Tuesday, May 13, 2025
5:00 PM EDT
Reception to Follow, 6 – 6:45pm
The Bioethics Research Library
102 Healy Hall
Prof. Dr. Alena Buyx
Professor for Ethics in Medicine and Health Technologies
Director of the Institute for the History and Ethics of Medicine
Technical University of Munch
Prof. Buyx was appointed to the German Ethics Council in 2016 and was its chairperson in her second term of office from 2020 to 2024. Since 2024, she has been a member of the German Federal Government’s Expert Council on Health and Resilience. Her work covers the breadth of biomedical ethics and theory, from the ‘classic’ medical ethics issues arising from clinical practice, to challenges posed by biotechnological innovation and medical research; to ethical and justice issues in modern health care systems.