PROF. DR. MED. DR. PHIL. JOCHEN VOLLMANN
Director, Institute for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine
Ruhr-University Bochum
Malakowturm
Markstraße 258a
44799 Bochum
Germany
Tel.: +49 (0)234 32-23394
Fax: +49 (0)234 32-14205
jochen.vollmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de
Curriculum vitae
Qualifications
| 1982–1989 | Studies in Medicine and Philosophy in Giessen, Liverpool, Chicago and Zurich |
| 1989 | Medical State Examination and Final Exams in Philosophy |
| 1990 | Approbation as a Medical Doctor |
| 1991 | MD under Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Federlin, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany |
| 1994 | Medical Specialist in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy |
| 1996 | PhD in Philosophy, under Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Marquard, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany |
| 1998 | Habilitation in “Ethics in Medicine,” Medical Faculty, FU Berlin |
Professional Career
| 1989–1994 | Clinical training in neurology, psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychosomatic medicine at the university hospitals of Gießen, Munich (TU) and Freiburg i.Br. (internship, research assistant, scientific assistant C1) |
| 1994/95 | Visiting Fellow, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, Washington, DC |
| 1996–2001 | Professor for Social Medicine, Social Psychiatry and Medical Ethics, Protestant University of Applied Sciences Berlin |
| 2001–2005 | Professor of Medical Ethics, Faculty of Medicine, University Erlangen-Nuremberg |
| since 2005 | Professor and Director, Institute for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany |
Academic Positions
| 1997–1999 | Member of the Academic Senate of the Ev. University of Applied Sciences Berlin |
| 1997–2001 | Member of the Council of the Ev. Fachhochschule Berlin |
| 1997–2001 | Chair of the Ethics Committee of the Berlin Center for Public Health, Berlin Technical University |
| 2001–2005 | Member of the Ethics Committee of the Medical Faculty of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg |
| 2001–2005 | Founding member and moderator of the Clinical Ethics Committee of the University Hospital Erlangen |
| since 2005 | Member of the Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Medicine, Ruhr-University Bochum |
| 2006–2010 | Member of the Scientific Executive Board, Ruhr-University Research School (Excellence Initiative of the German Federal and State Governments) |
| 2006–2011 | Member of the Academic Senate of the Ruhr-University Bochum |
| 2011–2017 | Member of the Senate Quality Commission of the Ruhr-University Bochum |
Scholarships, Awards
- Scholarship of the German National Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
- Postdoctoral fellowship from the German Research Foundation (DFG)
- Fellowship in Medical Ethics, Harvard Medical School (declined)
- Award for Brain Research in Geriatrics, Private University Witten/Herdecke
- Visiting Professor Volkswagen Stiftung, Program in Medical Ethics, University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine (UCSF) and Department of Medical Education, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York 1999/2000
- Stehr-Boldt-Award for Medical Ethics, University of Zurich
- Visiting Scholar, Institute for the Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston 2001
- Visiting Professor, Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, University of Sydney 2004
- Best Practice Award “Dialogue in Cancer“German Cancer Society
- Visiting Professor, Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, University of Sydney 2009
- Award of Appreciation, Tokyo Society of Medical Sciences and Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo 2009
- University Teaching Prize, Ruhr-University Bochum 2009
- Academic Teaching Prize “Gaudium docendi” Society of Friends and Patrons of the Ruhr-University Bochum
- Miembro Honorario, Asociación Peruana de Bioética, Lima (Peru) 2011
- Visiting Professor, Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, University of Sydney 2012
- Advancement Award for Palliative Medicine, German Society for Palliative Medicine 2013
- Award “Teaching Students” of the German Society for Medical Education 2014 (supervision)
- Visiting Professor, Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, University of Sydney 2016
- Award for Innovative Teaching, German Society for Medical Education
- Visiting Professor, Center for Biomedical Ethics and Law, University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo 2019
- Visiting Professor, Department of Ethics, University of Kyoto 2022
MEMBERSHIP IN SCIENTIFIC PROFESSIONAL ORGANISATIONS
- International Association of Bioethics (IAB)
- European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care (ESPMH)
- European Association of Centres of Medical Ethics (EACME) (institutional membership)
- Academy for Ethics in Medicine (AEM)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Ethics and history of informed consent and capacity assessment
- Concept of empiricism of capacity assessment
- End-of-life decision-making
- Advance directives
- Brain death criteria in transplantation medicine
- Ethics in psychiatry
- Empirical medical ethics
- Personalized medicine
- Medical professionalism
- Clinical ethics committees and clinical ethics consultation
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PICTURES AND SHORT BIOGRAPHIES
SHORT BIOGRAPHY
Prof. Dr. med. Dr. phil. Jochen Vollmann is a physician and medical ethicist. He directs the Institute for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine at the Ruhr-University Bochum. Prof. Dr. med. Dr. phil. Jochen Vollmann, clinical specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy, is director of the Institute for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine at the Ruhr University Bochum.
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Professor Jochen Vollmann is Director of the Institute for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, Ruhr−University Bochum, Germany. He is a physician and philosopher working in the field of medical ethics for 30 years. His research interests include informed consent and capacity assessment, ethics and psychiatry, end−of−life decision−making, empirical ethics, clinical ethics committees and clinical ethics consultation.
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Jochen Vollmann, M.D., Ph.D. is Professor and Director of the Institute for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. He completed a clinical training in psychiatry and psychotherapy at the University Hospitals in Gießen, Munich and Freiburg and wrote his habilitation thesis on ethical problems of informed consent in psychiatry at the Free University of Berlin. Prof. Vollmann was Visiting Fellow at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University Washington, DC and Visiting Professor at the University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine and at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, at the Institute for the Medical Humanities UTMB, the Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine at the University of Sydney and the Department of Ethics, Kyoto University. He received several academic awards for his research and teaching. Prof. Vollmann’s research interests include informed consent and capacity assessment, ethics in psychiatry, end-of-life decision-making, advance directives, medical professionalism, clinical ethics committees and clinical ethics consultation. A downloadable PDF can be found here