
Aaron Kheriaty
Fellow
Aaron Kheriaty, MD, is a Fellow & Director of the Program in Bioethics and American Democracy at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. He is a physician specializing in psychiatry and author of three books, including most recently, The New Abnormal: The Rise of the Biomedical Security State (2022).
Dr. Kheriaty also serves as Senior Scholar and Fellow at the Brownstone Institute, Senior Fellow at the Zephyr Institute, Chief of Medical Ethics at The Unity Project, Scholar at the Paul Ramsey Institute, Fellow at the National Catholic Bioethics Center, and he serves on the advisory board at the Simone Weil Center for Political Philosophy.
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. He also chaired the ethics committee at the California Department of State Hospitals for several years.
Dr. Kheriaty has authored books and articles for professional and lay audiences on bioethics, public health, 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, Compact, The New Atlantis, Public Discourse, City Journal, and First Things. He has conducted print, radio, and television interviews on bioethics topics with The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, NBC, CBS, CNN, Fox, NPR, EWTN, and Epoch TV.
On matters of public policy and healthcare he has addressed the California Medical Association and has testified before the California Senate Health Committee and the United States Senate. Dr. Kheriaty has consulted on Covid related ethical issues during the pandemic for the University of California Office of the President, the County of Orange Healthcare Agency, and the California Department of Public Health.
You can follow him on Twitter at @akheriaty and subscribe to his newsletter at AaronKheriaty.Substack.com
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May 28, 2025 | Daystar Television
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May 21, 2025 | The Lila Rose Show
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May 5, 2025 | Ave Maria Morning Offering
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April 7, 2025 | Victory News
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April 4, 2025 | Hillsdale College
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March 28, 2025 | The Drew Mariani Show
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March 27, 2025 | Undercurrent with Gabe Lyons
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March 20, 2025 | American Thought Leaders
AUDIO: Dr. Aaron Kheriaty discusses Vaccines, Autism, and Colon Cancer
March 11, 2025 | The Drew Mariani Show
VIDEO: Dr. Aaron Kheriaty on COVID Shots, Transhumanism, and AI
February 28, 2025 | The Lila Rose Show
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January 29, 2025 | Victory News
AUDIO: Dr. Aaron Kheriaty discusses “Make America Healthy Again”
January 10, 2025 | The First TV