Doctor, Doctor Podcast: Episode 137: Ethical Medicine in Times of Crisis—with NCBC's Joseph Meaney and Joe Zalot

President of the National Catholic Bioethics Center Joseph Meaney, PhD, and NCBC staff ethicist Dr. Jozef (Joe) Zalot talk about the importance of ethical treatment being maintained even during time of crisis and what ethical medical practice should consider such as who should and shouldn’t be given a ventilator when they are scarce or how vaccines should be researched and produced.

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Joseph Meaney, PhD, KM
Joseph Meaney, PhD, KM

Joseph Meaney became president of the NCBC in 2019. He received his PhD in bioethics from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome; his dissertation topic was Conscience and Health Care: A Bioethical Analysis. Dr. Meaney earned his master’s in Latin American studies, focusing on health care in Guatemala, from the University of Texas at Austin. His bachelor’s degree was in history from the University of Dallas. Dr. Meaney was director of international outreach and expansion for Human Life International (HLI) and is a leading expert on the international pro-life and family movement, having traveled to eighty-one countries on pro-life missions. He founded the Rome office of HLI in 1998 and lived in Rome for nine years, where he collaborated closely with dicasteries of the Holy See, particularly the Pontifical Council for the Family and the Pontifical Academy for Life. He is a dual US and French citizen and is fluent in French, Spanish, Italian, and English. His family has been active in the health care and pro-life fields in Corpus Christi, Texas, and in France for many years.

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Joe Zalot, PhD
Joe Zalot, PhD

Jozef Zalot joined The National Catholic Bioethics Center as a staff ethicist in July 2017. He served from 2015 to 2017 as the regional director of ethics and spiritual care for Mercy Health–Cincinnati and also served as a lecturer at the Athenaeum of Ohio/Mount St. Mary’s Seminary, where he taught courses in medical ethics and morality and justice in Catholic life. From 2004 to 2015, Dr. Zalot was a tenured professor at Mount St. Joseph University in Cincinnati, where he taught courses in health care ethics, business ethics, sexual and reproductive ethics, introduction to Catholic theology, and marriage. He has written two books and various articles and reviews, and he presents at academic conferences both domestically and internationally.

NCBC EthicistsCOVID-19, Catholic Health Care, Vaccines and Vaccination