University of Geneva

Faculty Member, Institute for Biomedical Ethics

Assistant Professor

Institute for biomedical ethics / Bioéthique

About

I am a physician and a bioethicist, and Assistant professor for bioethics at the Geneva University Medical School in Switzerland (SNFS professor). After doctoral work in tropical medicine and certification in internal medicine, during which I started my training in bioethics, I was a post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Clinical Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda from 2001 to 2003. On my return, I joined the Institute for Biomedical Ethics at the Geneva University Medical School in 2003. I am also consultant ethicist to the Clinical ethics council of the Geneva University Hospitals (HUG).

Since 2008 I chair the Swiss Society for Biomedical Ethics, which is a wonderful organization of which you should all be members. No specific professional background is required : our common point is an interest in the ethical issues raised by medicine and the life sciences. We publish Bioethica Forum a peer-reviewed bioethics journal in English, German, and French.

I am a member of the European Clinical Ethics Network, for which I started the Wikipedia page on Resources for clinical ethics consultation: some of you may want to contribute to it. I am also a member of the WHO’s Ethical Review Committee, and of the Central Ethics Commission of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences.

If you read French you can find more information on my homepage, including links to my publications. I also host one of the (currently) very few French-language bioethics blogs.

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