About Me

I am an Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics at Baylor College of Medicine and a practicing clinical ethicist (HEC-C) at Houston Methodist Hospital. 

I received my PhD in philosophy from the University of South Carolina in 2018, was a Lecturer at Clemson University from 2018-2020, chaired the Institutional Review Board at AnMed Health Medical Center in Anderson, SC from 2019-2020, and was a clinical ethics fellow at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics from 2020-2022. 

My research interests are currently focused on the biological validity of "brain death" declarations, the moral status of human life, and the ethical validity of the 'dead-donor rule' in organ transplantation. Other research investigates what sort of freedoms patients and their families are entitled to in light of a "brain death" declaration, the relevance of "double-effect" reasoning in medical ethics,  the ethical constraints on xenotransplant research, and how the clinical ethics consultant should be involved in complex hospital discharge cases. 

Non-academic interests include all things NASA, woodworking, Formula 1 racing, touring National Parks, listening to audiobooks, attending book clubs, and spending time with my family. 

My last name is pronounced "Oh-me-lee-an-chuck"