Bobier, Christopher
Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Biography
Dr. Bobier is an Associate Professor and Co-Director of the longitudinal M1/M2 Medicine and Society course. An ethicist and health policy expert by training, he earned his MA and PhD from the University of California, Irvine, and his MHHSA from Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota. His research interests include ethics and regulation of xenotransplantation, the use of animals in medical research and training, and the role of false hope in medicine.
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Publications & Presentations
Bobier C, Hurst DJ, Obeid J (2025). Artificial intelligence, pharmaceutical development and dual-use research of concern: a call to action. Journal of medical ethics.
Hurst DJ, Bobier C (2025). Medical Sanctions and Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Companies: Extending Gross' Conclusion. The American journal of bioethics : AJOB.
Bobier, C, Obeid, J (2025). The US healthcare system facilitates medical conspiracy theories: A call to action Ethics, Medicine and Public Health.
Bobier C, Hurst DJ, Rodger D (2025). Should Xenotransplantation Surgeries Be Authorized Under the Food and Drug Administration's Expanded Access Pathway? AMA journal of ethics.
Christopher Bobier, Daniel J. Hurst (2025). Dual use research and artificial intelligence AI & Society.
Bobier C, Gibson RB, Merlocco A, Rodger D, Hurst DJ (2025). Xenotransplantation as a business solution to the organ shortage. Bioethics.
Christopher Bobier, Adam Omelianchuk, Daniel Rodger, Daniel Hurst (2025). Collective Consent to Xenotransplantation: A Critical Appraisal Public Health Ethics.
Daniel Hurst, Anthony Merlocco, Luz Padilla, Chris Bobier (2025). Argument for allowing first-in-human cardiac xenotransplantation clinical trials in paediatric patients Journal of Medical Ethics.
Bobier, C, Milburn, J (2024). Eating Food Produced in Harmful Ways: Wrongful Complicity or Moral Tragedy? Journal of Applied Animal Ethics Research,.
Christopher Bobier, Daniel J. Hurst (2024). Clarifying Dual Use Research of Concern Philosophy & Technology.
Bobier C (2024). Ethical xenotransplant research on human brain-dead decedents. Bioethics.
Rodger D, Mack J, Bobier C, Padilla L, Hurst DJ (2024). Xenotransplantation clinical trials: Should patients with diminished capacity be permitted to enroll? Xenotransplantation.
Bobier CA (2024). A Rule-Based Solution to Opaque Medical Billing in the U.S. The Journal of law, medicine & ethics : a journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics.
Bobier C, Hurst DJ, Rodger D (2024). Xenotransplantation under the Food and Drug Administration's Expanded Access pathway. American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons.
Bobier C (2024). Equitable Participant Selection Concerns for First-In-Human Whole-Eye Transplantation. The American journal of bioethics : AJOB.
Hurst DJ, Padilla L, Merlocco A, Rodger D, Bobier C, Gray WH, Sorabella R, Cooper DKC, Pierson RN (2024). Pediatric Cardiac Xenotransplantation: Recommendations for the Ethical Design of Clinical Trials. Transplantation.
Bobier C (2024). Risky first-in-human clinical trials on medically fragile persons: owning the moral cost. Theoretical medicine and bioethics.
Rodger D, Hurst DJ, Bobier CA, Symons X (2024). Genetic disenhancement and xenotransplantation: diminishing pigs' capacity to experience suffering through genetic engineering. Journal of medical ethics.
Hurst DJ, Bobier C (2024). Does Xenotransplantation Offer a Large Benefit for Human Patients? The Thoracic and cardiovascular surgeon.
Bobier C, Hurst DJ, Rodger D, Omelianchuk A (2024). Xenograft recipients and the right to withdraw from a clinical trial. Bioethics.
Bobier C, Reinhardt N, Pawlowski K (2024). Animal rights, animal research, and the need to reimagine science. The New bioethics : a multidisciplinary journal of biotechnology and the body.
Rodger D, Hurst DJ, Bobier CA, Symons X (2024). Defending genetic disenhancement in xenotransplantation. Journal of medical ethics.
