The Bartha Maria Knoppers Annual Lecture 2024

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The Centre of Genomics and Policy (CGP) is proud to host the 2nd Bartha Maria Knoppers Annual Lecture.

This year's keynote speaker is Dr. Eva Winkler.

Eva Winkler has two professional careers: in Medical Ethics and in Oncology. She is the Head of the Section for Translational Medical Ethics, University Hospital Heidelberg (UKHD), Heidelberg University. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of the National Center for Tumor Diseases, Heidelberg and works as a senior physician and specialist in hematology/oncology in the Department of Medical Oncology at UKHD.

Eva Winkler holds a doctorate in cancer research from Heidelberg University / German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and a PhD in medical and health ethics from the University of Basel, Switzerland (with distinction). She spent two years of her medical ethics training as part of two fellowships in the Division of Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School and as a faculty fellow at the Center for Ethics and the Professions at Harvard University / Kennedy School of Government.

Eva Winkler's research focuses on empirically informed applied ethics. Areas of research are:

• Research Ethics: ethical questions of precision medicine, genome sequencing and editing; overall ethical questions of translation between research and healthcare
• Clinical Ethics: especially decisions at the end of life, organizational ethics
• Public Health Ethics: resource allocation, secondary use of health data

Refreshments will also be served at the event.

Please RSVP by Tuesday, November 5th, 2024.

Stay tuned for more information on the event.

Host or Publisher Centre of Genomics and Policy