Dr. FitzGerald, Research Associate Professor in the Department of Oncology at Georgetown University Medical Center, came to Georgetown from a position at Loyola University Medical Center in Illinois. He received a PhD in molecular genetics and a PhD in bioethics from Georgetown University. During his five years at Loyola, his research efforts focused on the investigation of abnormal gene regulation in cancer and research on ethical issues in human genetics. He has published both scientific and ethical articles in peer-reviewed journals, books, and in the popular press.

Fr. FitzGerald has given presentations nationally and internationally and has often been interviewed by the news media on topics such as human genetic engineering, cloning, stem cell research, and the Human Genome Project. For the past ten years he has served as an ethics consultant for the National Society of Genetic Counselors. He is a consultant to the March of Dimes Ethics Committee, the United States Catholic Conference, and is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Program of Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion. In July 2004 Fr. FitzGerald was named to the external Biotechnology Advisory Panel of the DuPont Corporation.

Selected Publications:

"Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research: Ethics in the Face of Uncertainty". in Stem Cell Research: New Frontiers in Science and Ethics. Edited by Nancy Snow, Notre Dame University Press. 2004

"Questions Concerning the Current Stem Cell Debate", The American Journal of Bioethics, Winter 2002 Vol 2, No. 1 pp. 49-50.

"Knowledge and Wisdom: Human Genetic Interventions with Religious Insight." St. Thomas Law Review. Vol 13, No. 4. pp. 913-925, Summer 2001

"Cloning: Can it be Good for Us?" in Human Cloning: Papers from a Church Consultation, edited by Roger Willer; Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, 2001.

"Philosophical Anthropologies and the HGP," in Controlling Our Destinies: The Human Genome Project from Historical, Philosophical, Social, and Ethical Perspectives, edited by Phillip R. Sloan; Notre Dame University Press, 2000.

"Biogenetics and Technology: How Will the Race be Won?" in The Genome: Plant, Animal, Human, edited by Robert Brungs and Marianne Postiglione; ITEST Faith/Science Press, St. Louis, MO, 2000.

Kevin T. FitzGerald and Manuel O. Diaz, "MLL2: A New Mammalian Member of the trx/MLL Family of Genes." Genomics 59, 187-192, 1999.

"Proposals for Human Cloning: A Review and Ethical Evaluation," in Health Care Ethics: Critical Issues for the 21st Century, edited by John F. Monagle and David C. Thomasma; Gaithersburg, Maryland: Aspen Publishers, Inc., 1998.

"Human Cloning: Analysis and Evaluation," Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, vol. 7, no. 2, Spring 1998, p. 218-222.

FitzGerald, K.T., Bazar, L., Avigan, MI., "GATA-6 stimulates a cell-line specific activation element in the human lactase promoter." The American Journal of Physiology, 1998 Feb., vol. 274(2 Pt1), p. G314-G324.

"Little Lamb Who Made Thee?," America, vol. 176, 3/29/97, p. 3.

Co-author, "An Explication of the National Society of Genetic Counselors (NSGC) Code of Ethics," Journal of Genetic Counseling, vol. 1, no. 1, p. 31-39.

Co-author, "Code of Ethics," National Society of Genetic Counselors, August, 1991.

Blancato, J. Kuzava, FitzGerald, K.T., George, J., Meck, J.M., "Validation of the use of the biotinylated X-chromosome specific probe (p5060B.5) for rapid sex determination in aminocytes and cultured villus cells." The American Journal of Human Genetics, Sept. 1990, 47:3 supp., p. A268.

Judith Benkendorf and Kevin FitzGerald, "Genetic Counseling for Addicted Obstetric Patients," Journal of Clinical Ethics, Summer 1990, vol. 1, no. 2, p. 156.

Contact information:


The David Lauler Chair in Catholic Health Care Ethics
Center for Clinical Bioethics
Georgetown University
Box 571409
Washington, DC 20057-1409
Tel: 202/687-5473
FAX: 202/687-8955
ktf3@georgetown.edu