Pranab Rudra, M. Sc.

Research associate

Institute for Ethics, History and Philosophy of Medicine

OE 5450

Hannover Medical School
Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1
D-30625 Hannover
Phone: +49 511-532-80211

E-mail: pranab.rudra@stud.mh-hannover.de

 

Main research areas:

  • Digitalization of medicine / Dealing with incidental findings
  • Research ethics with a focus on the assessment of risks and burdens in the evaluation of clinical studies by Ethics Committees
  • Ethical aspects of the physician-patient relationship
  • Neuroethics
  • Animal ethics

Academic career:

since 10/2024
Doctoral studies
Title: LLM and informed consent
Institute for Ethics, History and Philosophy of Medicine, Hannover Medical School

11/2023 - 12/2024
Research associate
Institute for Ethics, History and Philosophy of Medicine, Hannover Medical School

04/2020 - 12/2022
Research associate
Section Translational Medical Ethics, Heidelberg University Hospital

02/2018 - 07/2019
Research Associate
Institute for History, Theory and Ethics of Medicine, University of Ulm

04/2017 - 08/2017
Research associate
Medical Clinical Department and Polyclinic II, LMU Klinikum

02/2016
Study of Molecular Medicine (Master of Science)
University of Ulm

01/2013 - 08/2013
Research assistant
University Medical Center Freiburg

06/2012
Study of Microbiology (Bachelor of Science)
North South University, Bangladesh

 

Publications

Journal articles (peer-reviewed)

  1. Rudra, P., Balke, W.-T., Kacprowski, T., Ursin, F., & Salloch, S. (2025). Large language models for surgical informed consent: an ethical perspective on simulated empathy. Journal of Medical Ethics. https://doi:10.1136/jme-2024-110652
  2. Buhr, E., Önder, O., Rudra, P., & Ursin, F. (2025). Trust and Artificial Intelligence in the Doctor-Patient-Relationship: epistemological preconditions and reliability gaps. Ethics and Information Technology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-025-09867-w
  3. Rudra, P., & Ursin, F. (2024). Optimizing the PHERCC Matrix for Risk Communication: Integrating Action-Guiding Models for Enhanced Accessibility and Applicability. The American Journal of Bioethics. https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2024.2308151 
  4. Rudra, P., Kaufmann, E., Winkler, E., & Schickhardt, C. (2021). Re-registration of additional information ("incidental findings") from secondary analysis of patient data in the medical informatics initiative. German Medical Science GMS Publishing House. https://doi.org/10.3205/21GMDS119
  5. Rudra, P., & Lenk, C. (2020). Process of risk assessment by research ethics committees: foundations, shortcomings and open questions. Journal of Medical Ethics, medethics-2019-105595. https://doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2019-105595
  6. Afrad, M. H., Matthijnssens, J., Afroz, S. F., Rudra, P., Nahar, L., Rahman, R., Hossain, M. E., Rahman, S. R., Azim, T., & Rahman, M. (2014). Differences in lineage replacement dynamics of G1 and G2 rotavirus strains versus G9 strain over a period of 22 years in Bangladesh. Infection, Genetics and Evolution: Journal of Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genetics in Infectious Diseases, 28, 214-222. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.meegid.2014.10.002

Articles in edited volumes (peer-reviewed)

  1. Rudra, P. (2021). Physician-patient relationship models in Bangladesh and Germany. In Migration and Medicine (pp. 87-104). Verlag Karl Alber. https://doi.org/10.5771/9783495823880-87
  2. Rudra, P. (2018). Ethical underpinning and implications of "nootropic" concept. Acta Universitatis Lodziensis, 32, 31-45. https://doi.org/10.18778/0208-6107.32.03

 

Lectures

International lectures

  1. Rudra, P. AI-supported informed consent chatbots. Annual Conference of the Academy for Ethics in Medicine, 26.09.2024 (German)
  2. Rudra, P. LLMs for patient information. DFG-Network – Digital Bioethics, 18.09.2024
  3. Rudra, P. Leveraging AI-Based Chatbots to Enhance Patient Consent in Healthcare: A Digital Ethical Perspective. EACME 2024 Annual Conference, 12.09.2024
  4. Rudra, P. Machine learning to support informed consent in clinical studies - an ethical analysis. ESPMH Conference, 21.08.2024
  5. Rudra, P. Patient-Physician Relationship Models in Bangladesh and Germany. Migration as a challenge for medicine. Ethical, legal and social aspects in a country comparison of Germany, Croatia and Austria. University of Ulm, Germany, 15.03.2019. (English)
  6. Rudra, P. Ethical Underpinning and Implications of "Nootropic" Concept. Human Enhancement - Annual Conference, University of Łódź, Poland, 06.06.2018. (English)
    National presentations
  7. Rudra, P. Feedback on additional information (“chance findings”) from the secondary analysis of patient data in the medical informatics initiative. GMDS (German Society for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology), University of Heidelberg, Germany, 30.09.2021. (German)