Medizinische Hochschule Hannover : Dr. Frank Ursin

PD Dr. phil. Frank Ursin

Research associate

Institute for Ethics, History and Philosophy of Medicine

OE 5450

Hannover Medical School
Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1
D-30625 Hannover
Tel.: +49 511-532-42722 or -4278 (office)

PD Dr. phil. Frank Ursin's research focuses on the ethics and theory of digitalization in medicine, particularly AI and data ethics, as well as human-machine interaction. In October 2025, Ursin received the venia legendi (habilitation) for ethics, history, and theory of medicine from Hannover Medical School with a thesis on “Ethical challenges of diagnostics with artificial intelligence: informed consent and explicability in clinical application.” He has been working at the Institute for Ethics, History and Philosophy of Medicine at Hannover Medical School since October 2021. Prior to that, he had been a research associate at the Institute for the History, Theory, and Ethics of Medicine at the University of Ulm since 2016. In addition to working on digital bioethics issues, he has also conducted research on the history of medicine. Chronologically, his historical work spans the period from antiquity through the early modern period to the 20th century. He completed his PhD in 2016 at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg with a thesis on ancient history, which was funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation with a doctoral scholarship. Ursin studied Ancient History, Journalism and Philosophy (2005-2011) and Protestant Theology (2014-2016) at Leipzig University.

Frank Ursin is a member of various professional associations, scientific networks, and committees: Ethics Committee of the MHH in the Subcommittee for clinical trials on pharmaceutical drugs ("AMG studies", since 2025), DFG Network “Digital Bioethics” (2023-2026), Academy for Ethics in Medicine (AEM, since 2021) and co-coordinator of the Working Group on Health and Digitalization in the AEM (since 2022), Fachverband Medizingeschichte (since 2016) and Mommsen-Gesellschaft (professional association of ancient historians in Germany, since 2012).