1939 --- Born in Dayton, Ohio (U.S.A.).

Higher Education

1959-61 ---  Catholic University of America (Washington, D.C.), B.A. conferred.
1961-62 --- Catholic University of America (Washington, D.C.), M.A. conferred.
1962-63 --- The Athenaeum of Ohio (Cincinnati, OH).
1960-64 --- Xavier University (Cincinnati, OH), summer study, M.Ed. conferred.
1964-66 --- University of Toronto (Toronto, Canada), Ph.D. conferred in 1972.
    Doctoral Dissertation Topic: The Concept of Man in Teilhard de Chardin.
1984-85 --- University of Dayton (Dayton, OH), M.S. in Counseling conferred.

Employment

1964-present --- University of Dayton (Dayton, OH), currently holding rank of Professor in the Department of Philosophy.
Summer, 1968 --- Antioch College, National Science Foundation Visiting Professor.
1978-1984 --- Wilmington College (Wilmington, OH), Adjunct Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion and teaching in
    its extension program at the Lebanon Correctional Institution (Lebanon, OH).
1980-present --- Wright State University (Dayton, OH), School of Medicine, currently holding the rank of  Clinical AssociatE
    Professor in the Department of Community Health.
Jan-May 1983 --- Georgetown University Medical School (Washington, D.C.), Department of Community and Family Medicine,
    Visiting Professor.
1985-1993 --- University of Dayton, Chair, Department of Philosophy.
1985-1990 --- Grandview Hospital and Medical Center (Dayton, OH), Ethics Consultant.
1985-present ---Holy Cross Health System (South Bend, IN), Ethics Consultant to Four Member Institutions.
    St. John's Health System, Anderson IN (1985-97).
    Mt. Carmel Health, Columbus, OH (1987-97).
    Harbour Manor Care Center of St. John's, Noblesville, IN (1988 only).
    Holy Cross Care Services, South Bend, IN (1990-1991).
Fall, 1987 --- College of Mt. St. Joseph (Cincinnati, OH), Visiting Professor.
1988-1992 --- Mercy Health System (Cincinnati, OH), Ethics Consultant for Corporate and Clinical Ethics.
1990-1995 --- St. Joseph Hospital and Health Center (Kokomo, IN), Ethics Consultant.
1990-1992 --- Community Hospital (Springfield, OH), Ethics Consultant.
1993-present --- Grant Hospital (Columbus, OH), Ethics Consultant.
1994-1996 --- Wexner Heritage Village (Columbus, OH), Ethics Consultant.
1996-present --- Grandview Hospital and Medical Center (Dayton, OH), Ethics Consultant.
1996-present --- Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine (Grandview Campus, Dayton, Ohio), Adjunct Professor.

Other Related Activity

1995-present --- Columbus Physicians' Ethics Circle (Cofounder),  (Columbus, OH).

Teaching and Research Specializations

Bioethics, Social Philosophy, Business Ethics.

Special Honors

1984 --- Winner of citation as one of eight finalists in the National Professor of the Year Award competition sponsored by The Council for Advancement and Support of Education and the Carnegie Foundation.

Jan-May 1983 --- Visiting Research Scholar, The Kennedy Institute of Ethics --- Center for Bioethics, Georgetown University (Washington, D.C.). This included rounding on three services at Georgetown University Hospital --- Intensive Care, Internal Medicine, and Oncology (Lombardi Cancer Research Center) --- and two services at Children's Medical Center (Washington, D.C.) --- Hematology and Neonatal Intensive Care.

1982 --- Winner of Professor of the Year Award for Teaching Excellence, University of Dayton.

Selected Publications

Bioethics Website http://homepages.udayton.edu/~ulrich/bioethicsweb.html, which is an ongoing website containing analyses of  issues in Bioethics, legal cases in Bioethics, clinical cases for discussion, advance directive information, journal articles, teaching guides and links to national Bioethics websites..

The Patient Self-Determination Act: Meeting the Challenges in Patient Care. Georgetown University Press, 1999.

Ethical Issues in Medical Practice (Program Designer and Editor). A Healthcare Ethics Education Course for Medical Students at the Grandview Hospital and Medical Center Campus of Ohio University, College of Medicine, Dayton [Athens] OH, 1996. Third edition, 1999.

