Kevin W Wildes, S.J.
Loyola University President, July 1, 2004-
The Rev. Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J., President
The Rev. Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J., formally assumed the duties of the university's 16th president effective July 1, 2004. He replaced the Rev. William J. Byron, S.J., who had served as interim president since October 7, 2003. Wildes is an expert in medical ethics and has extensive teaching and research experience, having taught at Loyola College in Maryland, University of Houston, Georgetown University Medical Center, and Georgetown University.
Prior to his appointment as president, Wildes was an associate dean of Georgetown College at Georgetown University and an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy of Georgetown University. He held a secondary appointment as assistant professor in the Department of Medicine at the Georgetown University School of Medicine. He also served as a senior research scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and the Center for Clinical Bioethics at Georgetown.
After entering the Society of Jesus in 1976, he was ordained a priest in 1986. Wildes holds advanced degrees in theology from the Weston School of Theology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and in philosophy from Fordham University and Rice University. He received a doctorate from Rice University in 1993; and his dissertation was on the foundations of bioethics. He serves as associate editor of the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, as associate editor of the Philosophy and Medicine book series, and as co-editor of the Clinical Medical Ethics book series and the book series Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture. He was a founding editor of The Journal of Christian Bioethics.
Wildes is the author of Moral Acquaintances: Methodology in Bioethics. He is also the editor or co-editor of four books: Birth, Suffering, and Death: Catholic Perspectives at the Edges of Life; Critical Care and Critical Choices: Catholic Perspectives on Allocating Resources in Intensive Care Medicine; Choosing Life: A Dialogue on Evangelium Vitae; and Infertility: A Crossroad of Faith, Medicine, and Technology. Additionally, he has delivered a number of invited lectures and papers and has written widely on bioethics and public policy. Official inauguration ceremonies were held on October 15.