Laurence B. McCullough, Ph.D., is Emeritus Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Zucker School of Medicine of Hofstra/Northwell, Hempstead, New York (July 2021).  He and Frank A. Chervenak, M.D. completed their 38-year collaboration in professional ethics in obstetrics and gyneoclogy in 2021.  They co-authored 3 books and co-edited 3 books and published more than 300 papers in the peer-reviewed literature.  Their Professional Ethics in Obstetrics and Gynecology, co-authored with John H. Coverdale, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Ethics at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, was published in 2020 by Cambridge University Press.

Dr. McCullough became Distinguished Emeritus Professor in the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, in July 2016, having retired after 28 years on Baylor’s faculty.  In 2008 he became the inaugural holder of the Dalton Tomlin Chair in Medical Ethics and Health Policy.  He was also Professor of Medicine and Medical Ethics and a Faculty Associate of the Huffington Center on Aging.  He held medical staff appointments at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center, Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and Texas Children’s Hospital.  He won an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (1995-1996) in a national competition.  He is an elected a Fellow the Gerontological Society of America (1997) and of the Hastings Center (2003).  Dr. McCullough served as president of the Society for Health and Human Values (1987-1988), now merged into the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities.

In December 2012, Baylor College of Medicine recognized Dr. McCullough’s contributions to medical education with its peer-reviewed Fulbright & Jaworski Faculty Excellence Award and membership in Baylor’s Academy of Distinguished Educators.  In May 2013, Baylor named Dr. McCullough one of the two annual recipients of its highest teaching award, the Barbara and Corbin J. Robertson, Jr., Presidential Award for Excellence in Education.  In January 2014, he received the Baylor Pediatric Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Non-Pediatric Faculty Member from Baylor’s Department of Pediatrics.

Dr. McCullough has more than 600 publications in the peer-reviewed literature and more than 80 invited original chapters in scholarly volumes.  He has written or co-written 9 books and edited or co-edited 10 books.  The Cambridge World History of Medical Ethics (Cambridge University Press 2009; Paperback 2018), co-edited with Professor Robert Baker of Union College (Schenectady, New York), was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title in 2009.  His final book, Thomas Percival’s Medical Ethics and the Invention of Professionalism in Medicine, was published by Springer in 2022.

Dr. McCullough’s research as Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator was funded by the National Institutes of Health, The National Endowment for the Humanities, NASA, Veterans Health Affairs, American Council of Learned Societies, American Philosophical Society, Texas Committee for the Humanities, The Hastings Center, the Milbank Memorial Fund, and the Littauer and Earhart Foundations.