Dr. Jozef Glasa

Dr. Glasa is a Slovakian physician, clinical researcher and bio ethicist. He teaches clinical pharmacology, therapeutics and medical ethics/bioethics at the Slovak Medical University in Bratislava.

He is the founding editor of the journal Medical Ethics & Bioethics, as well as co-editor of several textbooks on medical ethics, nursing ethics, and bioethics. In addition to serving as chair of the Ethics Committee of the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic, Dr. Glasa is a member of the Steering Committee on Bioethics at the Council of Europe.

Since October 2005 he serves on a select advisory committee at the European Committee in Brussels, the European Group of Ethics (EGE).

Since 1993, he is director of Institute of Medical Ethics and Bioethics in Bratislava, and more recently he has assumed duties as president of the Central and East European Association of Bioethics (CEEAB).