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