Bobier C, Rodger D, Hurst DJ (2024). Xenotransplantation and lifelong monitoring. American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons.
Bobier C, Omelianchuk A, Hurst DJ (2024). The promise of xenotransplantation: a challenge. Journal of medical ethics.
C. Bobier, D. Hurst (2024). Battlefield Triage: A Resolvable Moral Tragedy Voices in Bioethics.
Bobier C (2024). The focus account of false hope. Medicine, health care, and philosophy.
Hurst DJ, Bobier C, Merlocco A, Padilla LA, Rodger D, Cleveland D, Cleveland JD (2024). Pediatric Cardiac Xenotransplantation and Expanded Access: Ethical Considerations. Pediatric transplantation.
Christopher Bobier (2024). Xenotransplantation and Ethical Stewardship The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly.
Bobier C (2023). Virtue Ethics and the Spheres of Morality Framework. The American journal of bioethics : AJOB.
Bobier C, Rodger D (2023). Xenotransplantation Clinical Trials and Equitable Patient Selection. Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics : CQ : the international journal of healthcare ethics committees.
Allen BL, Bobier C, Dawson S, Fleming PJS, Hampton J, Jachowski D, Kerley GIH, Linnell JDC, Marnewick K, Minnie L, Muthersbaugh M, O'Riain MJ, Parker D, Proulx G, Somers MJ, Titus K (2023). Why humans kill animals and why we cannot avoid it. The Science of the total environment.
Bobier C (2023). The Impairment Argument and Future-Like-Ours: A Problematic Dependence. Journal of bioethical inquiry.
Bobier C, Rodger D, Hurst DJ, Omelianchuk A (2023). In defense of xenotransplantation research: Because of, not in spite of, animal welfare concerns. Xenotransplantation.
C Bobier (2022). A Practical Problem for Proponents of Heterologous Embryo Transfer The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly.
Christopher Bobier (2022). Is a vegetarian diet morally safe? Zeitschrift für Ethik und Moralphilosophie.
Christopher Bobier (2022). Extending the Impairment Argument to Sentient Non-Human Animals Between the Species: A Journal for the Study of Philosophy and Animals.
Christopher Bobier (2022). New Omnivorism: a Novel Approach to Food and Animal Ethics Food Ethics.
Christopher Bobier, Adam Omelianchuk (2022). Dilemma for appeals to the moral significance of birth Journal of Medical Ethics.
Bobier CA, Allen BL (2022). Compassionate Conservation is indistinguishable from traditional forms of conservation in practice. Frontiers in psychology.
Bobier C, Allen B (2022). The virtue of compassion in compassionate conservation. Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology.
Bobier CA, Omelianchuk A (2022). Why appeals to the moral significance of birth are saddled with a dilemma. Journal of medical ethics.
Christopher Bobier (2021). What Would the Virtuous Person Eat? The Case for Virtuous Omnivorism Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics.
Christopher Bobier (2021). The Hopefull Leviathan: Hope, Deliberation and the Commonwealth Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie.
Bobier CA (2021). A critical examination of the false hope harms argument. Bioethics.
Christopher Bobier (2020). Aquinas on the Emotion of Hope: A Psychological or Theological Treatment? American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly.
Bobier CA, Omelianchuk A (2020). Dilemma for appeals to the moral significance of birth. Journal of medical ethics.
Bobier CA (2020). Orphans and the relational significance of birth: a response to Singh. Journal of medical ethics.
Christopher Bobier (2019). Should Moral Vegetarians Avoid Eating Vegetables? Food Ethics.
Christopher Bobier (2019). Varieties of the Cruelty-Based Objection to Factory Farming Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics.
Christopher Bobier (2018). Why hope is not a moral virtue: Aquinas's insight Ratio.
Christopher Bobier (2017). Hope and Practical Deliberation Analysis.
Christopher Bobier (2017). Deflating Moods Southwest Philosophy Review.
