Eike-Henner Kluge
PhD Eike-Henner Kluge | |
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| Nationality | Canadian German |
| Awards | Royal Society of Canada, Abbyann Lynch Medal |
| Education | |
| Alma mater | University of Calgary University of Michigan |
| Philosophical work | |
| Main interests | Biomedical (Medical Ethics) and information ethics, topics in the history of philosophy. |
Eike-Henner Kluge FRSC is the first medical ethics expert witness recognized by Canadian courts. Dr. Kluge has acted as an expert witness in Alberta, British Columbia, and Ontario. He is known for his work on contentious medical ethics issue such as abortion and the ethics of deliberate death in addition to privacy and medical informatics. He established and was the first director of the Canadian Medical Association Department of Ethics and Legal Affairs. Dr. Kluge is the author of the International Medical Informatics Association's code of ethics and their ethics handbook. Additionally, he is a fellow in the Royal Society of Canada. In 2022 he acted as an ethics consultant to the British Columbia Ministry of Mental Health and Addiction, and wrote a report Ethics Framework for the Opioid Overdose Crisis Response advising them that it would be ethically appropriate to implement a program that would enable addicted persons to access pharmaceuticals in place of toxic street drugs.