Professor of Pharmacy Practice

Director, Center for Bioethics

sullivan@cedarville.edu

Dr. Dennis Sullivan is professor of pharmacy practice at Cedarville University, Cedarville, Ohio, where he teaches clinical ethics. After undergraduate training in chemistry, Dr. Sullivan received his M.D. from Case Western Reserve School of Medicine. He then completed five years of training in general surgery, after which he served in the U.S. Army as a surgeon in the U.S. Army at Fort Campbell, Kentucky.

Dr. Sullivan and his family worked for twelve years as missionaries with Baptist Mid-Missions, first in the country of Haiti, West Indies, then in the Central African Republic. A major civil conflict in C.A.R. in 1996 forced a return to the United States. Dr. Sullivan then joined the biology faculty at Cedarville University, where he developed courses in human anatomy and physiology, pathophysiology, developmental biology, and bioethics. He has been a full professor at Cedarville since 2003. In 2004, He completed his M.A. in bioethics from Trinity Graduate School. He now directs the university’s Center for Bioethics. Dr. Sullivan joined the School of Pharmacy in January, 2015.

Dr. Sullivan is a diplomate of the American Board of Surgery and a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He is a member of the American Medical Association, the Christian Medical Association, and the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity. He has authored numerous articles in Ethics and Medicine and other journals, especially in the area of human personhood.

He continues to travel, and has conducted two short-term medical trips to Africa, as well as two teaching tours of medical schools in the Republic of Vietnam. Dr. Sullivan is a frequent speaker on bioethics issues in churches, bioethics forums, universities, and medical schools.

Dr. Sullivan enjoys racquetball, biking, and woodworking. He and his wife Barbara live in Beavercreek, Ohio. They have three daughters.