Karola Kreitmair
Associate Professor (Stanford University, PhD 2013)
Bioethics, Neuroethics, Clinical Ethics
Associate Professor (Medical History and Bioethics)
1430 Medical Sciences Center
Co-Director Path of Distinction in Bioethics (PoD-B)
Vice-Chair Hospital Ethics Committee
Biography
Professor Kreitmair’s scholarly work includes topics in clinical, research, and consumer ethics. Within clinical ethics, she works on questions around the determination of death in a clinical setting. In research ethics, she is interested in the moral status of novel “human brain surrogates”, such as human brain organoids. Within consumer bioethics, Professor Kreitmair focuses on digital behavioral technology, where she is particularly interested in the phenomenological, epistemological, and existential implications of self-tracking.
Some Recent Publications:
- (2023) “On the Ethical Permissibility of In Situ Reperfusion in Cardiac Transplantation after the Declaration of Circulatory Death”, Journal of Medical Ethics. [ONLINE FIRST: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jme-2022-108819]
- (2023) “Consciousness and the Ethics of Human Brain Organoid Research”, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 34(4), 518-528
- (2023) “Mobile Health Technology and Empowerment”, Bioethics, [ONLINE FIRST: https://doi.org/10.1111/bioe.13157]