Dr. Moran Bodas

Dr. Bodas is the acting director of the Israel National Center for Trauma & Emergency Medicine Research, Gertner Institute of Epidemiology in Israel. In addition, he is a clinical lecturer at the Department of Emergency Management & Disaster Medicine (Tel Aviv University), and a faculty member at the Ph.D. Program in Global Health, Humanitarian Aid and Disaster Medicine, and the European Master in Disaster Medicine, both at Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italy).

End-of-life processes are becoming more complex due to social norms and ethics. Terminally-ill patients and their caregivers are faced with a myriad of issues, including the patient’s will and ability to accept the truth and the doctors’ hardship in delivering it, willingness to come to term with the news, and shifting to palliative treatment, the level of doctor’s involvement in the end-of-life process, the legitimacy of such process, etc. Recent studies in Israel among physicians and the public confirm this complexity and call for further research. the research led by Dr. Bodas and Dr. Baruch Velan (Gertner Institute) is aimed at generating a database of public opinion in Israel concerning the issue of life termination, collecting epidemiological data on actual end-of-life processes in the last five years in Israel, and identifying differences in attitudes across subgroups in the population.