Rev. Thomas A. Nairn, O.F.M., Ph.D., is
senior director of ethics for the Catholic Health Association of the United
States (CHA). He is a Franciscan priest. Before coming to CHA, he was the Erica
and Harry John Family Professor of Catholic Ethics at Catholic Theological Union
in Chicago and Director of its Health Care Mission Leadership Program. He holds
a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago Divinity School and has taught in several
schools the U.S. and also in Melbourne, Australia; Harare, Zimbabwe, and
Singapore. He has also been a board member of the Center of Compassionate Care
of the Illinois Catholic Health Association and of the journal Human
Development. He served as an ethical consultant for the CMSM/LCWR Task Force on
Health Care for Religious. He has published many articles on heath care ethics
and has recently edited two volumes on Cardinal Bernardin’s consistent ethic of
life.