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Ryan P. Pferdehirt, D.Bioethics, HEC-C

Rosemary Flanigan Chair of Bioethics
Center for Practical Bioethics
Leawood, Kansas

Ryan Pferdehirt is the Sister Rosemary Flanigan Chair of Bioethics and the Vice President of Ethics Services at the Center for Practical Bioethics. He is also an Instructor of Bioethics of Kansas City University. His work focuses on supporting healthcare organizations in the development of ethics committees and departments and works to grow competencies of member ethics committees, individual consultants, and the general public. He works with hospitals, hospices, and clinical associations nationwide providing workshops and ethics consultation services.

His research areas include moral philosophy, end-of-life ethics, Catholic health care ethics, philosophy of language, and advance care planning ethics. He has spoken extensively on implementing ethical decision-making into standard patient care, utilizing a framework for clinical ethics consultations, and the importance of word choice in clinical conversations. He has published articles and book chapters on the development of hospital ethics committees, the impact of labeling patients as noncompliant/nonadherent, and the importance of professionalism in communicating with patients and their families. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Pittsburgh, a master’s degree from Creighton University, and his doctorate from Loyola University Chicago.

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