Christiane Druml

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Christiane Druml

Christiane Druml (born May 4, 1955 in Vienna ) is an Austrian lawyer and bioethicist.

Since 2007 she has been chairwoman of the bioethics commission at the Federal Chancellery of the Republic of Austria (Austrian Bioethics Commission). From October 1, 2011 to September 30, 2015, she was also Vice Rector for Clinical Affairs at the Medical University of Vienna . Since 2012 she has been director of the Josephinum - Collections and History of Medicine. In January 2016 she was entrusted with the management of the UNESCO Chair for Bioethics at the Medical University of Vienna.

Life

After completing her education at the Akademisches Gymnasium Vienna , Christiane Druml studied law at the University of Vienna . During her studies she was a study assistant at the Institute for Civil Law with Rudolf Welser . After her doctorate in 1978 and the court year, she worked as a university assistant at the Institute for Constitutional and Administrative Law at Felix Ermacora . Subsequently, she was responsible for the “Austro-French Center for Encounters from European Countries with Different Economic and Social Systems” at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Comparisons. From 1981 Christiane Druml was entrusted with the corporate law of group investments and the art budget in the general management of Creditanstalt-Bankverein . From 1989 to 1992 she was managing director of Parexel Austria, the former AFB-Arzneimittelforschung, an international medical contract research institute. In 1992 Christiane Druml was appointed managing director of the ethics committee at the Medical Faculty of the University of Vienna, now the Medical University of Vienna , which she held until October 1, 2011. From October 1, 2011 to September 30, 2015, she was also Vice Rector for Clinical Affairs at the Medical University of Vienna.

Christiane Druml has been Director of the Josephinum - Medical Collections and Head of the Institute for Ethics, Collections and History of Medicine at the Medical University of Vienna since October 2015. Since January 2016 she has held the UNESCO Chair for Bioethics at the Medical University of Vienna.

In April 2016 the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Rare and Undiagnosed Diseases was founded, at which Christiane Druml heads the ethics working group.

In the course of the COVID-19 pandemic , after Martin Sprenger left , she was appointed to the advisory team of the Coronavirus Task Force in the Ministry of Health .

It gained an international reputation, among other things, through its commitment to compliance with transparent medical research that is subject to the highest ethical principles. It also pursued these goals by establishing the “Vienna Initiative to Save European Academic Research” (VISEAR) in 2005, which was supposed to focus on the importance of non-commercially funded clinical research within Europe. Christiane Druml is married and has three children.

Bioethics Commission at the Federal Chancellery

In 2007 Christiane Druml was appointed by the then Federal Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer as chairman of the bioethics commission at the Federal Chancellery of the Republic of Austria, the national bioethics commission of Austria. This function was confirmed for a further term of office in 2009, 2011, 2014 and 2017.

Under her chairmanship, the following statements on various topics were adopted and published:

  • Umbilical cord blood banks , resolution of the Bioethics Commission of May 19, 2008
  • Gender-related recommendations for ethics committees and clinical studies , resolution of the bioethics committee of November 15, 2008
  • Research on human embryonic stem cells , opinion of the Bioethics Commission of March 16, 2009
  • Ethical aspects of the development and use of assistive technologies , opinion of the bioethics committee of July 13, 2009
  • Gene and genome tests on the Internet , opinion of the Bioethics Commission of May 10, 2010
  • Codification of research law , opinion of the Bioethics Commission of 10 January 2011
  • Biobanks for scientific research , supplement to the report of the Bioethics Commission from May 2007
  • Terminology of medical decisions at the end of life , recommendations of the Bioethics Commission of June 27, 2011
  • Restriction of the area of ​​application of the Reproductive Medicine Act to different-sex couples , opinion of the Bioethics Commission to the Constitutional Court of April 16, 2012
  • Research on persons incapable of giving consent , opinion of the Bioethics Commission dated June 3, 2013
  • Opinion of the Bioethics Commission at the Federal Chancellery on the draft of a federal law that will amend the Reproductive Medicine Act, the General Civil Code and the Genetic Engineering Act (Reproductive Medicine Law Amendment Act 2015 - FMedRÄG2015)
  • Reform of reproductive medicine law , opinion of the Bioethics Commission of July 2, 2012
  • Dying in dignity - Recommendations for accompanying and caring for people at the end of life and related issues , opinion of the Bioethics Commission of February 9, 2015
  • Vaccination - ethical aspects , opinion of the Bioethics Commission of June 1, 2015
  • Participatory Medicine and the Internet , July 6, 2015
  • Intersexuality and Transsexuality from November 28, 2017
  • Robots in the care of the elderly from 2018
  • Medicine and Economics from 2018

