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Why should
you choose Loyola?
The Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics
and Health Policy at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine is a pluralistic bioethics institute that draws upon the commitment to
social justice of the Jesuit and Roman Catholic heritage of the Stritch School of Medicine in its teaching,
research, and service. The Institute promotes the ideals of Jesuit
education in seeking to form “men and women for others” and
to make our classrooms a “home for all faiths.” Thus, while giving special regard to Catholic
health-care ethics in teaching and research, the Institute also fosters respectful dialogue among all
traditions represented in our student body and patient population.
 The Neiswanger Institute serves the
Stritch School of Medicine students, Loyola University
Health System clinicians, health-care professionals from Catholic
and nonsectarian health-care
systems across the nation, and medical
educators in the United States through educational programming,
timely conceptual and empirical research, and case consultation.
Two things distinguish the Neiswanger
Institute:
- A commitment to educating health-care professionals to be effective leaders for social
justice in medicine and society, and;
- A commitment to understanding and respecting the role of religious and
spiritual traditions, especially that of the school’s Roman
Catholic heritage, in health-care decision making.
 The primary values of the Neiswanger
Institute, a regard for social justice and a commitment to understanding the roles of religion and
spirituality on medicine, give rise to a research and teaching focus for institute faculty
that includes addressing racial and ethnic disparities in health care, fostering cultural humility
and competence, contributing to global health, promoting public health, and advocating
a renewal of medical professionalism that evidences a concern for the common good.
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