Dr. Shlomit Zuckerman
Israel
As the principal researcher Dr. Shlomit Zuckerman designs, conducts and evaluates with her team the effectiveness of patient safety interventions in hospital setting. She is a member of the Ethics Committee of the Beilinson Medical Center in Petah Tikva. Shlomit has published her work in peer reviewed Journals and book chapters. Her research interests include ethics, law and human rights in disaster and emergency management, public health ethics, end of life decision-making, ethics in medical education, and patient safety.
Professional experience
Dr. Shlomit Zuckerman is one of the founders of the Center for Bioethics and Law at TAU Faculty of Medicine and a board member of the European Society for the Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care (ESPMH) since 2022. She is teaching graduate students at TAU and Hebrew U. and serves as an academic advisor of graduate students in final projects at the Master of Disaster management program at TAU since 2020.
As a medical risk manager at Inbal Insurance Company, she provides medicolegal and ethical counseling and training to hospital team members and Israeli Ministry of Health task teams and quality and safety committees.
Education
Dr. Shlomit Zuckerman received a BSc. in Biology (Cum Laude) and LL. B in Law from Hebrew U. in Jerusalem (1993), MA and PhD in Empirical Bioethics from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland Ohio, US (2008).
Israel
- Place of affiliation
- Da Costa, Karen Da Costa and Zuckerman, Shlomit, Human Rights and Ethics in the Management of the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Experience of Brazil and Israel, in Disaster Construction and Reconstruction: Lessons from Covid-19 for Ethics, Politics and Law, Editors Donal Omathuna and Veselin Mitrovic, Institute of Social Sciences, Belgrade 2024
- Zuckerman S., Kimsma GK., Devisch I., "Surprising pandemic experiences: A confrontation between principle-based and virtue ethics, and a plea for virtue ethics training for medical students and residents. A rudimentary outline of a four-step model," Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Research, 2023 1-8 Q2
- Zuckerman S., "I would Come Home With Tears in my Eyes": the Caregiver as a Second Victim During Routine Work and at the Pandemic "Harefuah", Hebrew, 2022 Q4
- Zuckerman, S., Barlavie, Y., Niv, Y., Arad, D., & Lev, S. (2021). Accessing unproven interventions in the COVID-19 pandemic: discussion on the ethics of ‘compassionate therapies’ in times of catastrophic pandemics. Journal of Medical Ethics, 48(12), 1000-1005.Q1
- Zuckerman S., Zarka S., Farchat M., "Ethical Issues in the Care of Syrian Patients in Israeli Hospitals", in Humanitarian Ethics and Action, Ahmand A. and Smith J. eds, Zed Books, June 2018
- Zuckerman S., Indifferent or Uninformed? Reflections of Health Professionals on Education and Consent for Expanded Newborn Screening in Israel, 2008-2016, Int. J. Neonatal Screen. 2017, 3(2), 12; doi:10.3390/ijns3020012 Q2
- Zuckerman S., Mesner O., Zmora E., 2013. Living on the frontline: ethical issues in the care of extremely premature newborns in Israel, Current Paediatric Reviews 9(1): 46-49(4) Q3
- Barilan YM and Zuckerman S., 2013. Revisiting medical neutrality as a moral value and as a doctrine in international law in "Military Medical Ethics for the 21st Century", Michael Gross and Don Carrick (eds.), Ashgate publishing.
- Natowicz MR, Zuckerman S., 2009. On treatability: considerations of treatment in the context of newborn screening HealthMatrix: Journal of Law-Medicine 19(1):187-97 Q4
