About Me

I am an Assistant Professor 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 academic research interests focus on the criteria for determining death, xenotransplantation, emerging technologies in organ transplantation, and the ethics that govern deceased organ donation. He has recently published in ethics journals about philosophical and religious approaches to clinical ethics and updated a major encyclopedic resource on the definition of death. 

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

My last name is pronounced "Oh-me-lee-an-chuck" -- rhymes with "a million bucks"