Pope Benedict XVI has named a 47-year-old Canadian physician and specialist in bioethics to the Pontifical Academy for Life.The nomination of Dr. William F. Sullivan, 47, president of the International Association of Catholic Bioethicists, was announced Aug. 2 by the Vatican.
Sullivan specializes in family medicine and ethics in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto.
He also serves as director of family medicine in the Division of Biomedical Services and Research at Surrey Place Centre in Toronto.
Also Aug. 2, the Vatican announced the appointment to the academy of Auxiliary Bishop Fernando Chomali Garib of Santiago, Chile, a professor of theology and bioethics at the Catholic University of Santiago, and of Dr. Kvetoslav Sipr, a professor of family medicine at Palacky University in Olomouc, Czech Republic, and director of a natural family planning center in Brno.
Pope John Paul II established the pontifical academy in 1994 to help the church respond to biomedical issues and questions of human life and dignity.
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