Fr. Myles Sheehan has served as a member of the Bon Secours Mercy Health (“BSMH”) board of directors since its formation in September 2018. Fr. Sheehan previously served as a member of the Mercy Health Board of Directors as week as the Bon Secours Board of Directors.
Fr. Sheehan is a Jesuit priest, physician, and professor of medicine. He is currently director of the Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics and the David Lauler Chair of Catholic Health Care Ethics at Georgetown University Medical Center.
He joined the Center and the Georgetown Jesuit Community in January 2020. In 2018 he delivered the John Collins Harvey Lecture at the Fifth Annual Pellegrino Symposium. Fr. Sheehan previously served as assistant to the provincial for senior Jesuits, working alongside the provincial assistants for health care in overseeing Jesuit health care centers in the New England province. Prior to this role, Fr. Sheehan served as provincial of the New England Province of Jesuits from 2009 – 2014.
He was senior associate dean at Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine from 2000-2009.
Fr. Sheehan graduated from Dartmouth College in 1978 and from Dartmouth Medical School in 1981. He then trained in internal medicine at Beth Israel Hospital from 1981 – 1984 and received further training in geriatrics from 1989 – 1991 through the Harvard Geriatric Fellowship Program.
In 1985, he entered the Jesuits, Society of Jesus, New England Province and was ordained to the priesthood in 1994. Fr. Sheehan received a master’s in philosophy/health care ethics from Loyola University of Chicago in 1989 and a master’s in divinity from Weston Jesuit School of Theology in 1994. In 2017, Fr. Sheehan received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from John Carroll University in Cleveland. He also is a former member of the Catholic Health Association board of trustees.