| Solomon Benatar, MBChB, PhD, is Professor of Medicine at the University of Cape Town and Director
of the UCT Bioethics Center. He was Professor and Chairman of the University of Cape Town's
Department of Internal Medicine and Chief Physician at Groote Schuur Hospital from 1980-1999. He is the Founding Director
of the University of Cape Town's Bioethics Centre (1992-), Visiting Professor of Medical Ethics at University College
London Medical School (1997-), Visiting Professor in Public Health Sciences and Medicine at the University if Toronto
(2000-), President of the International Association of Bioethics, and Chairman of the South African National Research Ethics
Committee . After graduating from the University of Cape Town in 1965 he trained in Anaesthetics and in Medicine in Cape Town
and London. His academic interests include respiratory medicine, academic freedom, medical ethics and the humanities in
medicine, human rights, health care systems, health economics and global health - on which topics he has published over
250 journal articles and book chapters.
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He is a corresponding member of the US National Academy of Sciences' Committee on Human
Rights, and has been a member of several multidisciplinary, international research groups. During the 1994/95 academic
year he was a Fellow in the Program in Ethics and the Professions at Harvard University and Visiting Professor at Harvard
Medical School. He has been an invited lecturer at many medical schools and health organisations in South Africa, the USA,
Canada, UK, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Israel, Jamaica, Kenya, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Taiwan and Hong Kong. He has recently
been an advisor to UNAIDS in Geneva and to Medecins Sans Frontieres in Holland. He is also an ethics consultant to the HIV
Prevention Trials Network (USA). He is an elected Foreign Member of the US National Acadamy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine
and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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