James J. Walter, Ph.D. 

Austin & Ann O'Malley Professor 

of Bioethics 

Chair, The Bioethics Institute

Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts

 

The Bioethics Institute 

Master of Arts in Bioethics

PUBLIC LECTURES &

MEDIA INTERVIEWS

PUBLIC LECTURES

Approximately 475 public lectures or papers presented to the following audiences:

  • university audiences
  • professional symposia
  • medical centers
  • lawyers
  • nurses
  • educators
  • religious communities

These lectures were delivered in Europe, Asia, and around the U.S.A. on bioethical issues.
 

MEDIA INTERVIEWS

My interviews have been broadcast on or published in the following:

  • National Public Radio on 1/14/88 & 7/13/94
  • The New York Times on 1/12/88
  • WMAQ-TV Channel 5 Evening News in Chicago on 5/20/87 & 9/12/96
  • GAMUT [WMAQ-TV 30-minute program in Chicago] on 1/31/88 & 2/7/88
  • "Lifestyle" [live, one-hour television program on Continental Cable Vision Network in Elmhurst, IL] on 6/21/90
  • WBEZ public radio station in Chicago on 8/23/91 & 4/28/92
  • CNN's international television news program Primenews on 10/25/93
  • WKBM Radio in Wilmington, IL  on 7/26/96
  • Österreichisher Rundfunk (Austrian cultural radio station) on 12/5/97
  • WMYS Radio in Indianapolis, IN on 11/23/98
  • National Catholic Reporter on 10/15/99, 10/22/99, 7/14/00 & 8/28/00
  • Fox News Channel in Los Angeles and nationally on 6/26/00
  • The Catholic News Service in Washington, D.C. on 6/27/00
  • The Daily Breeze (Torrance, CA) on 9/7/00
  • Bavarian Radio Station (Germany) on 9/20/00
  • The Tidings of Los Angeles on 8/19/00 &  2/08/01
  • Fox News Television Channel concerning the engineering of children on 10/30/00
  • KNX News Radio, Los Angeles, on the establishment of The Bioethics Institute at LMU on11/12/00.
  • The Wall Street Journal for an article on embryonic stem cell research on 03/13/01.
  • Lezza Gibbons on EXTRA concerning funding for embryonic stem cell research on 5/23/01.
  • The Los Angeles Times on the requirement that Catholic theologians have a mandatum on 6/19/01.
  • FOX Network on the religious and ethical dimensions of human cloning on 7/03/01.
  • The Los Angeles Times on the public funding of embryonic stem cell research on 7/10/01.
  • Interviewed by The Tidings for an article on embryonic stem cell research on 7/16/01.
  • Interviewed live on KCET public T.V. (Life & Times Program) on President Bush’s decision on publicly funding embryonic stem cell research on 7/17/01.
  • Interviewed by The Tidings for an article on therapeutic cloning for stem cell research on 5/6/02.
  • Interviewed by The Tidings for an article on embryo adoption on 9/16/02.
  • Interviewed by The Tidings for an article on California's new law to permit embryonic stem cell research on 9/23/02.
  • Telephone interview on transplantation of organs with Terese Watanabe of The Los Angeles Times on 10/09/02.
  • Telephone interview on the ethics of transgenic animal research with Cody Eller of Associated Press on 01/09/03.
  • Interview for the Associated Press Television News on the recent report published in Fertility and Sterility on cryopreserved embryos in the U.S.  Aired internationally in June 2003.
  • Television interview with Bob Abernethy from the PBS program “Religion & Ethics News Weekly” on the case of Terri Schiavo, who is in Persistent Vegetative State in Florida and whose husband wants to withdraw her feeding tube.  Aired in October 2003.
  • KCOX in Los Angeles on the human genome project.  March 2004.
  • The National Catholic Reporter interview on artificially-delivered nutrition and hydration to PVS patients.  March 2004.
  • Television interview with Fuji News Network in Japan on the ethical issues connected to the cloning of animals.  Aired in Japan in June 2004.
  • Telephone interview with Vincent Schodolski of the Chicago Tribune concerning California Proposition 71, which will raise from public funds over $3 billion in California for embryonic stem cell research.  July 2004.
  • Telephone interview with The Washington Post on the withdrawing of the feeding tube from Terri Schiavo in Florida.  Published on March 27, 2005.
  • Telephone interview with The Chicago Tribune on the ethical heritage of Pope John Paul II.  Published on April 6, 2005.
  • Television interview with NBC TODAY on the bioethical issues related to “designer babies” created by the international company Scandinavian Cryobank for sperm donation.  Aired on June 16, 2005.
  • Interview with James Fowler from the Fort Worth Weekly on Charles E. Curran’s impact on the Catholic Church in the 20th century.  January 11, 2006.
  • KTLA Television interview on “Designer Babies.”  (Aired February13, 2006)

ˇ         Telephone interview with Mark Austin Thomas of KNX Radio (CBS affiliate) concerning the cloning of a human embryo by scientists in San Diego, CA, January 18, 2008.

ˇ         Telephone bioethics consultation with the bioethics committee concerning a quadriplegic patient who was ventilator-dependent and who wanted to withdraw the ventilator to die, Providence Holy Cross Medical Center, Mission Hills, CA, June 25, 2008.

ˇ         Live one-hour telephone interview on contemporary issues in bioethics with Dr. Vikki Hufnagel, MD, on the New York Radio (WBAI) Program My Hippocrates, July 10, 2008.


 

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