Aaron Kheriaty

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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).

 

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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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March 28, 2023 | Houston Centre for Humanity and the Common Good

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March 17, 2023 | EDIFY podcast

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February 28, 2023 | The Saad Truth

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February 22, 2023 | Ask Dr. Drew

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February 6, 2023 | The Daily Signal Podcast

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January 17, 2023 | The Ben Domenech Podcast

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Aaron Kheriaty on COVID-19, Shutdowns, and Emergency Powers

January 2, 2023 | First Things

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VIDEO: Aaron Kheriaty on The Rise of the Biomedical Security State

December 30, 2022 | First Things

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November 2, 2022 | Ask Dr. Drew

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November 1, 2022 | Geopolitics and Empire

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VIDEO: Aaron Kheriaty on the Flawed Covid Response

October 18, 2022 | EDIFY

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VIDEO: Aaron Kheriaty with Dan Bongino

July 23, 2022 | Unfiltered with Dan Bongino

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