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Ryan Gillespie, PhD
BOARD ADVISOR
Lecturer & Researcher at UCLA
Dr. Ryan Gillespie is a Lecturer at UCLA in the Study of Religion. He writes and teaches at the intersection of moral disagreement, religion, and medicine/health. His work can be read in journals like Philosophy & Rhetoric, Harvard Theological Review, Journal of Medical Humanities, and the Journal of Clinical Ethics. His monograph, Organs For Sale: Bioethics, Neoliberalism, and Public Moral Deliberation (University of Toronto Press, 2021) examines the rhetorical construction of morals, medicine, and markets in debates about human organ procurement.
He serves as the faculty advisor for the undergraduate research journal UCLA Journal of Religion and also advises a student-run group, Speaking Out for Surgery.
Dr. Gillespie earned his PhD from the University of Southern California.