Prof. Dr. med. Dr. phil. Nikola Biller-Andorno, MHBA, directs the Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine, University of Zurich (UZH), Switzerland, a WHO Collaborating Centre for Bioethics. She leads the UZH Center for Medical Humanities as well as the PhD program “Biomedical Ethics and Law”. Biller-Andorno is a member of both the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences and the Swiss National Research Council and serves as Vice-President of the Clinical Ethics Committee of the University Hospital Zurich. A Past-President of the International Association of Bioethics, she is currently active as board member of the European Association of Centres of Medical Ethics and of DIPEx International. She held a Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellowship and Visiting Professorship at Harvard University (2012-14) as well as a Fellowship at the Collegium Helveticum (2016-20), the joint Institute of Advance Studies of UZH, ETH Zurich and the Zurich University of the Arts. In 2018, she obtained a Master of Health Business Administration (MHBA). Since 2021 Nikola Biller-Andorno is Vice Dean Innovation and Digitalization of the UZH Medical Faculty.

Digitalization of health and AI
Patient experiences
Healthcare ethics, management and economics

Database of Individual Patient Experiences - DIPEx.ch

ZORA (Zurich Open Repository and Archive)

PubMed

Teaching activities (regular core courses)

Medical school: “Introduction to Biomedical Ethics” (1st year), “Ethical Case Analysis” (3rd year), “Perspectives on Medicine” (2nd year), “Ethics, Theory and Law in Medicine” (2nd - 4th year), “Ethics for dentists” (4th year)

PhD program:

Foundations of Biomedical Ethics, Current Issues in Biomedical Ethics

Memberships (boards, committees etc.)

Editorial board member (Bioethics, Ethik in der Medizin, PLOS one); Reviewer for numerous journals (among them New England Journal, BMJ, Journal of Medical Ethics) and funding bodies (e.g. Wellcome Trust, German Research Foundation, Volkswagen Foundation, Swiss National Science Foundation, European Commission); member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Messerli Institute, Veterinary University Vienna; IRB of ETH Zurich; Central Ethics Committee of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (08-17); Board of the Ethics Center of the University of Zurich (Director of the Ethics Center 09-12); jury of the Stehr-Boldt-Award of the University of Zurich (President since 17); Ethics Committee of the University Hospital Zurich (Vice President since 08); Chair of University Accreditation Process for the Agency for Quality Assurance and Accreditation Austria (2018); Academic Editor for PLOS one

Active memberships in scientific societies

International Association of Bioethics (Board of Directors 07-09, President 09-11); European Society of Philosophy in Medicine and Health Care (Board Member 02-04); Swiss Society for Biomedical Ethics (Board of Directors since 07); Academy for Ethics in Medicine (Board of Directors 08-12)
Organisation of conferences (recent, selection)
Emerging World conference series (2017 on Gene Editing); Zurich-Harvard Intensive Bioethics Course (2016/2018); WHO Meeting on Ethics Guidance for Health Systems and Policy Research (2015)

Prizes, awards, fellowships

Young Investigator's Award of the American Pain Society (1997); Member of the Young Academy at the Berlin-Brandenburgische Academy of Sciences and the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina (01-06); Dissertation award of the University of Hagen, Germany (2002); Individual Membership of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (since 2009); Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice (Commonwealth Fund/Careum), Harvard School of Public Health (12-13); Safra Network Fellow, Harvard University (13-14); Fellow of the Collegium Helveticum, ETH/University of Zurich (16-20)