Executive Vice President and Director of Institutional Relations
215-871-2015 | jbrehany@ncbcenter.org

Dr. Brehany joined The National Catholic Bioethics Center in January 2015. He leads implementation of the NCBC’s Catholic Identity and Ethics Review (CIER) program, a comprehensive, in-depth assessment program for Catholic health care based on the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services. Dr. Brehany also serves as a consultant on a range of clinical and institutional issues and teaches in the NCBC’s certification program.

From 2006 to 2014, he served as executive director and ethicist of the Catholic Medical Association. From 2000 to 2006, Dr. Brehany was executive director of mission services and ethics for Mercy Medical Center, Sioux City, Iowa. Dr. Brehany taught systematic and moral theology at Mount Angel Seminary in St. Benedict, Oregon (1991–1997), as well as courses in medical ethics at other institutions, including Saint Louis University Schools of Medicine and Public Health, the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, and the University of Mary. 

Dr. Brehany received a PhD in health care ethics from Saint Louis University, an STL from the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family in Washington, DC, an MA in philosophy from University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas, and his BA from the University of San Francisco.