Georgina D. Campelia, PhD, HEC-C (she/they)

General research focuses on the intersection between healthcare and moral theory, particularly feminist ethics and virtue ethics. I investigate clinical practice through philosophical concepts (such as relational autonomy, epistemic justice and empathy) and with an eye towards underrepresented patient populations (e.g. patients who are female, transgender or gender nonconforming, pregnant, etc).

Select Recent Publications:

• Campelia, G. D., Bann, M., Kirkpatrick, J. N., & Dudzinski, D. M. (2025). Structures of Safety in Hospital Disposition: Five Ethical Responsibilities. The American Journal of Bioethics, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2025.2497973
• Campelia G, Kett J, Wightman A. “Relational Suffering and the Moral Authority of Love and Care,” Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, Forthcoming December 2020.
• Campelia, G., C. Abbe, L. Nichols, John K. Amory. ““Shared Risk” and the Ethics of Novel Male Contraceptives”, Contraception, Forthcoming May/June 2020.
• Campelia G, Feinsinger A. March 2020. “Creating Space for Feminist Ethics in Medical School,” HEC Forum, https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10730-020-09403-x. 
• Wightman, A., Tate, T. and Campelia, G. March 2020. “Pierre in the Clinic,” Pediatric Ethiscope. 
• Campelia, G., Kirkpatrick, J. December 2019. “Reinterpreting Informed Decision-Making through the Clinician-Patient Relationship,” Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 108(6):1610–1611. 
• Campelia, G., F. Barg, J. Kirkpatrick, S. Hull. Autumn 2019. “Care Labor in VAD Therapy: Some Feminist Concerns”, Perspectives in Biology & Medicine, 62(4): 64(4): 640-656.
• Montenegro, Roberto E., and Campelia, Georgina D. September 2019. “Ongoing Obstacles to Confronting Microaggressions in Medicine”, in “Microaggressions in Clinical Training and Practice”, Ed. Debjani Mukherjee. PM& R, 11(9): 1004-1012.
• Wightman, A., J. Kett, G. Campelia, B. Wilfond. May/June 2019. “The Relational Potential Standard: Rethinking Ethical Justification in Life-Sustaining Treatment for Children with Profound Neurodevelopmental Disabilities”, Hastings Center Report, 49(3): 18-25. DOI: 10.1002/hast.1003.
• Campelia, G., and T. Tate. March/April 2019. “Empathetic Practice: The Struggle & Virtue of Empathizing with a Patient’s Suffering”, Hastings Center Report, 49(2): 17-25. DOI: 10.1002/hast.989.
• Campelia, GD, DM Dudzinski. Forthcoming. “History and Development of Medical Ethics in the West”, Surgical Ethics. Springer Nature.
• Campelia, GD. 2017. “Empathic Knowledge: The Import of Empathy’s Social Epistemology”, Social Epistemology, 31(6): 530-544
• Campelia, GD, DM Dudzinski. 2017. “Destination Therapy: Choice or Chosen”,American Journal of Bioethics, 17(2): 18-19.
• “Integration without Reduction: What the Philosophy of Empathy can Learn from Mirror Neurons”, The Neuroethics Blog, AJOB Neuroscience(Jan 27, 2016) 

Select Recent Invited Talks and Seminars: 

• American Society for Bioethics & Humanities Annual Meeting, October 2020, “Deconstructing SOFA: When Racism Maximizes Privilege, Not Lives Saved.” Co-authors: Laura Webster, Edwin Lindo, and Nneka Sederstrom. (co-panelist) 
• Male Contraceptive Initiative Lemonade Stand Webinar (Durham NC), October 2020, ““Shared Risk” and the Ethics of Male Contraception,” Panel Presentation. (co-panelist) 
• Benjamin Rabinowitz Symposium in Medical Ethics for 2020: A virtual workshop on the topic of Emotions and Empathy, “Relational Suffering and the Moral Authority of Love and Care.” Co-authors: Jennifer Kett MD MA and Aaron Whightman MD MA. (presenter) 
• World Congress of Bioethics June 2020 (virtual meeting due to COVID-19), Symposium Presentation, “Population Aging in Sub-Saharan Africa: Epistemic Injustice,” Organized by Nancy Jecker PhD. 
• Academy of Professionalism in Health Care 2020 Conference. “Mapping an Interprofessional Approach for Clinical Ethics Education: From the Classroom to the Clinic” (co-panelist) and “Voices from the Margins: Including people in addiction recovery on hospital ethics committees” (co-panelist). (postponed to 2021 due to COVID-19) 
• American Society for Bioethics & Humanities Annual Meeting, October 2019, 
  • Discharging to the Street: When Homeless Patients Refuse Safer Options (paper presentation) 
  • Ethics Training in Medical School: Working Against the Tide of Intuitionism (co-panelist) 
• International Academy of Law and Mental Health Congress July 2019, 
  • Reproductive Health II: “A Principle of Interdependency: Care Ethics and Public Health Recommendations in Reproductive Health” (co-panelist) 
  • Cardiac Devices and the Emergence of HomoTechnologicus: Coming of Age with the Elderly: “MCS and its Impacts on Patients and Caregivers: Salvation and/or Purgatory?” (co-panelist) 
• Canadian Bioethics Society 2019 Conference. “Gendering Capacity: The Two-Sided Vulnerability of Survivors of Abuse”, Co-Author Lauren Flicker, JD, May 2019. 
• Academy for Professionalism in Healthcare 2019 Conference. “Gendering Capacity: The Two-Sided Vulnerability of Survivors of Abuse”, Co-Author Lauren Flicker, JD, May 2019.