Aaron Kheriaty

Aaron Kheriaty, MD, is the Director of the Bioethics, Technology, and Human Flourishing Program at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. He is a physician specializing in psychiatry who has published over one hundred articles and five books, including most recently, Making the Cut: How to Heal Modern Medicine.

Dr. Kheriaty graduated from the University of Notre Dame in philosophy and pre-medical sciences, earned his MD degree from Georgetown University, and completed residency training in psychiatry at the University of California Irvine. For many years he was Professor of Psychiatry at UCI School of Medicine and Director of the Medical Ethics Program at UCI Health, where he chaired the ethics committee. For several years he also chaired the Ethics Committee at the California Department of State Hospitals.

Dr. Kheriaty has authored over one hundred articles for professional and lay audiences on bioethics, public health, civil liberties, political theory, social science, psychiatry, philosophy, religion, and culture. His work has been published in the Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Newsweek, The Federalist, Tablet, Compact, The New Atlantis, The Claremont Review of Books, The American Mind, City Journal, The Free Press, and First Things. He has conducted print, radio, and television interviews with The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, NBC, CBS, CNN, Fox, NPR, EWTN, and Epoch TV.

Dr. Kheriaty was a plaintiff in the successful landmark free speech case Missouri v. Biden. For his work challenging government censorship the journalist Matt Taibbi called him “the most ambitious theorist of the censorship-industrial age.”

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