Bioethics Commission at the Federal Chancellery

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AustriaAustria  Bioethics Commission at the Federal Chancellery (Commission)p1
State level Federation
position Independent advisory body
At sight Federal Chancellery (office)
founding 2001 (Federal Law Gazette II 226/2001)
Headquarters Vienna 1st , Hohenstaufengasse 3
management Christiane Druml
Website www.bka.gv.at/bioethikkommission

The Bioethics Commission at the Federal Chancellery ( Commission for short ) is an advisory body to the Austrian Federal Chancellor based in Vienna . It is the Austrian ethics commission for medical ethics at the federal level .

organization

tasks

The commission advises the Federal Chancellor "on all social, scientific and legal questions from an ethical point of view that arise in connection with the development of science in the field of human medicine and biology " (§ 2 Federal Law Gazette II 226/2001). These include in particular:

  1. Information and promotion of the discussion about important findings in human medicine / biology and the related ethical questions in society
  2. Making recommendations for practice
  3. Making suggestions about necessary legal measures
  4. Preparation of reports on special questions

membership

The commission consists of 15-25 voting members, each appointed for a term of three years. Re-appointment is possible (§ 3 ff BGBl. II 226/2001).

Members:

  • Christiane Druml : Director of the Josephinum collections at the Medical University of Vienna; Holder of the UNESCO Chair (United Nations Education, Science and Culture) Chair in Bioethics; Former Vice Rector for Clinical Affairs at the Medical University of Vienna (2011–2015); former member of the International Bioethics Committee of UNESCO (2008–2015); Member of the Supreme Medical Council of the Republic of Austria.
  • Markus Hengstschläger : Deputy Chairman; University Professor for Medical Genetics , Head of the Institute for Medical Genetics at the Medical University of Vienna , Member of the Council for Research and Technology Development
  • Peter Kampits : Deputy Chairman; University professor for philosophy at the Philosophical Institute of the University of Vienna , chairman of the Vienna advisory board for bio- and medical ethics, head of the “Research Center for Ethics and Science in Dialogue”, the Center for Ethics in Science at the Lower Austrian State Academy and the Vienna Documentation Center for Ethics science
  • Matthias Beck : Associate professor for moral theology with a focus on medical ethics; Expert in the German Bundestag , memberships: Advisory Committee of the European Bishops' Conferences (COMECE) in Brussels , European Academy of Sciences and Arts , Academy for Ethics in Medicine, European Society for Catholic Theology (ESCT / ET), International Association for Moral Theology and Social Ethics, Association of Bioethicists in Central Europe (BCE)
  • Alois Birklbauer : University professor for criminal law at the Johannes Kepler University Linz ; Head of the Department of Criminal Law Practice and Medical Criminal Law. Member of various socio-political commissions (Victim Protection Commission of the State of Upper Austria, Prison Commission for Upper Austria, Human Rights Advisory Board at the Federal Ministry of the Interior) and parliamentary bodies (Commission of Inquiry on the Reform of Criminal Law Sanctions, Judicial Subcommittee on the Reform of the StPO)
  • Andrea Bronner : Vienna Psychoanalytical Association , specialist in psychiatry and neurology. Deputy Chairwoman of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Association
  • Christian Egarter : Associate Professor for Gynecological Endocrinology and Reproductive Medicine, Medical University of Vienna ; University Clinic for Gynecology, Head of the Department of Gynecological Endocrinology and Reproductive Medicine
  • Thomas Frühwald : Senior Consultant in the Department of Acute Geriatrics at Hietzing Hospital with the Rosenhügel Neurological Center, Vienna; Specialist in internal medicine and geriatrics. Board member of the Austrian Society for Geriatrics and Gerontology. 2008 Awarded the professional title of Professor. 2010 Awarded the Ignatius Nascher Prize for Geriatrics from the City of Vienna. Member of the Vienna Advisory Board for Bio- and Medical Ethics. Member of the Advisory Board for Geriatric Medicine of the Federal Ministry of Health
  • Ludwig Kaspar : Specialist in internal medicine (cardiology, intensive care medicine), head of the health and preventive care center in the Hera sanatorium , spokesman for the Austrian Hospital and Healthcare Services platform of the Austrian Association of Public Economy and Community and Member of the Steering Committee (HOSPEEM, Brussels)
  • Lukas Kenner : Associate Professor for Molecular Pathology, Clinical Institute for Pathology, Medical University of Vienna . Head of department at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Cancer Research
  • Maria Kletecka-Pulker : Managing Director at the Institute for Ethics and Law in Medicine at the University of Vienna, Research Associate at the Medical University of Vienna, Member of the Board of the Austrian Platform for Patient Safety.
  • Ursula Köller : University professor for medical and chemical laboratory diagnostics at the Medical University of Vienna , head of the Institute for Laboratory Medicine with Serology and Infection Diagnostics at Hietzing Hospital with the Rosenhügel Neurological Center
  • Johannes Gobertus Meran : University professor for internal medicine , head of the department for internal medicine in the hospital Barmherzige Brüder (Vienna) , editor of the discussion forum on medical ethics, co-editor of the Viennese medical weekly, professor for pastoral medicine of the phil. theol. Heiligenkreuz University, member of the board of the Austrian Society for Hematology and Oncology
  • Stephanie Merckens : Lawyer; Consultant for bioethics and life protection as well as member of the advisory board of the Institute for Marriage and Family of the Austrian Bishops' Conference, member of the family advisory board of the Province of Upper Austria, member of the board of the regional school council of Upper Austria, former lawyer
  • Barbara Prainsack : (Full) Professor of Sociology at the Department for Social Science, Health & Medicine at King's College London; Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Twin Research & Genetic Epidemiology, St. Thomas' Hospital, King's College London, and visiting professor at the Center for Biomedicine & Society at Brunel University, London. UK representative in the social, legal and humanities domain in COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology).
  • Walter Schaupp : University professor for moral theology at the Catholic-Theological Faculty of the Karl-Franzens University Graz , member of the ethics committee of Eurotransplant and the ethics committee at the regional hospital University Clinic Graz
  • Andreas Valentin : Specialist in internal medicine (intensive medicine, cardiology); Head of the Internal Medicine Department, Cardinal Schwarzenberg's Hospital, Schwarzach im Pongau, former Head of the General and Internal Intensive Care Unit, Rudolf Foundation Vienna ; Former President of the Austrian Association of Intensive Care Medical Societies (2011–2014), President of the Austrian Society for Internal and General Intensive Care Medicine and Emergency Medicine (2014–2017), Head of the Working Group on Quality Improvement of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, Head of postgraduate university course "Patient Safety and Quality in the Health System" (Medical University of Vienna and University of Vienna).
  • Klaus Voget : Board member of the Donaustadt District Court in Vienna, President of the Austrian Working Group for Rehabilitation, President of the Austrian Civil Invalid Association
  • Ina Wagner : University professor for Multidisciplinary Design and Computer Supported Cooperative Work, head of the Institute for Design and Effect Research at the Vienna University of Technology
  • Jürgen Wallner : Private Lecturer at the Law Faculty of the University of Vienna, Institute for Legal Philosophy, Religious and Cultural Law. Since 2010 head of personnel management, organizational development, ethics advice at the hospital of the Barmherzigen Brüder in Vienna.
  • Christiane Wendehorst : University professor for civil law, University of Vienna; Vice-President of the European Law Institute, full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences . Until 2008 she held a chair for civil law, medical law at the University of Göttingen, 2006–2008 member of the board of the Center for Medical Law at the University of Göttingen, 1999–2005 director of the department for medical and pharmaceutical law, 2001–2008 member of the ethics committee at the University Medical Center Göttingen, member of the Academy for Ethics in Medicine.
  • Siegfried Meryn (since 2017)
  • Gabriele Werner-Felmeyer (since 2017)
  • Christina Peters (since 2017)
  • Michael Mayrhofer (since 2017)

