Prof. Dr. med. Dr. phil. Manuel Trachsel

Prof. Manuel Trachsel (MD, PhD) is the head of the Clinical Ethics Unit at the University Hospital Basel, the University Psychiatric Clinics Basel, the Geriatric University Hospital Basel, and the University Children’s Hospital Basel, Switzerland. Dr. Trachsel has been trained in medicine (MD), psychology (PhD), and philosophy (MA) at the University of Bern, Switzerland. He has been a visiting research fellow at the Bioethics Center of the University of Otago, New Zealand (2014), and a research fellow at the Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA (2016-2017).

Dr. Trachsel has been awarded with the 2020 Mark S. Ehrenreich Global Prize in Healthcare Ethics Research by the Pacific Center for Health Policy and Ethics, University of Southern California.

Dr. Trachsel’s research areas include the philosophy and ethics of psychiatry and psychotherapy, the intersection of psychiatry and palliative care, ethical challenges with regard to coercive measures in psychiatry, clinical ethics support services in psychiatry, medical decision-making capacity, and informed consent.

He is a published author of more than 100 scientific papers, book chapters, and books including articles in JAMA, The Lancet Psychiatry, The American Journal of Bioethics, The Journal of Medical Ethics, The British Journal of Psychiatry, and Frontiers in Psychiatry among others. Furthermore, Dr. Trachsel is the lead editor of the Oxford Handbook of Psychotherapy Ethics.

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