Hurst DJ, Bobier C (2025). Medical Sanctions and Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Companies: Extending Gross' Conclusion. The American journal of bioethics : AJOB.
Bobier, C, Obeid, J (2025). The US healthcare system facilitates medical conspiracy theories: A call to action Ethics, Medicine and Public Health.
Bobier C, Hurst DJ, Rodger D (2025). Should Xenotransplantation Surgeries Be Authorized Under the Food and Drug Administration's Expanded Access Pathway? AMA journal of ethics.
Christopher Bobier, Daniel J. Hurst (2025). Dual use research and artificial intelligence AI & Society.
Bobier C, Gibson RB, Merlocco A, Rodger D, Hurst DJ (2025). Xenotransplantation as a business solution to the organ shortage. Bioethics.
Christopher Bobier, Adam Omelianchuk, Daniel Rodger, Daniel Hurst (2025). Collective Consent to Xenotransplantation: A Critical Appraisal Public Health Ethics.
Daniel Hurst, Anthony Merlocco, Luz Padilla, Chris Bobier (2025). Argument for allowing first-in-human cardiac xenotransplantation clinical trials in paediatric patients Journal of Medical Ethics.
Bobier, C, Milburn, J (2024). Eating Food Produced in Harmful Ways: Wrongful Complicity or Moral Tragedy? Journal of Applied Animal Ethics Research,.
Christopher Bobier, Daniel J. Hurst (2024). Clarifying Dual Use Research of Concern Philosophy & Technology.
Bobier C (2024). Ethical xenotransplant research on human brain-dead decedents. Bioethics.
Rodger D, Mack J, Bobier C, Padilla L, Hurst DJ (2024). Xenotransplantation clinical trials: Should patients with diminished capacity be permitted to enroll? Xenotransplantation.
Bobier CA (2024). A Rule-Based Solution to Opaque Medical Billing in the U.S. The Journal of law, medicine & ethics : a journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics.
Bobier C, Hurst DJ, Rodger D (2024). Xenotransplantation under the Food and Drug Administration's Expanded Access pathway. American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons.
Bobier C (2024). Equitable Participant Selection Concerns for First-In-Human Whole-Eye Transplantation. The American journal of bioethics : AJOB.
Hurst DJ, Padilla L, Merlocco A, Rodger D, Bobier C, Gray WH, Sorabella R, Cooper DKC, Pierson RN (2024). Pediatric Cardiac Xenotransplantation: Recommendations for the Ethical Design of Clinical Trials. Transplantation.
Bobier C (2024). Risky first-in-human clinical trials on medically fragile persons: owning the moral cost. Theoretical medicine and bioethics.
Rodger D, Hurst DJ, Bobier CA, Symons X (2024). Genetic disenhancement and xenotransplantation: diminishing pigs' capacity to experience suffering through genetic engineering. Journal of medical ethics.
Hurst DJ, Bobier C (2024). Does Xenotransplantation Offer a Large Benefit for Human Patients? The Thoracic and cardiovascular surgeon.
Bobier C, Hurst DJ, Rodger D, Omelianchuk A (2024). Xenograft recipients and the right to withdraw from a clinical trial. Bioethics.
Bobier C, Reinhardt N, Pawlowski K (2024). Animal rights, animal research, and the need to reimagine science. The New bioethics : a multidisciplinary journal of biotechnology and the body.
Rodger D, Hurst DJ, Bobier CA, Symons X (2024). Defending genetic disenhancement in xenotransplantation. Journal of medical ethics.
Bobier C, Rodger D, Hurst DJ (2024). Xenotransplantation and lifelong monitoring. American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons.
Bobier C, Omelianchuk A, Hurst DJ (2024). The promise of xenotransplantation: a challenge. Journal of medical ethics.
C. Bobier, D. Hurst (2024). Battlefield Triage: A Resolvable Moral Tragedy Voices in Bioethics.
Bobier C (2024). The focus account of false hope. Medicine, health care, and philosophy.
