Joseph A. Raho, Ph.D.

Current Appointments:

• Clinical Ethicist, Ethics Center, UCLA Health, 4/2016 – present
• Vice Chair, UCLA Santa Monica Ethics Committee, 11/2021 – present
• Assistant Clinical Professor (Voluntary), Department of Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, 7/2022 – present

Areas of Expertise:

• Bioethics: Clinical ethics, especially end-of-life (medical futility, palliative sedation) and pediatric ethics; federal bioethics commissions

• Moral philosophy: Normative ethics; philosophy of medicine; narrative ethics

Education:

2016    UCLA Health Ethics Center, Los Angeles, CA, 09/2014 – 04/2016.

            Arny and Anne Porath Post-Doctoral Clinical Ethics Fellowship.

            Fellowship Director: James A. Hynds, LL.B., M.Th., Ph.D.

2014    Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy, 01/2010 – 07/2014.

            Awarded Ph.D. in philosophy, concentration in medical ethics (bioethics).

            Dissertation: Continuous Deep Sedation to Alleviate Existential Suffering at the End of Life: An                Ethical Analysis, 364 pp.

            Research Advisor: Sergio Bartolommei, Ph.D.

2009    Università per gli Stranieri di Perugia, Perugia, Italy, 06/2009 – 12/2009.

            Intensive language program for levels B1 and B2 (upper intermediate).

2005    Providence College, Providence, RI, 09/2001 – 05/2005.

            Awarded B.A. in philosophy, minor in economics.

            Thesis: Is Authentic Living Possible? An Exposition of Heidegger's Human Analytic: Da-sein,                                  Mitda-sein, and the They-self, 70 pp.

            Thesis Advisor: Peter Costello, Ph.D.