Oren Asman receives Tenure

Dr.  Asman is a member of the Department of Nursing at the School of Health Professions. He is the founder and co-director of the Bioethics and Law Center at Tel Aviv University. His doctorate at the Hebrew University focused on mental competence in Israeli law, both in Rabbinical and Shar'i courts. His role as Chair of District Psychiatric Committees inspires some of his current research projects. Following his doctorate he joined the Harvard Project on Disability led by Prof. Michael Stein and the Harvard Program in Psychiatry, Law and Ethics led by Prof. Harold Bursztajn. The Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics has been a strong supporter of the Bioethics Center he established at TAU. His role as Co-chair of the Mental Health Forum in the Israeli Bar Association opened the door for several highly attended Law and Medicine events during the COVID-19 pandemic.

https://www.bioethics.center/

The Corona pandemic put to the forth major bioethical concerns relating to public health policy, resource allocation, medical research ethics, public compliance with health promotion recommendations, privacy and human rights in times of emergency. Dr. Asman studies these issues from a normative perspective, as well as from a cognitive, behavioral one. He partners with psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses and  jurists in his work that connects case-based ethics with policy, and empirical evidence with normative claims. A big portion of his research focuses on Mental Health, Law and Ethics.