CCBI Staff

Executive Director: Eoin Connolly

Eoin is the Executive Director of the Canadian Catholic Bioethics Institute and Adjunct Professor in Bioethics at the University of Toronto. He has been a Bioethicist for over twenty years at St. Joseph’s Hospital, Trillium Health Partners and most recently, Mount Sinai Hospital. Eoin has taught Bioethics to undergraduate, graduate and medial students at the University of Toronto for over 10 years. His research interests include Roman Catholic bioethics, organizational ethics and critical care ethics.

Program Director: Patricia Murphy

Dr. Murphy is an Associate Professor of Moral Theology at St. Augustine’s Seminary in Toronto and Program Director at the Canadian Catholic Bioethics Institute. Since 2004, she has taught courses on the foundations of moral theology, bioethics, human sexuality and marriage and the philosophy of Catholic education at St. Augustine’s Seminary. Her students include seminarians, men in the Permanent Diaconate Formation Program and lay women and men in the Institute of Theology. She speaks regularly on a range of moral questions to a variety of audiences.