NCBC on the Air

“Bioethics on Air” Podcast CMS – The National Catholic Bioethics Center

• Bioethics on Air: Episode 122: Public Policy Challenges and Catholic Health Care – Part Two May 15, 2024
  Dr. Tim Millea, an orthopedic surgeon (retired) and Chair of the Catholic Medical Association’s (CMA) Health Care Policy subcommittee, joins Joe Zalot to discuss important ethical challenges facing Catholic health care in the United States, and the work of the CMA in addressing them. In part two of the interview, Tim addresses chemical abortion, transgenderism, […]
  Joe Zalot, PhD—Staff Ethicist
• Bioethics on Air: Episode 121: Public Policy Challenges and Catholic Health Care – Part One May 7, 2024
  Dr. Tim Millea, an orthopedic surgeon (retired) and Chair of the Catholic Medical Association’s (CMA) Health Care Policy subcommittee, joins Joe Zalot to discuss important ethical challenges facing Catholic health care in the United States, and the work of the CMA in addressing them. In part one of this interview, Tim discusses his work in […]
  Joe Zalot, PhD—Staff Ethicist
• Bioethics on Air: Episode 120: Dead Enough is Good Enough: Update on Determining Brain Death and NRP January 10, 2024
  Neurologist Christopher DeCock, MD, rejoins Joe Zalot to discuss the latest news on brain death. They discuss (a) the impact of the Uniform Law Commission placing on hold revision of the Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA), (b) the American Academy of Neurology’s (AAN) new and problematic guidelines for determining brain death, and (c) informed […]
  Joe Zalot, PhD—Staff Ethicist
• Bioethics on Air: Episode 119: Update on UDDA Revisions … and Concerns with Normothermic Regional Perfusion August 9, 2023
  Neurologist Christopher DeCock, MD, rejoins Joe Zalot to update listeners on efforts to redefine death by revising the Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA). He also discusses important medical and ethical concerns with normothermic regional perfusion. 
  Joe Zalot, PhD—Staff Ethicist
• Bioethics on Air: Episode 118: 'State of the Union' on Biomedical Research July 21, 2023
  Fr. Tad Pacholczyk joins Joe Zalot to update listeners on the state of—and ethical implications of—contemporary issues in biomedical research. Topics include stem cell research, 3-parent embryos, and synthetic embryos.  
  Joe Zalot, PhD—Staff Ethicist
• Bioethics on Air: Episode 117: Investigating Miraculous Healings at Lourdes … and a Pilgrimage July 6, 2023
  Karen O’Brien, MD, a member of the Lourdes Medical Bureau/International, joins Joe Zalot to discuss the process of determining the medical “inexplicability” of healings at Lourdes. Karen and Joe also announce a pilgrimage to Lourdes & Paris that they will lead in April 2024.  
  Joe Zalot, PhD—Staff Ethicist
• Bioethics on Air: Episode 116: Become a Consultations Fellow or Intern June 23, 2023
  In part 2 of his interview, John Di Camillo explains the rationale and purpose for the NCBC Consultations Department’s new Fellows and Interns program. He explains how one can become a fellow or intern as well as his goals for the program moving forward
  Joe Zalot, PhD—Staff Ethicist
• Bioethics on Air: Episode 115: Ethics Consults and the NCBC’s New Personal Consultations Department June 16, 2023
  In part 2 of his interview, John Di Camillo explains the rationale and  purpose for the NCBC’s new Fellows and Interns program. He also discusses what he learned in his first year directing the program, his goals for the program moving forward, and how one can become an NCBC fellow or intern.
  Joe Zalot, PhD—Staff Ethicist
• Bioethics on Air: Episode 114: Countering the Abortion Narrative - Part 2 June 5, 2023
  In the second half of her interview, Dr. Monique Ruberu discusses her work with the Abortion-Pill Reversal Network and 40 Days for Life.  
