Short Bio
Clinical psychologist with a PhD in Bioethics and a persisting interest in the ethical debate surrounding the concept of autonomy in medicine, medical paternalism as well as the patient's perspective on health, illness and psychiatry. Currently working in consultation liaison psychiatric services and as a clinical ethicists for the cantonal hospital Lucerne and Lucerne Psychiatry as well as the central ethics committee (ZEK) of the Swiss Academy of Medical Scienes.
Research Interest
- clinical ethics
- ethics in psychiatry
- early career bioethicists/clinical ethicists
- shared-decision-making
- patient autonomy
- ought-is gap
- transformative ethics
- implementation scienes
- severe and persistent mental illness
- physician-patient relationship
Ongoing Projects
- Implementing clinical ethics structures in psychiatric care