Bioethics Professor of Oxford University Attends Tehran Congress to Explain His Views

Bioethics Professor of Oxford University Attends Tehran Congress to Explain His Views
Date: 6/30/2007

Tehran university of medical sciences, Public relations news service: Michael Parker, Professor of Bioethics at the University of Oxford and Honorary Clinical Ethicist at the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals Trust comes to Tehran in November to attend the second congress of medical ethics.

Professor Parker who is coming to Iran as keynote speaker of Tehran congress, is Professor of Bioethics at the University of Oxford and Honorary Clinical Ethicist at the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals Trust, providing ethics support and education in the clinical setting, particularly in clinical genetics.

He is on a number of national and international committees including; the International Association of Bioethics, the ethics committee of the Royal College of Physicians, Associate Editor of the Journal of Medical Ethics, Series Editor of ‘Ethics in Practice’ in the British Medical Journal, a founder member of the steering committee of the UK Clinical Ethics Network and, a founder member of the UK Genethics Club(a national forum for the discussion of ethical and social issues arising in the practice of clinical genetics).

Professor Parker’s main research interests are:

The ethical issues raised by the use of genetics in the clinical setting, especially in the tensions arising in caring for both individual patients and their families; ethical issues in the health professional-patient relationship more widely, including the concept of ‘evidence-based patient choice’; and the ethical issues arising in research in genetics, both that on very rare conditions and also, genetic epidemiology using large scale genetic sample collections, and or patient records.

He has written widely on ethical issues in genetics including: reproductive choice, confidentiality and responsibility to family members, the ethics of research on very rare inherited disorders, testing children and adolescents, the use of sample collections in genetic research and, the use of patient records in medical research without consent.

The 2nd International Congress of medical ethics in Iran will be held in Tehran on November 22-24, 2007 with participation of some of world's most famous researchers in this field to discuss the ways of how to reach common perspectives.

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