A Variety of Policies, Procedures, and Information Guides for Healthcare Institutions written from 1990 to the present. [Copies available upon request.]

Ethical Theory and Applied Ethics. Three Videos (2.5 hours) (with Raymond Herbenick and Paul Tibbetts), University of Dayton, Dayton, OH 1996.

Ethical Considerations and Clinical Decision-Making (Program Designer and Editor), A Healthcare Education Course for Medical Residents, Mt. Carmel Health, Columbus, OH, 1995.

"Long Term Care: Life's End: A Care Policy" (Coauthored with Klem Bartosik), Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Chicago Conference on Ethics in Healthcare Institutions, August, 1994.

"The Patient Self-Determination Act and Cultural Diversity," The Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, Summer, 1994.

"Caring for the Dying," St. John's Health System, Anderson, IN, 1993.

"Hospice Protocol Guidelines for Implementing Advance Directives," The Ohio Hospice Organization, Columbus, OH, 1991.

"A Model Protocol for the Patient Self-Determination Act," The Ohio Hospital Association, Columbus, OH, 1991.

The Patient Self-Determination Act: A Training Program for Health Care Professionals. Breckenridge Bioethics, Kettering, OH, 1991.

The Patient Self-Determination Act and 'Care to Residents at Life's End' Policy: A Training Manual for Staff. Holy Cross Care Services, South Bend, IN, 1991.

"Integrating Psychology and Philosophy in Teaching a Graduate Course in Ethics." (with Mark A. Fine, Ph.D.), Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, Vol. 19, No. 5, October 1988, pp.
542-546.

"Observations on Teaching," Distinguished Teachers on Effective Teaching, edited by Peter G. Beidler, Jossey-Bass, Inc., 1986.

"Clinical Cases" Twenty-one Cases Written for Application of Bioethical Principles for Biomedical Ethics (2nd edition) edited by Mappes and Zembaty, (McGraw-Hill, 1986).

"Health Care Technology and Human Values," Dayton Medicine, Vol. 38, No. 2, February 1982, pp. 25-28.

"Three Models of Responsibility for the Health Care Profession," The University of Dayton Review, Vol. 15, No. 2, Winter 1981-82, pp. 63-68.

"Mental Illness and the Dilemma of Behavior Control" in Biomedical Ethics, edited by Mappes and Zembaty, McGraw-Hill, 1981, pp. 478-489.

"Reproductive Rights and Genetic Disease" in Biomedical Ethics and the Law, edited by Humber and Almeder, Plenum Press (second edition), 1979, pp. 351-360.

Papers, Lectures, Workshops and Bioethics Intensives for Professional Groups

Over 200 papers/presentations have been given in this category to philosophical conferences, medical conferences, healthcare professionals (clinicians and administrators). These papers/presentations were given to local, regional, national, and international audiences. Topics addressed in these papers/presentations include the following (a detailed list is available upon request):

1. Advance Directives (Theory and Drafting).
2. Artificial Nutrition and Hydration.
3. Caring for the Elderly (Particular Ethical Issues).
4. Clinical Decision-Making.
5. Communication and Ethics.
6. Confidentiality.
7. CPR/DNR.
8. Definition of Death.
9. Developing Institutional Policies.
10. Ethical Decision-Making.
11. Ethics Committees (Their Formation, Tasks, and Dynamics).
12. Ethics Consultations.
13. End-of-Life Decisions.
14. Euthanasia.
15. Futility and Futility Policies.
16. Genetic Engineering.
17. Informed Consent.
18. Managed Care.
19. Managing Healthcare Technology.
20. The Patient Self-Determination Act.
21. Patient Dignity.
22. Patients' Rights.
23. Physician-Assisted Suicide and the Courts' Decisions.
24. Physician-Patient Relationship.
25. Procedures for Implementing the Patient Self-Determination Act.
26. Professionalism and the Authority of the Professional.
27. Resource Allocation.
28. Teaching Medical Ethics.
29. Terminal Illness.
30. Terminating Treatment.
31. Virtues of Patients and Professionals.

Current Research in Progress

 The Enlightened Dying: Managing the Process of Dying in the Institutions of Medicine.

"The Authority of the Physician."

"The Patient Self-Determination Act and Advance Directives" [Jointly authored with Prof. Dr. Kurt Schmidt].