Marie-Christine Fritzsche B.A., Approved Physician

Research fellow

Marie-Christine Fritzsche is a research fellow at the Institute of History and Ethics of Medicine at the Technical University of Munich. In the summer semester of 2024, she was an academic visitor at the University of Oxford (ETHOX Centre).

Her research interests lie in the areas of bioethics, digital ethics, social and political philosophy, aesthetics, and epistemology. Her current research focuses on ethical aspects of data-driven and AI technologies in healthcare, embedded ethics, and (preventive) clinical ethics consultation. She combines philosophical analyses with empirical research methods.

Currently, she is working in two European research consortia and she is co-lead of the Ethics Work Package of one of these interdisciplinary EU projects. In these contexts, she conducts ethical, conceptual, and empirical analyses on the use of data-driven biomarkers and AI risk scores in medical research and clinical application. In several projects, she has pursued the interdisciplinary and practice-oriented approach of Embedded Ethics (EE), which she further develops methodologically together with colleagues in the Embedded Ethics Hub of the Institute. She is a certified clinical ethics consultant in healthcare (AEM).

She is a fully licensed physician and completed her dual studies in medicine as well as philosophy and economics at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, University of Paris Sud XI (University of Paris Saclay), and University of Paris-Sorbonne IV. During this time, she gained practical experience in the Department of Ethics and Social Determinants at the World Health Organisation and received her clinical training at the University Hospital Freiburg, St. George's University London, and University Hospital Zurich.

During her studies, she was supported by scholarships from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation and the German Academic Exchange Service. For her medical ethics research, she received a residency from the Brocher Foundation near Geneva and the Collaboration Award from the European Association of Centers for Medical Ethics together with researchers from Switzerland and Germany.

She worked as a strategic management consultant for the Boston Consulting Group in various areas, including the public sector and healthcare.