Making the Cut

Aaron Kheriaty, MD, is a physician specializing in psychiatry and author of several books, including The New Abnormal: The Rise of the Biomedical Security State (Regnery, 2022). He is a Scholar and Director of the Program in Bioethics and American Democracy at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. Dr. Kheriaty received his undergraduate from the University of Notre Dame, earned his MD degree from Georgetown University, and completed residency training in psychiatry at the University of California Irvine. For sixteen years he was Professor of Psychiatry at UCI School of Medicine and Director of the Medical Ethics Program at UCI Health, where he chaired the ethics committee. While at UCI he was awarded the Excellence in Teaching Award three times by medical students. He also chaired the ethics committee at the California Department of State Hospitals for several years. Dr. Kheriaty has published over one hundred articles for professional and lay audiences on bioethics, public health, civil liberties, political theory, social science, psychiatry, philosophy, religion, and culture.