Sabine Salloch PhD

Dr. Sabine Salloch has headed the Institute for Ethics, History, and Philosophy of Medicine at the Hannover Medical School as W3 professor since August 2020. From 1999 to 2007 she completed a double degree in medicine and philosophy at the Philipps University in Marburg. She received her PhD in 2006 as a Dr. med. with a thesis on the history of medicine in the early modern period and, in 2015, Dr. phil. with a thesis on practical judgment and qualified as a professor in 2016 in the subject “Ethics, Theory and History of Medicine”. After almost two years of medical activity, she was a research assistant at the Ruhr University in Bochum from 2009 to 2015. From 2016 to 2020 she was junior professor at the Institute for Ethics and History of Medicine at the University Medical Center Greifswald.

Sabine Salloch is a member of the Central Ethics Commission at the German Medical Association and the Central Ethics Commission for Stem Cell Research. Her research focuses on empirical-ethical research, ethical questions at the end of life, professionalism and interprofessionalism in health care and ethical questions of digitization in medicine.