Renzo Pegoraro

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Renzo Pegoraro (born June 4, 1959 in Padua ) is an Italian Roman Catholic clergyman and bioethicist .

Life

Renzo Pegoraro studied medicine at the University of Padua and was awarded a Dr. med. PhD. He then studied philosophy and Catholic theology in Padua and Rome . After receiving his ordination on June 11, 1989, he graduated from the Pontifical Gregorian University in 1990 in moral theology and studied bioethics at the Catholic University in Rome and Georgetown University in Washington DC. After researching at the Kennedy Institute in Washington DC, he was appointed professor of bioethics at the Theological Faculty of Northern Italy in Padua in 1993 . In 1993 he also became General Secretary of the Fondazione Lanza , a center for studies in ethics, bioethics and environmental ethics; since 2001 he has been its president. He is also Professor of Bioethics at the Medical Faculty of the University of Padua and the Facoltà Teologica del Triveneto .

In 1994 he was appointed President of the Ethics Committee of the Veneto Center for Oncology. Since 1998 he has been President of the Commission on Ethics in Research at the Medical Faculty of the University of Padua. From 2000 to 2002 he was a member of the National Council for Health Care. He is President of the European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Healthcare (ESPMH) and a board member of the European Association of Centers of Medical Ethics (EACME).

In 2011 he was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI. Appointed as Chancellor for the Pontifical Academy for Life ; he continues to exercise this office under Pope Francis in autumn 2016.

Renzo Pegoraro has published numerous scientific articles on biomedical ethics, in particular on questions of religion in the context of bioethics, experiments on humans, organ transplantation and care for the elderly .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vatican: New Chancellor for the Pontifical Academy for Life , in: Vatican Radio , September 12, 2011.
  2. ↑ Personal profile for Renzo Pegoraro at his home diocese of Padua , accessed on September 15, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Pegoraro, Renzo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian Roman Catholic clergyman and bioethicist
DATE OF BIRTH June 4th 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Padua