Yonghui Ma Xiamen UniversityChina

Yonghui Ma is now Associate Professor on medical ethics/bioethics and also the Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics at Medical College, Xiamen University. She had a bachelor degree on Medicine from Southeast University (Nanjing), MA from Peking Union Medical College (Beijing), and obtained her PhD on bioethics from the University of Manchester in the UK on 2013 (under full scholarship and supervised by Prof. John Harris). She is also member of International Association of Bioethics (IAB), member and Secretary of Chinese Bioethics Association, Vice Chair of Youth Committee of the Medical Ethics Branch of the Chinese Medical Association. She also serves as editorial committee member of Accountability in Research (IF:2.6), editorial committee member of Nursing Ethics (IF:4.3), editorial Member of Chinese Medical Ethics Journal, and editorial Member of Medicine and Philosophy Journal. She also serves as Institutional Review Board member (IRB,or Ethics consultants) in many tertiary hospitals in Xiamen as well as some other academic Institutions. She is also member of ABC (Advisory Bioethics Committee) of Sanofi. She is also member of ICH E6R3 domestic expert panel. Dr. Ma’s research interests focus on genetic ethics, clinical ethics, ethics of new biomedical technology, cross-cultural bioethics, and recently she has a particular interest in ethics of human microbiome research. She has published on American Journal of Bioethics (Target Article), BMC Medical Ethics, Nursing Ethics, Bioethics, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, Asian Bioethics Review, Lancet, Experimental Dermatology, Protein & cell, as well as Chinese journals, e.g. Chinese Medical Ethics, Medicine and Philosophy, Chinese Medical Journal.