Vice-chair Ehsan Shamsi Gooshki

Dr. Ehsan Shamsi Gooshki graduated as M.D. (2005) and Ph.D. in medical ethics (2013). Internship at World Health Organization HQ, Research fellowship at “Institute of Biomedical Ethics, University of Zurich” and “Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University”, are among his experiences before starting his career as “Assistant Professor at Medical Ethics and History of Medicine Research Center, recently assigned as WHO collaborating center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences” and also simultaneously “Secretary of the National Research Ethics Committee”. Beside teaching and research activities, his most prominent works are developing the first Code of Ethics for Iran Medical Council and establishment of a national online system for accreditation of research ethics committees and indexing REC approvals. Since 2018 he is a member of UNESCO International Bioethics Committee (IBC).