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  • Instructor of Bioethics
  • Associate Director of Center for Bioethics at The Ohio State University College of Medicine
  • Director of Professionalism Competency at The Ohio State University College of Medicine
Saint Gianna School of Health Sciences

About Me

I am a pediatrician and bioethicist with a keen interest in clinical ethics, pediatrics ethics, bioethics and the Holocaust, and bioethics education. I also am a happy family man and proud American who loves to travel and listen to 1980s alternative music!

Why I’m At É«»¨ÌÃ

Catholic identity and philosophical anthropology in medicine is critical to humanistic and dignified patient care. The É«»¨Ìà is strongly committed to faith and science as part of its mission to change the world.

Expertise

I am both a clinical and bioethicist, with active leadership roles in medical education and clinical care. I have taught scores of courses in medical ethics at the post-graduate, graduate, undergraduate, and medical school level, winning numerous teaching awards in the process.

Daily, KP., Loftus, T., Waickman, CE., Start, AR., Fernandes, AK. (2021) "Beyond the Protocols: A TBL Intervention Improving Student Knowledge and Confidence on Caring for Survivors of Sexual Assault," Academic Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40596-021-01496-x 

Fernandes, AK. (2021) "'Be the Person You Ought to Be': A Convocation Speech to the Graduating Medical Student Class of 2020," The Linacre Quarterly. 88(2): 116-119. doi:10.1177/0024363920947265; PMID: 33897044 

Fernandes AK, Wilson S, Nalin AP, Philip A, Gruber L, Kwizera E, Sydelko BS, Forbis SG, Lauden S. (2021) "Pediatric Family-Centered Rounds and Humanism: A Systematic Review and Qualitative Meta-analysis," Hospital Pediatrics. 11(6): 636-649. doi: 10.1542/hpeds.2020-000240; PMID: 34021029. (Peer-reviewed) 

Wozniak, P. and Fernandes, AK. (2020) "A Conventional Revolution: The Ethical Implications of the Natural Progress of Neonatal Intensive Care to Artificial Wombs," Journal of Medical Ethics (18). doi: 10.1136/medethics-2020-106754; PMID: 33208478 

Hosie, A., Vacca, M., Fernandes, AK. (2020) "Why Family are Critical to the Care of the Sick," Ethics and Medics. 45(8): 1-3. 

Raphael, JJ., Vaca, MA, Hosie, A., Rodden, N., Fernandes, AK, and Ely, W. (2020) "Common, Difficult Questions about Providing Nutrition at End of Life: Bedside Application of Catholic Moral Teaching," Linacre Quarterly. 87(2): 122-130. PMID: 32549629

Fernandes, AK, Wilson, S., Kasick, R., Humphrey, L., Mahan, J., Spencer, S. (2020) "Team-Based Learning in Bioethics Education: Creating a Successful Curriculum for Residents in an Era of "Curricular Squeeze," Medical Science Educator: Special Issue Monograph on Team-Based Learning. 30: 649-658.  . 

Fernandes, AK, and Ecret, D. (2019) "The Effect of Hierarchy on Moral Silence in Healthcare: What Can the Holocaust Teach Us?," Conatus: International Journal of Philosophy, Special Issue: Bioethics and the Holocaust. 4(2): 21-43. doi:  

Radlicz, C. and Fernandes, AK. (2019) "Physician Conscience and Patient Autonomy: Are They Competing Interests?" Linacre Quarterly. February, 86(1): 139-141. PMID: 32431397 

Fernandes, AK. (2016) "A House Divided: Coerciveness within One's Own Tradition," Narrative Issues in Bioethics. 6(1): 15-18. PMID: 27346813 

Fernandes, AK. (2010) "The Loss of Dignity at the End of Life: Incommunicability as a Call and a Demand," National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly. Autumn, 3: 529-546. 

Fernandes, AK. (2010) "Suffering in the Context of Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: Transcending Job through Wojtyla's Anthropology," Christian Bioethics. 16(3): 1-17. 

Fernandes, AK. (2002) "The Power of Dissent: Pierce Butler and Buck v. Bell," Journal of Peace and Justice Studies. 12(1): 115-134. 

Fernandes, AK. (2001) "Assisted Suicide and the Philosophical Anthropology of Karol Wojtyla," Christian Bioethics. 7(3): 379-402; PMID: 12956163

Education

PhD (Philosophy-Bioethics): Georgetown University, 2008
MD: The Ohio State University College of Medicine, 2004
MA (Philosophy): Johns Hopkins University, 1999

Featured Content

My Favorite Quote: "The truth is like a lion. You don't have to defend it. Let it loose, and it will defend itself." – St. Augustine