Journal of Clinical Research & Bioethics

Alireza Bagheri

Alireza Bagheri
Assistant Professor, Medicine and Medical Ethics
University of Tehran, Iran

Biography

AlirezaBagheri is assistant professor of medicine and medical ethics, school of medicine, Tehran University of medical Sciences. He was a clinical ethics fellow in the Joint Center for Bioethics, University of Toronto, Canada 2007-08, Erasmus Mundus Visiting Professor at the University of Leuven, Belgium in 2007. He was Edmund Pellegrino Fellow in bioethics, a visiting scholar in the Center for Clinical Bioethics in Georgetown University, USA 2007-09. Ali is a member of the board of International Bioethics Association (IAB) and serves as the Vice-chairman of the UNESCO International Bioethics Committee ( IBC), in which he leads a working group on Organ, Cells and Tissue Transplantation and Trafficking.He is also a member of the Istanbul Declaration Custodian Group and as a temporary adviser to WHO, he has participated in the efforts to regulate requirements forXenotransplantation Clinical Trials.He serves as a member of the ethics committee of The Transplantation Society (TTS).

Research Interest

Clinical ethics consultation, brain death and organ transplantation, medical futility, externally-sponsored research in developing countries, cross-cultural bioethics, Islamic bioethics