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Georgetown’s Kevin FitzGerald named to Pontifical Council for Culture

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KEVIN FITZGERALD, a Jesuit priest, Georgetown bioethicist and cancer researcher, has been appointed by Pope Francis to serve as a consultor to the Pontifical Council for Culture.

FitzGerald, a research associate professor in the department of oncology and the David P. Lauler Chair for Catholic Health Care Ethics at Georgetown University Medical Center, began his five-year term July 1 as one of 34 newly appointed consultors from around the world.

FitzGerald will advise the council on areas including bioethics, genetics, neuroscience and transhumanism, which refers to a movement that seeks to transcend the human condition through technology, artificial intelligence and other related concepts.

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