Edmund Pellegrino, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American academic
Date of Birth: 22-Jun-1920
Place of Birth: Newark, New Jersey, United States
Date of Death: 13-Jun-2013
Profession: physician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Edmund Pellegrino
- Edmund Daniel Pellegrino (June 22, 1920 - June 13, 2013) was an American bioethicist and academic who served as the 11th president of The Catholic University of America (CUA) from 1978 to 1982.
- For 35 years, Pellegrino was a distinguished professor of medicine and medical ethics and the Director of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University.
- Pellegrino was an expert both in clinical bioethics, and in the field of medicine and the humanities, specifically, the teaching of humanities in medical school, which he helped pioneer).
- He was the second layman to hold the position of President of Catholic University.He was the Chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics, under the 43rd U.S.
- President, George W.
- Bush, and was the founder of the Edmund D.
- Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics (renamed in his honor in 2013) at Georgetown University.
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