- Paul Schotsmans
Professor Paul Schotsmans, Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law, Catholic University Leuven, Belgium
Paul Schotsmans (°1950) has a licentiate Degree in Educational Sciences (1976) and a Doctoral Degree in Theology (1982). In 1984 he received the position of professor of
medical ethics in the Faculty of Medicine, K.U.Leuven. In 1995 he became Ordinarius Professor of the K.U.Leuven.Paul Schotsmans was appointed Director of the new Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law in 1986. From 1996-2005 he presided over the Department of Public Health. Currently, he is vice-dean of the Faculty of Medicine.
He is honorary president of the European Association of Centres of Medical Ethics (EACME) where he served consecutively as treasurer, secretary-general and president. He is also board member of the Belgian Advisory Committee on Bioethics, board member of the International Association of Bioethics, president of the ethics committee of
Eurotransplant as well as member of several local and international ethics committees.His research interest is mainly the application of 'personalism' as an ethical model for the ethical integration of reproductive technologies, pre-implantation and
prenatal diagnosis , clinical genetics, stem cell research,organ transplant ation and end of life decision making. He is the author and co-editor of several books in bioethics and papers in leading journals.Publications
* Healthy Thoughts European Perspectives on Health Care Ethics (2002)
* Ethiek in de kliniek 25 jaar adviezen van de Commissie voor medische ethiek (2000)
* De maakbare mens Vruchtbaarheid in de 21ste eeuw (1994)
* The technological advances in health sciences and the moral theological implications (1993)
* En de mens schiep de mens Medische (r)evolutie en ethiek (1988)
* Euthanasia and Palliative Care in the Low Countries (2005)
* Preimplantation Diagnosis. A Reflection in Light of a Personalist Ethics, in E. Hildt & S. Grauman (Eds.), Genetics in Human Reproduction (1999)
* New Pathways for European Bioethics (2007)
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