John Paris is the Walsh Professor of Bioethics at Boston College. He is also Clinical Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health at Tufts Medical School.
Fr. Paris served as consultant to the President's Commission for the Study of Ethics in Medicine, the United States Senate Committee on Aging, and the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment. He has published over 150 articles on the area of law, medicine, and ethics in publications as The New England Journal of Medicine, The Journal of the American Medical Association, The Journal of Intensive Care Medicine, and The Wall Street Journal. He is the Ethics Section Editor for The Journal of Perinatology.
Fr. Paris served as a consultant and expert witness in many landmark biomedical cases including Quinlan, Brophy, Jobes, Baby K, and Gilgunn.