Nikola Biller-Andorno, Prof. Dr. med. Dr. phil.
- Director
- Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine (IBME)
- University of Zurich
- Phone
- +41 44 634 40 80
Prof. Dr. med. Dr. phil. Nikola Biller-Andorno, MHBA, trained as a physician and biomedical ethicist at the Universities of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Hagen and Göttingen, Germany. Prior to her current position as chair of biomedical ethics at the University of Zurich she served as member of the ethics team of the World Health Organization (2002 to 2004), and as professor and founding director of the Institute for Ethics in Medicine at the Charité, Berlin (2004 to 2005). Between 2012 and 2014, she was a visiting professor and Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow at Harvard, exploring ethical issues at the interface of healthcare management and economics. From 2016 to 2020, she held a fellowship at the Collegium Helveticum (the joint Institute of Advanced Studies of UZH, ETH Zurich and the Zurich University of the Arts), focused on the digital transformation of medicine. As a Past-President of the International Association of Bioethics and as director of a WHO Collaborating Centre for Bioethics, she has a keen interest in the global dimension of the key bioethical challenges our societies face. From 2021 to 2025, Nikola Biller-Andorno served as Vice Dean Innovation and Digitalization of the UZH Medical Faculty.
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Current affiliations/positions
- Chair of Biomedical Ethics and Director, Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine, University of Zurich (UZH), a WHO Collaborating Center for Bioethics
- Co-Director, interuniversity Forum for Medical Humanities (UZH/HSG)
- Co-Director, interfaculty PhD program "Biomedical Ethics and Law (MeF/RWF)
- Vice President, Clinical Ethics Committee, University Hospital Zurich
- Membre du Conseil d'orientation stratégique, Université de Genève
- Foundation Council member, Swiss National Science Foundation
- President of Board, Foundation Health Compass
- Ethics consultant, Foundation Larsson Rosenquist Foundation
- Senate member, Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences
- Foundation Council member, Swiss National Research Council
- Member, European Group on Ethics
- Fellow, Hastings Center
- Senior Fellow, Commonwealth Fund
Research interests
- Digitalization of health and AI
- Patient experiences
- Healthcare ethics, management and economics