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 received his PhD in bioethics from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome. His doctoral program was founded by the late Elio Cardinal Sgreccia and linked to the medical school and Gemelli teaching hospital.

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Joe Zalot, PhD
Joe Zalot, PhD

Joe joined The National Catholic Bioethics Center in 2017 and became Director of Education in 2023. In this role he oversees the NCBC Certification Program, Two-Day Seminars, Chaplain Program, and undergraduate “Introduction to Catholic Health Care Ethics” course. He also produces and hosts the Center’s Bioethics on Air podcast and has authored multiple statements, guides, and book chapters for NCBC publications.

Prior to the NCBC, he served from 2015 to 2017 as the regional director of ethics and spiritual care for Mercy Health–Cincinnati and also as a lecturer at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary/Athenaeum of Ohio. From 2004 to 2009 he was an assistant professor, and from 2009 to 2015 an assistant professor (with tenure), at Mount St. Joseph University in Cincinnati, where he taught courses in health care ethics, business ethics, sexual and reproductive ethics, and Christian Marriage.

Joe earned his PhD from Marquette University in 2002, an MEd from Boston College in 1997, an MEd from Springfield College in 1991, and a BA from St. Anselm College in 1989. 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