Zoë Fritz is an Associate Professor in Medical Ethics and Ageing based in THIS Institute and a Consultant Physician in Acute Medicine at Addenbrooke’s Hospital. Her research is focused on identifying areas of clinical practice that raise ethical questions and applying rigorous empirical and ethical analysis to explore the issues and find effective solutions. Zoë was previously a Wellcome fellow in Society and Ethics.
Examples of her work include developing and assessing a new approach to Resuscitation decisions (www.respectprocess.org.uk – she chairs the ReSPECT subcommittee for RCUK); working on the relationship between trust, questioning and the issue of “Too Much Medicine’; and considering the legal, ethical and empirical consequences of communicating uncertainty in diagnosis.
