ABOUT THE COLLABORATORS
Australia
Yordanka Borissova Krastev is a lecturer at the School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Australia and a research fellow at the Bulgarian Center for Bioethics. She holds an MD from Medical University, Pleven (Bulgaria), and a Ph.D. from the Medical University of Sofia (Bulgaria). She specialized in Medical Informatics and Health Management at Medical University - Sofia (Bulgaria). Her key research interests are ethics committees in health care, public health ethics, bioethics, decision-making in research ethics and advanced health care directives. yordanka.krastev@bio-ethics.net
Austria
Julia Inthorn got her degrees in philosophy and mathematics in Munich and currently is a doctoral degree candidate in philosophy at the Munich School of Philosophy. She was working as a researcher in a project on ethical comitees in hospitals in 2006 in Munich and has been a researcher at the Institute of Ethics and Law in Medicine, University of Vienna, since 2007. Her work includes a project on the use and acceptance of living wills in Austria.julia.inthorn@univie.ac.at
Bulgaria
Assya Pascalev received her Ph.D. in Applied Philosophy with a concentration in biomedical ethics from Bowling Green State University - USA in 2001. Since 2000, she has been holding academic positions at the University of North Florida (2000-2004) and Howard University (2005-present) in USA. She served as the Associate Director of the Center for Ethics, Public Policy and the Professions at the University of North Florida (2000-2003). In 2004, A. She founded the Bulgarian Center for Bioethics and has been serving a its Executive Director. director@bio-ethics.net
Canada
Donna Goodridge. Associate Professor. College of Nursing, University of Saskatchewan. She received her Ph.D. in Nursing from the University of Manitoba, Canada in 2004 and has held an academic position at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada since that time. She currently holds a five year CIHR/RPP New Investigator Award and leads the Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation-funded Quality End of Life Group. She has been widely published on various topics in end of life care, advanced chronic illness and unmet nursing needs in home care. donna.goodridge@usask.ca
Megan Steeves. Research Coordinator, College of Nursing, University of Saskatchewan. She received her Masters in Sociology, from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada in 2010. Her research is focused on eating disorders, online pro-anorexia groups and popular body image, however she also works extensively with CIHR funded researchers on the topic of quality end of life care. She currently holds a Research Coordinator position in the College of Nursing, at the University of Saskatchewan. megan.steeves@gmail.com
Finland
Pekka Louhiala has degrees both in medicine (D.Med.Sci 1993 Helsinki, Finland) and philosophy (Ph.D. 2002 Swansea, Wales). He works as University lecturer in medical ethics at the University of Helsinki, Finland and as a part-time paediatrician in private practice. He has published on various topics in medical ethics, philosophy of medicine and paediatric epidemiology. pekka.louhiala@helsinki.fi
Germany
Arnd T. May got his PhD with a dissertation about Advance Directives (Bochum 2000). He was member of the workinggroup "Autonomy at the end of life" (Patientenautonomie am Lebensende) by the German Federal Ministry of Justice (2003-2004). His key research interests are ethics committees in health care, advance directives, e-health, palliative care, emergency medicine. He runs the website www.ethikzentrum.de where a list of more than 200 forms of ADs in Germany are listed. Info@ethikzentrum.de
Greece
Takis Vidalis got his PhD in law at the University of Athens in 1995. He is an attorney-at-law and a member of the Athens Bar Association since 1988.
In 2001 he was elected a senior scientist and legal advisor of the Hellenic National Bioethics Commission. Since 2004 he teaches “Bioethics and Law” at the University of Crete. He participates as an independent expert in ethical reviews of research projects, under the EU Research FPs. t.vidalis@bioethics.gr
Lithuania
Eimantas Peicius got his PhD in Public Health at the Kaunas University of Medicine in 2005. With the background of Philosophy he obtained the Master of Arts in Applied Ethics in 1998 at Vytautas Magnus University. Since 2000 as a lecturer he is involved in teaching and research of Bioethics, Applied Ethics and Public Health Ethics at Kaunas University of Medicine and Vilnius University. eimantas.peicius@med.kmu.lt
Norway
Per Nortvedt is a former anesthetist nurse, now professor and leader of the Section for medical Ethics at the Medical faculty, University of Norway. He got his PhD at the University of Oslo, in 1996 on an Ethics of care. His main areas of research are within Ethics of care, moral phenomenology, and empirical studies regarding prioritizations in health care and resource allocation, as well as end of life decisions and palliative care. p.nortvedt@medisin.uio.no
Poland
Lesław T. Niebrój: Department of Philosophy and Pedagogy, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice. Poland. lniebroj@wp.pl
Portugal
João Carlos Simões Gonçalves Loureiro, Professor of the Faculty of Law (University of Coimbra), teaches Constitutional Law and Social Security Law; Ph.D (Doutoramento), 2004: Constituição e biomedicina: contribuição para uma teoria dos deveres fundamentais na esfera da genética humana, Coimbra, 2003 (Constitution and biomedicine: contribution for a theory of bioconstitutional duties in the field of human genetics, Coimbra, 2003, 1276 p.). Member of the Centre for Biomedical Law (Centro de Direito Biomédico) and Centre for Bioethics Studies (Centro de Estudos de Bio-Ética), both in Coimbra. loureiro@fd.uc.pt
Serbia
Violeta Besirević, an Associate Professor, holds an L.L.M. and an S.J.D. from New York State University/Central European University. Currently she is a Vice Dean of Academic Affairs and Head of the Postgraduate Studies at the Union University Law School, Belgrade. She teaches Medical Law, International Criminal Law, European Human Rights Law and parts of EU Law (institutions and human rights aspect). She is a Serbian representative in the Board of Directors of the European Public Law Organization, (Athens) and a Research Associate at the CEU Center for Ethics and Law in Biomedicine in Budapest. besirevv@ceu.hu
Slovakia
Mgr. Katarina Glasova has got her PhD. in Systematic Philosophy at the Trnava University in Slovakia. She has worked for the Institute of Medical Ethics and Bioethics (IMEB) in Bratislava being involved in various IMEB’s research and educational projects. She teaches philosophy and social ethics at the St. Elisabeth University of Health and Social Care in Bratislava (Slovakia). glasovak@yahoo.com
Spain
Pablo Simón-Lorda got his PhD in Medicine at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) in 1996 with a work about "informed consent". He specialized in family medicine between 1991 and 1994 in Madrid, and became Master in Bioethics at the University Complutense of Madrid- Spain in 1993. For several years he served as a general practitioner in Madrid, and since 2005 he stays at the Andalusian School of Public Health in Granada-Spain, as lecturer and researcher in bioethics. His current research interests include informed consent, ethical problems at the end-of-life and the ethics of healthcare organizations. pablo.simon.easp@juntadeandalucia.es
Maria Isabel Tamayo-Velázquez got her PhD in Psychology at the University of Grenade-Spain in 2000. She is a doctoral degree candidate in Social Gerontology at the University of Grenade. She has been working as a researcher at the Andalusian School of Public Health in Spain since 2005 and her current research interests include all aspects related to bioethics and specially end-of-life decision making. mariai.tamayo.easp@juntadeandalucia.es
Collaborators from the Advance Directives Registries of Spain
Turkey
Tolga Güven received his medical doctor degree in Marmara University Faculty of Medicine (İstanbul – Turkey) in 1998. He obtained his Ph.D in medical ethics and history of medicine in 2002 in Kocaeli University. He has working as a lecturer in Marmara University Faculty of Medicine’s Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine. His current research interests include ethical issues in physician-patient relationship, research ethics and clinical ethics education. tolgaguven@hotmail.com