Other functions and memberships (selection)

Honors

  • Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art (2011)
  • Appointment as Knight of the Legion of Honor by the President of the French Republic (decree of July 13, 2011)

Publications (selection)

Books

  • Ethics Committees and Clinical Research: A Guide for Everyone Interested in Medical Research . facultas.wuv, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-7089-0623-2 .

Book contributions

  • F. Ermacora, C. Wirth (Druml): The Austrian Federal Constitution and Hans Kelsen, Austrian Series for Legal and Political Science , Braumüller, Vienna 1982
  • C. Druml, HG Eichler, Current status of ethical review in Austria , in: F. Crawley, J. Hoet, Eds, An international comparative study of ethical review mechanisms for clinical trials and biomedical research , Chapman & Hall, London 1998.
  • World Health Organization (participation in the International Research and Drafting Committee), Surveying and Evaluating Ethical Review Practices , WHO Geneva 2002.
  • C. Druml, EA Singer, Oncological Studies from the Ethics Committee's View. Ethical Aspects in Oncological Research. G. Marckmann, JH Meran (editor); Deutscher Ärzteverlag 2006.
  • C. Druml, women and clinical research from the point of view of ethics committees , in: M. Hochleitner (editor), Gender Medicine , Volume 1, Facultas 2008.
  • C. Druml, Ethical issues - The role of national ethics committees. , in: JD Chiche, R. Moreno, C. Putensen, A. Rhodes (Ed.), Patient Safety and Quality of Care in Intensive Care Medicine. European Society of Intensive Care Medicine. (Medical Scientific Publishing Company - Congress Volume for ESICM September 2009).
  • C. Druml, Can continuous ethical reflection be institutionalized? About the political and legal function of ethics committees - a personal consideration. , in: J. Inthorn J (Editor), Guidelines, Ethical Standards and Critical Corrective. A Topography of Ethical Reflection in the Context of Medicine , Volume 7 of the Ethics Edition. Edited by R. Anselm and UHJ Körtner, Edition Ruprecht, Göttingen 2010.
  • C. Druml, EA Singer, Ethics in clinical research , in: M. Müller (editor), Clinical pharmacology: current topics and case studies / Markus Müller ed .: Springer, 2010.
  • C. Druml, Ethics Commissions - Guidelines, "Scientific Integrity" and Need for Reform , in: UHJ Körtner, C. Kopetzki, C. Druml (editor), Ethics and Law in Human Research , Series Ethics and Law in Medicine, Volume 5 Springer 2011 .
  • C. Druml, Das Josephinum Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-85033-822-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heiner Boberski: Christiane Druml. In: Wiener Zeitung. October 5, 2007, accessed April 25, 2020 .
  2. ↑ New UNESCO Chair of Bioethics will reinforce ethics research and education . Last accessed on April 15, 2016
  3. ^ Members of the Bioethics Commission
  4. ^ Head of the Josephinum
  5. ↑ UNESCO Chair for Bioethics
  6. ^ Christiane Druml Deputy Director
  7. ↑ Coronavirus - Taskforce: Ministry of Health sets up taskforce. In: Sozialministerium.at. Retrieved April 10, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Christiane Druml follows Martin Sprenger on the Corona advisory board. In: DerStandard.at . April 10, 2020, accessed April 10, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Bioethics Commission in the Austrian Federal Chancellery ( Memento of the original from July 6, 2011 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bka.gv.at
  10. ↑ Austrian Medical Journal - Interview with Dr. Christiane Druml
  11. ↑ a b c Publications Bioethics of the Federal Chancellery
  12. ↑ Der Standard - High honor for Christiane Druml
  13. ^ Medical University of Vienna - Cross of Honor for Christiane Druml
personal data
SURNAME Druml, Christiane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer and bioethicist
DATE OF BIRTH May 4th 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna