Advisory Board
Emanuel Marks, Ph.D.
Education:
1963 University of Manchester: Ph.D. in Social Anthropology
1958 Hebrew University, Jerusalem: M.A. in Sociology and Orientalism
Positions:
1979-1995 professor, Tel Aviv University, Sociology & Anthropology
1992-1995 director of the Israeli Academic Center in Cairo
1989-1990 academic advisor to The Refugee Studies Centre (RSC), University of Oxford
1976-1989 founder and director of The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research,
Ben Gurion University of the Negev
1964-1979 Lecturer and founder of the department of Sociology & Anthropology, Tel Aviv University
Mark A. Clarfield, M.D.
Education:
1975 University of Toronto: M.D. Specializes in Family Medicine, Community Medicine and Public Health and in Geriatrics
Positions:
2009- Head of Medical School for International Health, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
2001-2009 Head of Geriatrics at the Soroka Hospital, Beer-Sheva
1994-2001 Head of the Division of Geriatrics at the Ministry of Health, Israel
1978-1992 Professor, McGill University, Faculty of Medicine
Prof. Silke Schicktanz, PhD
Professional Positions
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Since 2014: Nominated by the faculty as Working Group Leader Since 2010: Full Professor (W2) for Cultural and Ethical Studies of Biomedicine, University Medical Center Göttingen, Germany Since 2011: Deputy director of the Institute of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine |
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2011: Adjunct Professor for Philosophy, San Francisco State University |
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2006–2010 Associate Professor (Junior-Professor) for History, Theory, Ethics in Medicine, University Medical Center Göttingen |
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2004 –2005 Senior Researcher, University of Münster, Institute for Ethics, History and Theory of Medicine |
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2002–2003 Post-Doc-Position / Research Fellow, Max-Delbrück-Centrum for Molecular Medicine, RG Bioethics and Science Communication |
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2001–2002 Project Leader: First nation-wide citizens conference on genetic testing |
Education
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1/2002 Doctor rerum naturalium (PhD) in Ethics of Life Science, University Tübingen, Germany with highest honours (summa cum laude) |
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1991–1997 Studies in Biology and Philosophy at the University Tübingen, Germany. grade: excellent (1.0) |
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Honours/Awards
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2001 |
Award of the German Academy of Medical Ethics |
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2002 |
Reinhold-und-Maria-Teufel-Award: best PhD thesis |
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2010 |
Invited Research Fellow, Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advance Studies, Delhi India |
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2011–12 2015
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Feodor-Lynen Fellowship of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation Senior Fellow in Residence at the Alfried Krupp Institute for Advanced Study, Greifswald |
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Current Publications with project relevance: I have published 2 books, 16 volumes, and currently are more than 75 peer review articles published/accepted. Among them:
Leibing A. & S. Schicktanz 2020: Preventing Dementia? Critical Perspectives on a New Paradigm of Preparing for Old Age, Berghahn N.Y. (in press), 248 pages
Schweda, M., Pfaller L., Bauer, K., Adloff, F., Schicktanz, S. (eds.) (2017). Planning Later Life. Bioethics and Public Health in Ageing Societies, Routledge.
Raz, A. & Schicktanz, S. (2016). Comparative Empirical Bioethics: Dilemmas of Genetic Testing and Euthanasia in Israel and Germany. Springer Brief in ethics.
