at the crossroad of theology and philosophy. He is the author/co-author of three books, Health and Human Flourishing: Religion, Moral Anthropology, and Medicine (Washington: Georgetown University Press, 2006); Moral Experience and the Person: On the Phenomenology of Dietrich von Hildebrand(Rome: Gregorian University Press, 1996); and History of Bioethics: International Perspectives (San Francisco: International Scholars Publications, 1996). He 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.


Research Interest

  • Bioethics
  • Theological Studies
  • Anthropological Studies

Scientific Activities

Teaching Experience
2013-Present Director, The Bioethics Institute, Loyola Marymount University, California, USA
2009-Present Full Professor, Department of Theological Studies, Loyola Marymount University, California, USA
2005-2009 Associate Professor, Department of Theological Studies, Loyola Marymount University, California, USA
2004-2006 Graduate Director, Master of Arts Program in Bioethics, The Bioethics Institute, Loyola Marymount University, California, USA
2003-2005 Assistant Professor, Department of Theological Studies, Loyola Marymount University, California, USA
1997-2001 Director of the Georgetown University-Bon Secours Program in Clinical Bioethics, Washington, USA
1995-2003 Director of the International Visiting Scholar Program, Center for Clinical Bioethics, Washington, USA
1987-1990 Assistant Professor of Moral Theology, Facolta’ Teologica dell’Italia Settentrionale, Milan, Italy
Professional Activities
2016 Member of the Scientific Committee of the Centro di Ricerca in Etica Clinica, Universita’ dell’Insubria di Varese, Varese, Italy
2015 Corresponding Member, Pontifical Academy for Life
2015 Member of the Scientific Committee of the Bioethics Center at the Catholic University of Milan, Italy
2014 Board Member, South California Bioethics Committees Consortium, Loyola Marymount University, California, USA
2014-Present Medical Ethicist for the Data and Safety Monitoring Board, Division of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Washington, USA
2014-Present Member, Theological Commission, Diocese of Los Angeles, Chair, International Bioethics Group, Brussels, Belgium
2009 Director, The Bellarmine Forum, Loyola Marymount University, California, USA
2008-2011 Member of the Ethicist/Theologian Committee, Catholic Health Association
2007-2010 Chair of the Ethics Committee, Saint John’s Medical Center, Santa Monica, California, USA
2007 Member of the Selection Jury for the Manuel Velasco Suarez Award in Bioethics, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
2004 Expert Advisor for a study by RAND Corporation on “Developing a Regional Consensus on Setting Limits for Aggressive Care at the End of Life”
2003-2009 Member of the International Forum of Catholic Bioethicists
2003-2006 Clinical Bioethicist, The Family Life Center, San Francis Medical Center, California, USA
2003-2006 Member of the Institutional Advisory Board, St. Francis Career College, California, USA
2001-2007 Medical Ethicist for the Intramural Data and Safety Monitoring Committee, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development at NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Honors & Awards
2016-2017 Awarded UNIHEALTH Foundation Research Grant
2015-2016 Awarded the Daum Professorship Award, Loyola Marymount University, California, USA
2010 Erasmus Mundus Professorship in Bioethics, University of Padua, Padova, Italy
2009 “Vulnerability and the Human Condition,” Proposal Selected for the Bellarmine Forum, Loyola Marymount University, California, USA