Former members:

  • Karl Acham (University of Graz, until 2007)
  • Meinrad Peterlik (Vienna General Hospital , until 2007)
  • Renee Schroeder (University of Vienna, until 2007)
  • Diana Bondermann (until 2017): University lecturer at the University Clinic for Internal Medicine II, Department of Cardiology, Medical University of Vienna , head of the cardiopulmonary working group of the Austrian Cardiological Society
  • Meinhard Kneussl (until 2017): University professor at the Medical University of Vienna and head of the 2nd Medical Department with Pneumology at the Wilhelminenspital Vienna, specialist in lung diseases, internal medicine, additive specialist in cardiology, internal / pneumological intensive medicine and internal sports medicine. Vice-President, from 2015 President of the Austrian Society for Pneumology, Fulbright Scholarship 1976/1977, Eiselsberg Prize Winner 1987, corresponding member of the American Physiological Society and Chairman of the Primary Physicians College at the Wilhelminenspital Vienna
  • Arnold Pollak (until 2017): University professor for paediatrics, Medical University of Vienna ; University Clinic for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine (additional areas: human genetics, intensive care medicine, neonatology and ped. Intensive care medicine). Board member in the Austrian Society for Pre- and Perinatal Medicine
  • Anna Sporrer (until 2017): Vice-President of the Administrative Court ; until the end of 2013 deputy section head in the constitutional service of the Federal Chancellery. Deputy Chairwoman of the Arbitration Commission of the Medical University of Vienna. 1999–2001 deputy member and 2009–2013 member of the Human Rights Advisory Board in the Ministry of the Interior and from 2012 of the Ombudsman's Office . 1995–1998 Chairwoman of the Equal Treatment Commission for the Private Sector. Expert in constitutional and administrative law, fundamental and human rights, equal treatment and anti-discrimination law

Managing directors

The commission is supported both organizationally and in terms of content by an office located in the Federal Chancellery (“The Federal Chancellery supports the commission and its organs in fulfilling their tasks,” § 9 BGBl. II 226/2001).

