Presenter
David Augustin Hodge, Sr., DMin, PhD
Associate Director of Education for the National Center for Bioethics in Research and Healthcare
Tuskegee University
Bio
Dr. David Augustin Hodge Sr. currently serves as Associate Director of Education for the National Center for Bioethics in Research and Healthcare at Tuskegee University. In this role, which he began in October 2017, he coordinates the Center’s Bioethics Honors program and bioethics minor, its annual Public Health Ethics Intensive Course, and various outreach programs designed to engage the Center’s target audiences, as well as teaches bioethics and public health ethics courses.
In addition to his academic and administrative duties, Dr. Hodge is a researcher, author and editor. This includes serving as senior associate editor for the Center’s Journal of Healthcare, Sciences, and Humanities. This double-blind, peer-reviewed journal — a partnership with the Smithsonian Institution’s Office of Sponsored Programs — was first published in 2009 by the former Navy Medical Institute for the Healthcare Humanities and Research Leadership, and then transferred to the center in 2012 for continued publication.
Before his current appointment at Tuskegee University, Dr. Hodge served as an adjunct/assistant professor of philosophy at Georgia State University and as a guest lecturer in philosophy, theology and ethics at the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, Georgia. For nearly two decades prior, he provided leadership to the Religion and Philosophy Department at Florida Memorial University in Miami. During a portion of that time, he also taught moral theory and bioethics courses at Nova Southeastern University (He also served as adjunct professor of philosophy, ethics, religion and logic at Broward College, Miami Dade College, St. Thomas University and Barry University, all in South Florida).
Dr. Hodge, the 11th of 12 children born to Alice and Alvin Hodge, rose above being blinded at 12 years of age by an abusive person to become an ambassador for Christ through love, empathy, compassion and care. While pursuing a Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Miami, he completed his dissertation entitled Jesus the Virtue Ethicist: A Meta-ethical Anticipation of Moral Sentimentalism, Empathy and Care, which draws from the continued intersection his life has had with these virtues. The themes of physical, emotional and spiritual healing continued to prevail in the books he later authored: In the Midst of My Tears (2003), God of Our Silent Tears (2001), and God of Our Silent Tears: A Five Week Journey (2003)
A native of St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, Dr. Hodge’s academic background includes a Bachelor of arts degree in Bible, Theology and English from American Baptist College in Nashville, Tennessee; a Master of Arts degree in Education from Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma; a Master of Theological Studies degree from Candler School of Theology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia; a Doctor of Ministry degree from Columbia Theological Seminary in Atlanta, Georgia; and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Miami in Miami, Florida.
Committees
PRIM&R Finance Committee
PRIM&R Governance Committee