Publications

  1. “Should We Hope for a Cure? Raising a Child with Autism,” in Aldegonde Brenninkmeijer-Werhahn, ed., Marriage-Constancy and Change in Togetherness (Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2017).
  2. “Sollen wir auf Heilung hoffen? Die Erziehung eines Kindes mit Autismus,” in Aldegonde Brenninkmeijer-Werhahn, ed., Ehe-Bestand und Wandel im Miteinander (Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2017).
  3. “Moral Truth and Anthropological Mediation in the Theological Ethics of Klaus Demmer,” Gregorianum 1(2017): 37-50.
  4. “Conscience after Vatican II: Theological Premises for a Discussion on Catholic Health Care,” in David De Cosse and Thomas Nairn, ed. Conscience and Catholicism: From Clinical Context to Government Mandates (Maryknoll: NY, Orbis Books, 2017), 33-48 .
  5. “Profession and Virtues,” in Ignacio Carrasco de Paula and Renzo Pegoraro, ed., Virtues, Profession, and Medicine, (Rome: Pontifical Academy for Life, 2017), 30-56.
  6. “Why Clinical Ethics? Experience, Discernment, and the Anamnesis of Meaning at the Bedside,” Persona y Bioetica vol. 20 (2016)1: 86-99.
  7. “Il dibattito bioetico sulla “buona morte”: una ricostruzione tipologica,” in Proposte per una Biopolitica Personalista, Antonio Spagnolo and Vittoradolfo Tambone ed. (Roma: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2015), 23-41.
  8. “Between Resistance and Surrender: The Ethics of Research with Persons with Autism,” in Dolentium Hominum: Church and Health in the World 86 (2015): 58-66.
  9. “Embodiment as Saturated Phenomenon: Medicine, Theology, and Some Metaphysical Premises of Modernity,” in International Journal of Philosophy and Theology, vol. 2, n. 4 (2014): 69-84.
  10. “Aging, Disability, and the Ethics of Dying,” in Ignacio Carrasco de Paula and Renzo Pegoraro, ed., Aging and Disability: Ethical Questions and Proposed Solutions, (Rome: Pontifical Academy for Life, 2014), 201-212.
  11. “Remembering Prof. Edmund Pellegrino,” in Ignacio Carrasco de Paula and Renzo Pegoraro, ed., Aging and Disability: Ethical Questions and Proposed Solutions, (Rome: Pontifical Academy for Life, 2014), 279-282.
  12. “La buona morte tra conatus e passio: riflessioni a partire dal dibattito in bioetica,” in Corrado Viafora and Francesca Marin, ed., La buona morte in un contesto interculturale (Milano: Franco Angeli, 2014), 86-100.
  13. “Oltre la censura del senso: riflessioni sul futuro della bioetica,” in Medicina e Morale [Catholic University of Rome] (2014/2): 233-246.
  14. “Why Bioethics? On the Anamnesis of Meaning in Medicine,” in Medicine and Law 32 (2013): 163-176.
  15. “Recasting Fundamental Moral Theology: Notes on Klaus Demmer’s Christological Anthropology,” in Gregorianum 93/3 (2012): 463-483.
  16. “La filosofia di Klaus Demmer: sull’infrastruttura trascendentale del suo pensiero,” in Aristide Fumagalli e Vincenzo Viva, ed., in Pensare l’agire: in onore di Klaus Demmer (Milano: Paoline, 2011), 15-49.
  17. “L’approccio ermeneutico in bioetica,” in Corrado Viafora, ed. Il linguaggio filosofico della bioetica (Milano: Franco Angeli, 2011).
  18. “Il futuro della bioetica,” in D’Aloia e Pisu, ed., Le sfide della bioetica nell’era del progresso tecnologico (forthcoming 2011).
  19. “Ethics in Medicine: Hermeneutical Considerations on the Anamnesis of Meaning,” in Corrado Viafora and Kathrin Ohnsorge, ed., Clinical Bioethics (Padua/Basel: Erasmus Mundus, 2010), 7-23.
  20. “Theological Anthropology and Bioethics,” in Giovanni Grandi and Marcello Ghilardi, ed., Religion and Bioethics (Padua: Erasmus Mundus, 2010), 89-100.
  21. “Theologie in der Öffentlichkeit: Ein anthropologischer Beitrag zur Bioethik,” in Theologische Reihe der Universität Wiens (Wien: Universitätsverlag, 2010).
  22. “Voraussetzungslosigkeit in der Bioethik? Klonierung und anthropologisches Vorverständnis,” in Theologische Reihe der Universität Wiens (Wien: Universitätsverlag, 2010).
  23. “Die Funktion der Bioethik in der Medizin: Hermeneutische Erwägungen,” in Theologische Reihe der Universität Wiens (Wien: Universitätsverlag, 2010).
  24. “Ethical Issues in Diagnostic Radiology,” in Radiation Protection Dosimetry, Vol. 135/2 (2009): 122-127.
  25. “At the Boundary: On the Contribution of Theological Anthropology to Bioethics,” in OMEGA: Indian Journal of Science and Religion (2007): 52-74,
  26. “Bioéthique et recherche du sens en medicine,” in Armelle de Bouvet et Jean-Philippe Coubbaut (ed.), Une bioéthique pour un monde habitable? La bioéthique en discussion (Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2006), 41-56.
  27. “La dimensione ermeneutica nell’esperienza della cura: una ricognizione fenomenologica,” in Corrado Viafora and Silvia Mocellin (ed.), L’argomentazione nel giudizio bioetico (Milano: Franco Angeli, 2006), 183-198.
