Alireza Bagheri-chimeh, MD, PhD, is assistant professor of medicine and medical ethics, in School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences (Iran) and a research affiliate in the Centre for Health Care Ethics, Lakehead University (Canada). He is an Elected Fellow of The Hastings Center (USA).Dr. Bagheri served as a member of the UNESCO International Bioethics Committee (2010-2018) and a member of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Bioethics (2009-2014). He serves as the book series editor; Intercultural Dialogue in Bioethics by the Imperial College Press. In 2010, Dr. Bagheri received the Rhazes Medical Research Award for his work on medical futility and in 2018, he received the Bioethics Leadership Award in recognition of his contribution to the discipline of bioethics scholarship at the international level.Dr. Bagheri was a clinical ethics fellow at the Joint Center for Bioethics, University of Toronto, Canada (2006-7); Erasmus Mundus visiting professor in Leuven University, Belgium (2007–8); Edmund Pellegrino Fellow (2007); Visiting Scholar in the Center for Clinical Bioethics in Georgetown University, USA (2007–09). His published books include; Medical Futility (2013); Biomedical Ethics in Iran (2014); Global Bioethics (2015); Islamic Bioethics (2017). As a palliative care physician and a clinical ethicist, he advocates close attention to both; clinical realities as well as socio-cultural context in healthcare decision making.
