Juan Eduardo Carreño Pavez (born 1976, married, father of three) holds a Ph.D. in Medical Sciences from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Navarra, Spain. After completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Medieval Philosophy, Georgetown University, he returned to the University of Los Andes, Chile, where he directs the Center for Bioethics and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses to students of the Institute of Philosophy and the Faculty of Medicine, among other departments. His interests focus on the philosophy of nature and metaphysics as developed by Thomas Aquinas and other major authors in the Thomistic tradition, including its scholastic, modern, and contemporary branches; the philosophical debates that took place in the 13th and 14th centuries and their impact on the theological speculation of the period; the contemporary dialogue between science, philosophy, and theology; and medical ethics and the philosophy of medicine. He is the author of several articles and monographs, and he is currently working on a state-funded project aimed at recovering the various aspects of the notion of divine omnipotence present in the Corpus Thomisticum.