Ethical and Legal Issues in Palliative Medicine

Come join us for our third session of our 2025 Webinar Series! This time our topic will be on ‘Ethical and Legal Issues in Palliative Medicine’ held on 12 August 2025, 2:30-4:00 pm (Singapore time). It will be a live 1.5 hour session on Zoom with a Q&A segment at the end with the speakers.

For this session, we are honoured to have Prof Mieko Ogino (International University of Health and Welfare Chiba, Japan), Prof Lalit Kumar Radha Krishna (National Cancer Centre Singapore, Singapore) and Dr Daniel Fu-Chang Tsai (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) as our speakers. The session will be moderated by Assoc Prof Sujeong Kim (The Catholic University of Korea).

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Speaker Bio

Prof Mieko Ogino

Professor Mieko Ogino MD,PhD,MMA is board certified Neurologist and board certified home care physician. She graduated from Kitasato University 1985 and she had been a post-doctoral researching fellow at Colombia University in US in 4 years and PhD degree awarded from Kitasato University. She had experienced many end-stage ALS patients, but in 2005, opioids were only used for cancer patients, and the National Health Insurance did not cover opioids for ALS patients. She tried to change that rule and finally succeeded in 2011. She also had deep concern about palliative care for non-cancer patients because she well understood the situation of aged society of Japan from the knowledge as the Master of Medical Administration which awarded from Tokyo Medical and Dental University 2008. She also finished the course of Center for Biomedical Ethics and Law (CBEL) in Tokyo university 2005 and became specialist of clinical ethics. She is the opinion leader about palliative care for non-cancer patients, especially neurological diseases. She has hosted palliative care training sessions for neurological disorders for over a decade. She is a director of various academic societies and also a member of several national associations.

Prof Lalit Kumar Radha Krishna

Prof Lalit Krishna is a Senior Consultant at the Division of Supportive and Palliative Care, National Cancer Centre Singapore. He holds a masters in Medical Ethics, a masters in Medical Education, a MD in Palliative Medicine, a PhD in Medical Ethics, and a PhD in Medical Education.

Lalit also holds the appointments of Professor at Duke-NUS Medical School Singapore, and an adjunct Professor at Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. He is the chairman of the Clinical Ethics Committee and the Singapore Hospice Council Ethics team.

Dr Daniel Fu-Chang Tsai

Daniel Fu-Chang Tsai is a family physician and bioethicist. He graduated from the National Taiwan University College of Medicine (NTUCM) in 1989 and earned his PhD in bioethics from the University of Manchester, U.K. in 1999. He is the founding professor of the Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Bioethics, a joint professor in the Department of Family Medicine and the Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, and the past Director of the Department of Social Medicine at the NTUCM. He is an attending physician in the Department of Medical Research, the founding Director of the Ethics Center, the chairman of the Research Ethics Committee, and the executive secretary of the Clinical Ethics Committee at National Taiwan University Hospital. He is also the Director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics at National Taiwan University, the past Vice President of the International Association of Bioethics, and the past President of the Taiwan Association of Institutional Review Boards. He is a member of the Merk Ethics Advisory Panel. He has led many government-commissioned projects by the Ministry of Health & Welfare, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Science & Technology, and the National Health Research Institute. He has publications in the Journal of Medical Ethics, Hastings Center Report, American Journal of Bioethics, Asian Bioethics Review… etc., and has published books on subjects of Biomedical Research Ethics, Genetic Testing Ethics, Informed Consent, Clinical Ethics Committee, Case-Analysis in Medical Ethics, Big Data Research Ethics & Law, and Family Medicine, and more than 230 papers published in Chinese & English journals, and 40 book chapters. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Medical Ethics, Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, Asian Bioethics Review, and Formosa Journal of Medicine. He was awarded Honorary Membership by the UNESCO Chair of Bioethics in 2015 and elected Vice President of the International Association of Bioethics in 2016, the Goldman-Berland Lectureship in Palliative Medicine in 2019, and the Hastings Center Fellow in 2021. His special research interests include cross-cultural bioethics, genetic ethics, transplantation ethics, clinical ethics and ethics consultation, research ethics, and medical ethics education.

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