Edmund D. Pellegrino (1920-2013) was an American bioethicist and academic who served as the 11th president of The Catholic University of America from 1978-1982. For 35 years, Pellegrino was a distinguished professor of medicine and medical ethics at Georgetown University.G. Kevin Donovan is Professor Emeritus and immediate past Director of the Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics.David G. Miller is Associate Director for Academic Programs and Administrator at the Pellegrino Center.Claudia Ruiz Sotomayor is Chief of the Clinical Ethics Consultation service of the Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics, and an Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center.

"Pellegrino's contribution is significant, deeply relevant, surprisingly timely, and notably prescient. For this reason alone, the gathering of these essays together in one volume is a worthwhile project...demonstrates the cohesive thought of a serious and foundational figure in the field." - John Hardt, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine