Samia Hurst

I am a physician ethicist, Director of the Institute for Ethics, History, and the Humanities at the Geneva University Medical School in Switzerland, consultant ethicist to the Clinical ethics council of the Geneva University Hospitals (HUG), and supervisor for the Clinical Ethics Unit at the Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV). After specializing in internal medicine in Switzerland, I was a post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Clinical Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda from 2001 to 2003. From 2008 to 2012, I chaired the Swiss Society for Biomedical Ethics, which is a wonderful organization of which you should all be members. No specific professional background is required : our common point is an interest in the ethical issues raised by medicine and the life sciences. We publish Bioethica Forum a peer-reviewed bioethics journal in English, German, and French. I am a member of the European Clinical Ethics Network, for which I started the Wikipedia page on Resources for clinical ethics consultation: some of you may want to contribute to it. I am also a member of the Central Ethics Commission of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences and the Swiss National Advisory Commission on Biomedical Ethics. If you read French you can find more information on my homepage, including links to my publications. I also host one of the (currently) very few French-language bioethics blogs.
Supervisors: Alex Mauron, Marion Danis, Ezekiel Emanuel, and Arnaud Perrier