Dr. Robert W. Daly ’54
Major: Biology
Profession: Professor of Psychiatry and Humanities, SUNY Health Science Center, Syracuse, NY
Home: DeWitt, NY

The recipient of the Sol Feinstone Award for Humanitarian Service at St. Lawrence’s Reunion Weekend in June 2004, Dr. Robert Daly has earned a reputation as both a moral practitioner of medicine and an internationally respected advocate for adherence to and reflection on the moral implications of medical science. After St. Lawrence, he continued his education at Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse, earning his medical degree in 1957. His career has focused on serving the upstate New York community as a clinical psychiatrist, and as a teacher of bioethics, humanities and psychiatry.

Dr. Daly was the first chair of the University Hospital Ethics Committee and of its Ethics Consultation Service. He is the founder and president for the Institute for Ethics in Health Care, co-founder of the Consortium for Culture and Medicine and of the Syracuse Consortium for the Cultural Foundation of Medicine, and president of the Institute for Ethics in Health Care. His work extends across the globe; he has lectured in Europe and China as well as throughout the United States, and he serves as an editorial consultant for the Journal of the American Medical Association; Literature and Medicine; and Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology. His writings appear regularly in every major medical journal.

Active in the Greek system, music and drama, ROTC and campus publications as a student, Dr. Daly has given back to his alma mater as a career advisor and fund-raising volunteer.