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Fr. Michael Baggot

Professor Aggregato of Bioethics, the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum, Rome, Italy

Fr. Michael Baggot is an Associate Professor of Bioethics at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum and an Invited Professor of Theology at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (the Angelicum) and the Catholic Institute of Technology. He is also a professor for the Joint Diploma in Leadership: Service through Virtues and the Catholic Worldview Fellowship summer program.

He was an Adjunct Professor of Theology at the Christendom College Rome program from 2018-2022. In addition, Baggot is a Research Scholar at the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights, a fellow of the Fr. James L. Heft, SM Generations in Dialogue programat the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies at the University of Southern California, and a member of the Scholarly Advisory Board for Magisterium AI. His writings have appeared in First Things, Studia Bioethica, The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, Nova et Vetera, and Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy. He is also a member of the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of Ethics and Emerging Technologies and the International Journal of Technoethics. Baggot is the chief editor of and a contributor to the book Enhancement Fit for Humanity: Perspectives on Emerging Technologies(Routledge, 2022). His media work includes appearances on NBC, ETWN, The Future of Life Institute, PBS, Pints with Aquinas, and on his co-hosted YouTube channel Those Two Priests. Baggot also frequently serves as chaplain for The Catholic Traveler pilgrimage organization.