Neyyire Yasemin Yalım
Neyyire Yasemin Yalım is a medical doctor with a PhD in medical ethics and history. She spent 2001-2002 academic year as a postdoctoral fellow in "bioethics" at the University of Minnesota Bioethics Center. She worked as a full professor in Ankara University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medical History and Ethics. She served as the Vice Rector of Ankara University between 2008-2012 and as the Head of the Department between 2015-2019.
Her subjects of interest are; methodology of ethics, ethical issues related to the end of life, research and publication ethics (science ethics), ethical counseling and ethical consultation, psychiatric ethics and ethical dimensions of medical errors and patient safety. Recently she is working on the issues of agricultural and food ethics.
She the founding member of the Turkish Bioethics Association and serving as the Chairperson of the Board of Directors. She is also the Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed scientific journal of the Association, namely Turkish Journal of Bioethics - TJOB. She is the founding member and Secretary General of the Agricultural and Food Ethics Association of Turkey. She is the member of the Turkish Philosophical Society’s Bioethics Unit. Besides more than 300 publications in Turkish and foreign languages, Yalım published the first Turkish Dictionary of Bioethics (with Harun Tepe, Nüket Büken and Deniz Kucur).