Herman Nys

P1.4 Herman Nys teaches medical law in the medical and law school of the KULeuven and is also professor in international health law at the University of Maastricht. He is the author of a standard work on Belgian medical law that was published in Dutch (1991) and French (1995). He is the editor of the International Encyclopaedia of Medical Law, a review of medical law of many national states. His main research interests are genetics, biomedical research with human beings and end of life. He is past-president of the Advisory Group on Ethics of Europabio and member of the Belgian Advisory Council on Bioethics and different institutional ethics committees. He was vice president of the 14th World Congress on Medical Law in Maastricht, August 2002. Since July 2003 he is the first president of the Belgian commission of patient rights.

• Teacher of Medical Law in the Medical law School, Catholic University Leuven.