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looks forward to welcoming bioethicists from near and far to the 4^th IACB International Colloquium in Cologne. Dr. Sottong is a physician with a Master’s degree in Public Health. She is the Managing Director of the Malteser Akademie, which offers educational programmes in health care and health care ethics.

BACKGROUND PAPERS: 4^th IACB International Colloquium

Each newsletter leading up to the 4^th IACB International Colloquium will introduce some authors of the background papers for this colloquium.

Wilhelmina Hoffmann

is a geriatrician in Stockholm who specialises in caring for persons with dementia. She is the Managing Director of the Swedish Dementia Centre (Svenskt Demenscentrum), which was recently established as a centre of excellence by the Swedish government to focus on education and the translation of research into practice.

Julian C. Hughes holds the positions of Consultant in Old Age Psychiatry at the North Tyneside General Hospital in Newcastle, England, and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer in the Institute for Ageing and Health at the University of Newcastle. Before his medical studies, he read Philosophy, Economics, and Politics at Oxford University, and while pursuing specialized training there in Old Age Psychiatry, defended a Ph.D. thesis on Wittgenstein and dementia. Dr. Hughes is the Chair of the Philosophy Special Interest Group of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and was a member of the Working Party of the Nuffield Bioethics Council’s recent Consultation on Dementia. He is a co-editor of Dementia: Mind, Meaning, and the Person (2008), and co-author of Ethical Issues in Dementia Care: Making Difficult Decisions (2006).

Christine Jamieson is an associate professor and the Chair of the Faculty of Theological Studies at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. Her research and writing focus on considering how theology can mediate contemporary thought and culture. She is the Canadian project director of “Ethical and Policy Issues in the Sciences: A Comparative Study in Canada, the United States and Mexico,” and received grants from Health Canada for her research on ”Genetic Privacy and Information” and on “Assisting Research Ethics Boards in Ethical Deliberation”.

Mette Lebech

is originally from Denmark and has taught philosophy at the National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland, since 1988. She has written and lectured widely on various topics in bioethics, on the notion of human dignity, and on the philosophy of Edith Stein. She is a corresponding member of the Pontifical Academy for Life.

Myles N. Sheehan, SJ

is the Ralph P. Leischner Professor of Medical Education and Director of the Ralph P. Leischner, Jr. Institute for Medical Education, as well as the Senior Associate Dean for Educational Programs at Loyola University’s Stritch School of Medicine in Chicago, U.S.A. He entered the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in 1985 and was ordained a priest in 1994. He has written and lectured on the care of the older person, end-of-life and palliative care, and is a co-editor of Healing as Vocation: A Medical Professionalism Primer (2006).

Carol Taylor is a founding member and the Director of the Center for

Clinical Bioethics, a senior research scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, and an associate professor of nursing at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. She has gained much experience in caring for chronically and critically ill patients and their families. She lectures and writes on various issues in health care ethics and is co-editor of Health and Human Flourishing (2006).

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