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Co-founder with Olivier Guillod and deputy director of the Institute of Health Law (Institut de droit de la santé, IDS) of the University of Neuchâtel (http://www.unine.ch/ids), he is an expert in legisprudence, he collaborated in the drafting of several legislations in the field of health and healthcare at the cantonal, Swiss and European level. He is also regularly invited by scientific and professional associations in developing their guidelines in those fields. For instance, he coordinated the drafting of the 2006 Olympic Movement Medical Code of the International Olympic Committee, as well as its 2016 revision, and contributed to the 2008 and 2013 revisions of the Declaration of Helsinki of the World Medical Association as well as the 2016 Declaration of Taipei on Health Databases and Biobanks. Expert in the field of patient’s rights and public health law with special interest in the regulation of research with human subjects, patient’s rights, the regulation of healthcare professionals, pharmaceutical and food stuff regulation, he has written more than 100 scientific publications, articles and book chapters on those issues. He is invited as expert by several organizations working in the field of health law and ethics at the national and international level (e.g. Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences, Council of Europe, European Union, World Medical Association and World Health Organization). He is one of the founders of the European Network of Research Ethics Committees supported by the European Commission (www.eurecnet.org ). Since 2006, he is also the coordinator of the initiative Training and Resources in Research Ethics Evaluation (TRREE) which aims at providing a free, open access and multilingual online training program in research ethics and regulation (http://elearning.trree.org).
Career Path
2016 – :
Academic director of the PhD Program «Health, Medicine and Society», Uni. Neuchâtel
2016 – :
Chairman of the Ethics Committee of the University of Neuchâtel
2015 – :
Vice-director of the Swiss School of Public Health+ (SSPH+)
2014:
Visiting Professor, Bioethics & Law Center, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
2013 – :
Vice-director of the Ecole Romande de Santé publique (ERSP)
2008–2012:
Lecturer, responsible for the Human and Social Sciences module, Faculty of sciences, Departement of medicine, University of Fribourg
2006 – :
Professor, Chair of Health Law, Faculty of Law, University of Neuchâtel
2001–2007:
Associate Professor, Faculties of Law, Universities of Fribourg and of Neuchâtel (SNF Professorship)
2002:
Visiting Professor, Centre de recherche en droit public, Université de Montréal, Canada
1999–2001:
Legal counsellor (50%), Departement of Public Health and Social Affairs, Canton of Fribourg
1997–1999:
Scientific collaborator (50%), Institute of Federalism, University of Fribourg
1996–1997:
Advanced researcher (Fellowship SNF) and bourse d’excellence du Ministère de l’éducation du gouvernement du Québec, Centre de recherche en droit public (CRDP), University of Montreal and Clinical Trial Research Group (CTRG), McGill University, Montreal, Canada
1994–2001:
Senior researcher, Faculty of Law, University of Neuchâtel
1993 – :
Founder with Olivier Guillod of the Institute of Health Law (IDS), Faculty of Law, University of Neuchâtel, and since then Deputy-Director of the IDS
1992–2002:
Legal Advisor of the Swiss Drug Agency (IKS and then Swissmedic)
1992–1994:
Research assistant, Health Law, Faculty of Law, University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland)
1990–1991:
Visiting Scholar, Yale Law School and Post-Doctoral Fellow, Yale Medical School, fellowship SNF (Swiss National Science Foundation)
1988–1992:
Research assistant, Constitutional Law, Faculty of Law, University of Fribourg (Switzerland)