Manuel Trachsel

Manuel Trachsel (MD, PhD) is professor of Biomedical Ethics at the University of Basel, Switzerland, and 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, and a research fellow at the Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA.

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.