| Name: |
Prof. dr. J.J.M. van Delden |
| Function: |
Professor Medical Ethics |
| Department: |
Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care |
| E-mail address: |
j.j.m.vandelden@umcutrecht.nl |
| Phone number: |
+31 (0) 88 75 59361 |
| Fax number: |
+31 (0) 88 75 55485 |
| Visiting address: |
UMC Utrecht
Heidelberglaan 100
3584 CX Utrecht
Room: STR 7.139 |
| Correspondence: |
Room: STR 6.131
PO Box 85500
3508 GA Utrecht
The Netherlands |
Biographical sketch Johannes JM van Delden (1960) is professor of medical ethics at the medical school of Utrecht University. He also works as a nursing home physician in a nursing home in the Netherlands. He wrote a thesis on the medical and ethical aspects of Do Not Resuscitate orders. Also, he was one of the principal researchers of the study of medical decisions concerning the end of life for the Remmelink committee.
He was secretary of the International Association of Bioethics. His special fields of interest are: research ethics, moral problems at the end of life and moral problems in the care for the elderly.