  28. “La Contribucion de la Religion a la Bioetica,” in Vida y Etica, 6/1 (2005): 25-40.
  29. “Cloning, Marriage, and Family: Ideological Premises and Forgotten Issues,” INTAMS review 11(2005): 67-79.
  30. “Interpreting Clinical Judgment: Epistemological Notes on the Praxis of Medicine,” in (ed.) Corrado Viafora, Clinical Bioethics: A Search for the Foundations (Dordrecht: Springer Academic Publisher, 2005), 155-168.
  31. “Il rapporto medico paziente e i fini della medicina,” in (ed.) Marianna Gensabella Furnari, Il paziente, il medico e l’arte della cura (Messina: Rubettino, 2005), 33-51.
  32. “La tecnologia genetica: tra promessa terapeutica e responsabilita’ morale,” in S. Pisu, G.Castello and G. Caocci (ed.), Scienza e coscienza. Questioni cruciali per la bioetica (Cagliari: Edizioni CUSL, 2005), 121-134.
  33. “Contextualizando la discussion sobre clonacion: premises ideologicas y asuntos olvidados,” Vida y Etica vol. 4 (2003), no. 2: 53-65.
  34. “La bioetica clinica come etica applicata: problemi teorici della consulenza etica nell’istituzione sanitaria,” >in (eds.) Mario Picozzi, Mario. Taviani and Paolo Cattorini, Verso una professionalizzazione del bioeticista (Milano: Giuffre’, 2003), 42-66.
  35. “Il rapporto medico paziente: una descrizione fenomenologica,” in (ed.) Marianna Gensabella Furnari, Alle frontiere della vita: eutanasia ed etica del morire (Soveria Mannelli: Rubettino, 2003), 20-34.
  36. “The Climate of Western Bioethics: Between Individual Liberalism and Social Solidarity,” in Bioethics in Multicultural Space: Locating Values and Translating Lessons (Proceedings of the International Academic Conference of Bioethics, Changsha, China, December 2-4, 2002).
  37. “La Bioetica en Estados Unidos: Universidad Catolica Argentica-Georgetown Dialogos de Bioetica,” Vida y Ética 3 (2002): 19-41.
  38. “Theological Discourse and the Postmodern Condition: The Case of Bioethics,” Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 18 (2002) 3: 127-136.
  39. “L’eticista come mediatore,” in Janus 8 (2002): 50-56.
  40. “Market Ethos and the Integrity of Health Care,” Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy, 18 (2002) 3: 641-647.
  41. “On the Ethics of Twins Separation: Analysis of a Recent Case,” Itinerarium 10 (2002): 89-106.
  42. “Philosophy and Program of the Center for Clinical Bioethics,” Itinerarium 10 (2002): 17-31.
  43. “Integrity and Compliance: Medicine and the Ethics of Health Care Institutions,” Health Progress (September-October 2001): 29-36.
  44. “The Center for Clinical Bioethics at Georgetown University: Philosophy and Activities,” Cuadernos de Bioetica (Edicao do Centro de Estudios de Bioética de Azores), 26 (2001): 21-36.
  45. “Confidencialidad en medecina: el problema de la proteccion de datos sanitarios,” in Actas de la I Jornadas de Proteccion de Datos Sanitarios (Madrid: Agencia de Proteccion de Deatos de la Comunidad de Madrid, 2000), 69-92.
  46. “Antropologia dell’intimita’ e segreto professionale,” in Quaderni di etica medica (Padova: CIC Edizioni Internazionali, 2000), 65-79.
  47. (with Warren Reich) “A New Era for Bioethics: The Source of Meaning in Moral Experience,” in (ed.) Allen Verhey, Religion and Medical Ethics: Looking Back, Looking Forward (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1996): 96-119.
  48. “Esperienza e verita’ morale,” Rivista di teologia morale 28 (1996): 63-82.
  49. “Antropologia ed etica: oltre al bioetica nordamericana,” Rivista di teologia morale 27 (1995): 203-220.
Books
  1. Pope Francis on the Joy of Love: Theological and Pastoral Reflections, with Thomas Rausch, S.J. (New York/Mahwah, N.J.: Paulist Press, 2018)
  2. Health and Human Flourishing: Religion, Medicine, and Moral Anthropology, with Carol Taylor (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2006)
  3. History of Bioethics: International Perspectives, with Corrado Viafora (San Francisco: International Scholars Publications, 1996)
  4. Esperienza morale e persona. Per una rilettura dell’etica fenomenologica di Dietrich von Hildebrand [Moral Experience and the Person: the Phenomenological Ethics of Dietrich von Hildebrand] (Rome: Gregorian University Press, 1996)
Books Translated
  1. Klaus Demmer, Shaping the Moral Life: An Approach to Moral Theology (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2000), from the German Einführug in die Moraltheologie (unpublished manuscript)
  2. Karl Rahner, Visioni e profezie: mistica ed esperienza della trascendenza (Milano: Vita e Pensiero, 1994), from the German Visionen und Prophezeiungen: Zur Mystik und Transzendenzerfahrung (Freiburg; Herder, 1989)

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