Jan Schildmann MA

Jan Schildmann MD, MA is a medical ethicist and physician. He studied medicine at the Charite Medical School, Berlin, and received an MA in medical law and ethics from King’s College, University of London. After completing his clinical training in internal medicine, he became head of the NRW-Junior research group ‘‘Medical ethics at the end of life: norm and empiricism’’ at the Institute of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, Ruhr University Bochum. His research focuses on clinical ethics (i.e. end-of-life decisions, ethics support services), research ethics (i.e. personalized medicine in oncology, conflict of interest) and methodological aspects of empirical medical ethics.