  Joe Zalot, PhD—Staff Ethicist
• Bioethics on Air: Episode 113: Countering the Abortion Narrative - Part 1 May 22, 2023
  Dr. Monique Ruberu, OB/GYN joins Joe Zalot to discuss the claim that abortion is health care, pro-life interventions for pregnancy complications, and the true impact of abortion on her patients.  
  Joe Zalot, PhD—Staff Ethicist
• Bioethics on Air: Episode 112: Chemical Abortion and the Courts May 12, 2023
  Attorney and law professor Elizabeth Kirk joins Joe Zalot to discuss recent (April 2023) federal court cases dealing with the chemical abortion drug mifepristone.
  Joe Zalot, PhD—Staff Ethicist
• Bioethics on Air: Episode 111: Fighting for Conscience and Religious Liberty at CVS April 26, 2023
  Attorney Jonathan Berry returns to Bioethics on Air to discuss Strader v. CVS, the case of a health care professional fired for refusing to prescribe contraceptive and abortifacient drugs.
  Joe Zalot, PhD—Staff Ethicist
• Bioethics on Air: Episode 110: Digesting the Doctrinal Note on Gender March 21, 2023
  NCBC ethicists Dr. Ted Furton and Dr. John Brehany join Joe Zalot to discuss the USCCB Doctrine Committee’s “Doctrinal Note on the Moral Limits to Technological Manipulation of the Human Body” and the impact it can have on Catholic health care.
  Joe Zalot, PhD—Staff Ethicist
• Bioethics on Air: Episode 109: Redefining Death by Revising the UDDA February 27, 2023
  Neurologist Christopher DeCock, MD, joins Joe Zalot to discuss how proposed changes to the Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA) could change the legal definition of brain death.
  Joe Zalot, PhD—Staff Ethicist
• Bioethics on Air: Episode 108: Celebrating 50 Years of the NCBC February 13, 2023
  Dr. John Haas, NCBC President Emeritus, and Dr. Joseph Meaney, our current President, join Joe Zalot to commemorate the Center’s accomplishments over its first fifty years and chart its course for the future.
  Joe Zalot, PhD—Staff Ethicist
• Bioethics on Air: Episode 107: Changing the Messaging and Mechanisms of Plan B – Part 2 January 30, 2023
  Dr. John Brehany, NCBC Director of Institutional Relations, joins Joe Zalot to discuss possible consequences of the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) revised messaging that Plan B is not an abortifacient.
  Joe Zalot, PhD—Staff Ethicist
• Bioethics on Air: Episode 106: Changing the Messaging and Mechanisms of Plan B – Part 1 January 18, 2023
  Dr. John Brehany, NCBC Director of Institutional Relations, joins Joe Zalot to discuss the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) revised messaging that Plan B is not an abortifacient.
  Joe Zalot, PhD—Staff Ethicist
• Bioethics on Air: Episode 105: Preserving Catholic Identity and Ethics in Employee Health Plans December 12, 2022
  Robert Smedley, President of the Matthias Group, joins Joe Zalot to discuss how Catholic employers can maintain Catholic identity and mission in their employee health benefits plans, focusing specifically on pharmaceuticals.
  Joe Zalot, PhD—Staff Ethicist
• Bioethics on Air: Episode 104: Bearing the Cross of Infertility November 28, 2022
  Dr. Marie Meaney joins Joe Zalot to discuss how her Catholic faith sustained her in her struggle with infertility, and inspired her to write the book When Expecting Doesn’t Happen: Turning Infertility into a Journey of Hope.
  Joe Zalot, PhD—Staff Ethicist
• Bioethics on Air: Episode 103: The Bishop and Catholic Health Care November 7, 2022
  Bishop John Barres, ordinary of the Diocese of Rockville Centre (Long Island)—along with canon lawyer Fr. Brandon O’Brien—discuss the bishop’s governance with regard to Catholic health care, as well as his role in fostering its Catholic identity and ethical integrity.
  Joe Zalot, PhD—Staff Ethicist