Alena Buyx
Alena Buyx | |
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Born | 29 September 1977 |
Nationality | Germany |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Medical ethics |
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Alena Michaela Buyx (German pronunciation: [aˈleːna mɪçaˈʔeːla ˈbʏks]; born 29 September 1977) is a German medical ethicist. She has been president of the German Ethics Council since 2020.[1]
Career[]
Alena Buyx studied medicine, philosophy and sociology at the University of Münster, the University of York and the University College London from 1997, and earned a PhD. From 2009 to 2012 she served as an associate director of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics. She completed her habilitation in Münster in 2013. From 2012 to 2014 she headed the DFG-Emmy Noether group "Bioethics and Political Philosophy" at the University of Münster and was a senior research fellow in public policy at the University College London until 2015.[2]
She became professor of medical ethics at the University of Kiel in 2014. In 2016 she was appointed as a member of the German Ethics Council, and she became its president in 2020.[1] In 2018 she became professor of ethics in medicine and health technologies at the Technical University of Munich.[3] In 2020 she was elected as a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. She is a member of the WHO Expert Advisory Committee on Developing Global Standards for Governance and Oversight of Human Genome Editing.[4]
Selected publications[]
- A. Fiske, P. Henningsen, A. Buyx: Your robot therapist will see you now: Ethical implications of embodied artificial intelligence in psychiatry, psychology, and psychotherapy. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 21(5), 2019, S. e13216, doi:10.2196/13216.
- A. Sierawska, A. Buyx: Unmet Needs in Children with ADHD - Can tDCS Fill the Gap? Promises and Ethical Challenges. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 2019. doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00334.
- G. Richter, C. Borzikowsky, W. Lieb, S. Schreiber, M. Krawczak, A. Buyx: Patient views on research use of clinical data without consent: Legal, but also acceptable? European Journal of Human Genetics. 2019. doi:10.1038/s41431-019-0340-6.
- B. Prainsack, A. Buyx: The value of work and labour: Addressing the Future of Work (FOW) through the lens of solidarity. Bioethics. 32(9), 2018, pp. 585–592. doi:10.1111/bioe.12507.
- A. Fiske, A. Buyx, B. Prainsack: Health Information Counselors: A New Profession for the Age of Big Data? Academic Medicine. 2018. doi:10.1097/ACM.0000000000002395. PMID 30095453.
- G. Richter, M. Krawczak, W. Lieb, L. Wolff, S. Schreiber, A. Buyx: Broad consent for healthcare-embedded biobanking: understanding and reasons to donate in a large patient sample. Genetics in Medicine. 20(1), 2018, pp. 76–82. doi:10.1038/gim.2017.82. PMID 28640237.
- J. Littmann, A. Rid, A. Buyx: Tackling anti-microbial resistance. Ethical framework for rational antibiotic use. European Journal of Public Health. 28(2), 2018, pp. 359–363. doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckx165.
- B. Prainsack, A. Buyx: Solidarity in biomedicine and beyond. Cambridge University Press, 2017.
- B. Prainsack, A. Buyx: Solidarity: Reflections on an emerging concept in bioethics. 2011.
References[]
- Technical University of Munich faculty
- University of Kiel faculty
- 20th-century German physicians
- Members of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- 1977 births
- Living people
- University of Münster alumni
- Alumni of the University of York
- Alumni of University College London
- Bioethicists
- Medical ethicists