PD Dr. Stuart McLennan

Director of Research

Stuart McLennan is a Senior Research Associate at the Institute for the History and Ethics of Medicine (IGEM) at the Technical University of Munich (TUM).

His research tends to be highly interdisciplinary and practice-oriented, using the empirical bioethics approach that integrates ethical, legal, and policy analysis with empirical methods. His general research focus is on ethical and regulatory issues related to learning health systems, particularly data science and AI in health care, patient safety and quality improvement, and clinical research. He is also deeply involved in the development of the new interdisciplinary approach of the embedded ethics (EE) involved in integrating ethical considerations into AI development.

To date, he has successfully led nine funded research projects with third-party funding of around EUR 451,000. His research has been published in leading medical ethics and health journals. He has developed a comprehensive German and English-language teaching program in medical ethics and medical humanities for medical students in Germany, Switzerland and Austria.

Stuart McLennan holds a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy (with a focus on ethics and moral philosophy), a Master's degree in Bioethics and Health Law (with distinction), a PhD in Biomedical Ethics (with Summa Cum Laude), and in December 2020 he received his Habilitation and Venia docendi in Biomedical Ethics from the Medical Faculty of the University of Basel. The rehabilitation procedure at the Medical Faculty of TUM was successfully completed in fall 2021.

  • Learning health systems
  • Ethics of medical AI
  • Embedded Ethics
  • Patient safety and quality improvement
  • Clinical research
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