Dr. Robert Daly’54 helps his colleagues honor and consider the moral implications of medical science. When he graduated from St. Lawrence 50 years ago with a bachelor’s degree in biology, Bob immediately continued his education at Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse, earning his medical degree in 1957. His career has focused on serving the upstate New York community as a clinical psychiatrist, and he has taught at Syracuse, where he is professor of bioethics, humanities and psychiatry. He was the first chair of the University Hospital Ethics Committee and of its Ethics Consultation Service. He is founder and president for the Institute for Ethics in Health Care, co-founder Consortium for Culture and Medicine and of the Syracuse Consortium for the Cultural Foundation of Medicine and president of the Institute for Ethics in Health Care. His work extends across the globe; he has lectured in Europe and China as well as throughout the United States. He serves as an editorial consultant for the Journal of the American Medical Association; Literature and Medicine; and of Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology and his writings appear in every major medical journal.

For his lifelong recognition of physician as moral agent and for his efforts in his profession to identify, understand and make good decisions about bioethical issues and problems, St. Lawrence University has honored Bob with the Sol Feinstone Award for Humanitarian Service..