Working method and history

The Bioethics Commission was founded in 2001 under Chancellor Schüssel by ordinance (Federal Law Gazette II 226/2001) to address the increasingly precarious questions of the therapeutic human sciences from an ethical point of view, in particular genetic engineering and the then highly controversial pre- implantation diagnostics , stem cell research or cloning , as well as To discuss euthanasia . In the following years she played a key role in the implementation of the Council of Europe's Biomedical Convention (Oviedo Convention, 1997; recommendation for "earliest possible" accession; Austria has not yet signed), the EU Biotechnology Directive  (98/44 / EC) or the amendments to the Reproductive Medicine Act (2004, again 2015).

In the following years this dealt with fundamental questions of medical ethics and current issues. In its advisory work for the Federal Chancellor, the Bioethics Commission gives recommendations for practice, works out proposals for necessary legal measures and prepares expert reports on special issues (statements).

In the past, recommendations related to the areas of terminology for medical decisions at the end of life, codification of research law , participatory medicine and medicine on the Internet (advice pages, gene and genome tests ), ethical aspects of the development and use of assistive technologies , research on human embryonic stem cells, recommendations Gender reference for ethics committees and clinical studies, umbilical cord blood banks , nanotechnology , a catalog of ethical problems and recommendations, biobanks for medical research, theses on the “ child as harm ” debate on the occasion of divergent decisions by the Supreme Court, pre-implantation diagnostics (PGD), stem cell research in the context of the 6th . EU Framework Program,

The Commission publishes an activity report every year.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. https://www.bundeskanzleramt.gv.at/lösungen-bioethik
  2. a b Ordinance of the Federal Chancellor on the establishment of a Bioethics Commission StF: Federal Law Gazette II No. 226/2001 (as amended online, ris.bka ).
  3. Members of the Commission ( Memento of the original from April 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , bundeskanzleramt.at.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bundeskanzleramt.at
  4. a b c d e f g h Bioethics Commission is newly appointed in July: Four new members in the advisory body for the Federal Chancellor . OTS notification dated June 27, 2017, accessed June 28, 2017.
  5. a b c Bioethics Commission: Moderate restructuring announced. sciencev1.orf.at - on new appointments to the Bioethics Commission in 2007.
  6. Office of the Bioethics Commission. ( Memento of the original from April 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. bundeskanzleramt.at.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bundeskanzleramt.at
  7. Federal Chancellor Kern welcomes the Bioethics Commission. Press release BKA, OTS0172, October 4, 2016.
  8. Biomedical Convention of the Council of Europe. ( Memento of the original from February 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / archiv.bundeskanzleramt.at archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Decision of the Bioethics Commission of February 11, 2002 (PDF, 22 kB; bundeskanzleramt.at).
  9. Biotechnology Directive. ( Memento of the original from February 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / archiv.bundeskanzleramt.at archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Decision of the Bioethics Commission of March 6, 2002 (PDF, 20 kB; bundeskanzleramt.at).
  10. Draft, Reproductive Medicine Act Amendment 2004. ( Memento of the original dated February 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / archiv.bundeskanzleramt.at archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Decision of the Bioethics Commission of March 10, 2004 (PDF, 14 kB; bundeskanzleramt.at).
  11. Reproductive Medicine Law Amendment Act 2015 - FMedRÄG 2015. ( Memento of the original dated February 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / archiv.bundeskanzleramt.at archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Statement of the Bioethics Commission of March 10, 2004 (PDF, 216 kB; bundeskanzleramt.at).
  12. Recommendations and opinions of the Bioethics Commission. ( Memento of the original from April 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. bundeskanzleramt.at.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bundeskanzleramt.at
  13. ^ Participatory Medicine and the Internet. ( Memento of the original from February 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / archiv.bundeskanzleramt.at archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Statement of the Bioethics Commission of July 6, 2015 (PDF, 549 kB; bundeskanzleramt.at).
  14. Report of the Bioethics Commission at the Federal Chancellery Biobanks for Medical Research. ( Memento of the original from February 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / archiv.bundeskanzleramt.at archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Report of the Bioethics Commission of May 9, 2007 (PDF, 125 kB; bundeskanzleramt.at).
  15. Activity reports of the commission since 2002. ( Memento of the original of April 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. bundeskanzleramt.at.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bundeskanzleramt.at