Charles J. Dougherty
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Charles J. Dougherty is the current President of Duquesne University. He was elected president by its Board of Directors in May 2001. Born in Brooklyn on June 28 1949, Dougherty has been educated in Catholic schools all his life, including St. Anthony’s High School in Smithton, NY. The oldest of four children, Dougherty was the first in his family to attend college.
Dougherty and his wife, Sandra, who is a judge on the Nebraska District Court in Douglas County, have two children: a daughter who is a Notre Dame and Georgetown University graduate working as a lawyer in Washington, D.C.; and a son, a Creighton alum who works as an employment counselor in Omaha.
Dougherty has worked with the Not-for-Profit Hospital Trustees Project at the Hastings Center and the New York Academy of Medicine, as well as the National Coalition on the Catholic Health Care. He has served on the Board of Trustees of the Catholic Health Association and the Board of Editors at both Creighton University Press and “Health Progress.” Dougherty has also served as a Commissioner for the State of Nebraska Accountability and Disclosure Commission, a government ethics panel.
He is a member of the Board of Directors of Mercy Hospital; Mercy Health Systems in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; The Allegheny Conference on Community Development; Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership; World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh; and the Urban League of Pittsburgh. He serves on the board of the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Pennsylvania and is the Chair of the President’s Committee of the Pittsburgh Council on Higher Education.
Dougherty has published extensively on the subject of ethics and health care. His publications on the subject include two books published by Oxford University Press and more than 50 scholarly articles.
He received his master’s and doctorate degrees in philosophy from the University of Notre Dame in 1973 and 1975; he received his bachelor’s degree in philosophy from St. Bonaventure University in 1971.
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