Dr. Rashad Rehman

Dr. Rashad Rehman (Ph.D. University of Toronto) serves on the Franciscan University faculty as an Assistant Professor of Philosophy (Graduate Status Faculty) and is Assistant Director of the Center for Bioethics, with primary research concentration in Bioethics, specifically areas concerning (biological) sex, gender, and surgery.

Dr. Rehman is a professionally trained bioethicist. During his doctoral studies at the University of Toronto where he completed the Collaborative Specialization in Bioethics, he had a Paediatric Urologist and Professor of Surgery serving as full committee member (alongside the philosophers), served as a TCPS2-certified member on the Social Science, Humanities and Education Research Ethics Board (SSHE REB) at The University of Toronto, a Research Volunteer at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) under a Critical Care Physician, and Bioethics Research Volunteer at Mount Sinai Hospital under a Junior and Senior Bioethicist.

Beyond Bioethics, Dr. Rehman is a Josef Pieper scholar, and has defended, in various places in-print and in his speaking, Pieper’s elegantly simple, humane, and plausible account of the philosophical act and the metaphysical primacy of creatura in St. Thomas Aquinas. Dr. Rehman has also created and taught, at Franciscan, the first ever semester-long course in the English-speaking world devoted to the philosophical writings of Pieper, Philosophical Texts of Josef Pieper (430A). Dr. Rehman is currently preparing a book-length manuscript on the philosophical thought of Pieper.

At Franciscan, he intends (on either the subjective or objective account of ‘intention’) to serve Christ in his teaching, research, and service.

Rashad is married to the woman of his dreams, Em, and together they have two children, their precious Edith, and their little arc-builder, Noah.