Current members - as of October 2025

Prof. Dr. med. Bernhard M. W. Schmidt (Chairman of the Ethics Committee)
Senior Physician, Clinical Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, MHH

Prof. Dr. med. Samir Sarikouch (Deputy Chairman of the Ethics Committee)
Head of Clinical Research, Clinical Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, MHH

Dr. med. Jessica Kaufeld
Managing Director of the Ethics Committee, MHH

Prof. Dr. med. Anibh Martin Das
Head of Pediatric Metabolic Medicine, Clinical Department of Paediatric Kidney, Liver and Metabolic Diseases, MHH

Dr. med. Linda Feldbrügge
Clinical Department of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, MHH

Dr. med. Justus Graubner
General practitioner

Prof. Dr. med. Armin Koch
Head of the Institute of Biometry, MHH

Dr. rer. nat. Petra Lachmann
Laywoman

Xiaofei Liu
Institute of Biometry, MHH

Prof. Dr. med. Dr. phil. Sabine Salloch
Head of the Institute of History, Ethics and Philosophy of Medicine, MHH

Prof. Dr. med. Dirk O. Stichtenoth
Director of the Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, MHH

Dipl.-Ing. Jörg Viering
Head of the Central Research Workshops, MHH

Dr. jur. Caterina Wehage
Specialist lawyer for medical law

Prof. Dr. med. Dipl.-Phys. Thomas Werncke
Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology

Deputies

Julia Buchinski
Lawyer

PD Dr. med. Katja Deterding
Senior Physician Clinical Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endocrinology, MHH

Dr. Theodor Framke
Institute of Biometry, MHH

Dr. Matthias Katzer

Institute of History, Ethics and Philosophy of Medicine, MHH

Prof. Dr. med. Markus A. Kuczyk
Director of the Clinical Department of Urology and Urological Oncology, MHH

Jana Marquardt
Lawyer

Dr. phil. Marcel Mertz
Institute of History, Ethics and Philosophy of Medicine, MHH

Dr. med. Christoph Schröder
Deputy Head of Institute, Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, MHH