Michael Certo graduated from the MA Program in Bioethics in 2022 and entered the University of Pittsburgh Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship. In addition to completing his MA in Bioethics, he completed a Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Fellowship at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, where he also completed his residency in pediatrics. Michael’s thesis, Using Cognitive Capacity, Experiential Capacity, and Domains of Suffering to Inform Assessment of Suffering in Children, developed an account of suffering to provide a clear and justifiable framework for determining whether and how pediatric patients are suffering, with the goals of helping clinicians identify means to ameliorate suffering and reducing the risk that inaccurate attributions of suffering are used to defend premature or unjustified decisions regarding treatment. In addition to his MD from Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Michael earned a Master’s in Music from the Manhattan School of Music, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Carnegie Mellon University.