Hurst DJ, Bobier C, Merlocco A, Padilla LA, Rodger D, Cleveland D, Cleveland JD (2024). Pediatric Cardiac Xenotransplantation and Expanded Access: Ethical Considerations. Pediatric transplantation.
Christopher Bobier (2024). Xenotransplantation and Ethical Stewardship The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly.
Bobier C (2023). Virtue Ethics and the Spheres of Morality Framework. The American journal of bioethics : AJOB.
Bobier C, Rodger D (2023). Xenotransplantation Clinical Trials and Equitable Patient Selection. Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics : CQ : the international journal of healthcare ethics committees.
Allen BL, Bobier C, Dawson S, Fleming PJS, Hampton J, Jachowski D, Kerley GIH, Linnell JDC, Marnewick K, Minnie L, Muthersbaugh M, O'Riain MJ, Parker D, Proulx G, Somers MJ, Titus K (2023). Why humans kill animals and why we cannot avoid it. The Science of the total environment.
Bobier C (2023). The Impairment Argument and Future-Like-Ours: A Problematic Dependence. Journal of bioethical inquiry.
Bobier C, Rodger D, Hurst DJ, Omelianchuk A (2023). In defense of xenotransplantation research: Because of, not in spite of, animal welfare concerns. Xenotransplantation.
C Bobier (2022). A Practical Problem for Proponents of Heterologous Embryo Transfer The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly.
Christopher Bobier (2022). Is a vegetarian diet morally safe? Zeitschrift für Ethik und Moralphilosophie.
Christopher Bobier (2022). Extending the Impairment Argument to Sentient Non-Human Animals Between the Species: A Journal for the Study of Philosophy and Animals.
Christopher Bobier (2022). New Omnivorism: a Novel Approach to Food and Animal Ethics Food Ethics.
Christopher Bobier, Adam Omelianchuk (2022). Dilemma for appeals to the moral significance of birth Journal of Medical Ethics.
Bobier CA, Allen BL (2022). Compassionate Conservation is indistinguishable from traditional forms of conservation in practice. Frontiers in psychology.
Bobier C, Allen B (2022). The virtue of compassion in compassionate conservation. Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology.
Bobier CA, Omelianchuk A (2022). Why appeals to the moral significance of birth are saddled with a dilemma. Journal of medical ethics.
Christopher Bobier (2021). What Would the Virtuous Person Eat? The Case for Virtuous Omnivorism Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics.
Christopher Bobier (2021). The Hopefull Leviathan: Hope, Deliberation and the Commonwealth Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie.
Bobier CA (2021). A critical examination of the false hope harms argument. Bioethics.
Christopher Bobier (2020). Aquinas on the Emotion of Hope: A Psychological or Theological Treatment? American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly.
Bobier CA, Omelianchuk A (2020). Dilemma for appeals to the moral significance of birth. Journal of medical ethics.
Bobier CA (2020). Orphans and the relational significance of birth: a response to Singh. Journal of medical ethics.
Christopher Bobier (2019). Should Moral Vegetarians Avoid Eating Vegetables? Food Ethics.
Christopher Bobier (2019). Varieties of the Cruelty-Based Objection to Factory Farming Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics.
Christopher Bobier (2018). Why hope is not a moral virtue: Aquinas's insight Ratio.
Christopher Bobier (2017). Hope and Practical Deliberation Analysis.
Christopher Bobier (2017). Deflating Moods Southwest Philosophy Review.
Credentials, Certifications & Awards
Graduate Student Research and Travel Award
Teaching Excellence and Service to the Academic Community Award
Instructional Development Award
Teaching Excellence and Service to the Academic Community Award
Instructional Development Award
Education
B.A., California State University, Fullerton, Fullerton
M.H.H.S.A., Saint Mary's University of Minnesota, Winona
M.A., University of California, Irvine, Irvine
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, Irvine
M.H.H.S.A., Saint Mary's University of Minnesota, Winona
M.A., University of California, Irvine, Irvine
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, Irvine
Membership in Professional Organizations
American Society for Bioethics and Humanities