Nicolas Foureur is a physician, a dermatologist by training, who specializes in sexual health. He has also worked in geriatric care, with a focus on and wounds in the elderly.
He joined the Clinical ethics center (AP-HP – Paris) multidisciplinary group in 2003 and has worked as a clinical ethics consultant since 2006. He now directs the Center, after its founder, Véronique Fournier retired.
His interests in clinical ethics include aging (medicalization, institutionalization, dependency, empowerment), psychiatry (autonomy, access to health care), sexual health (HIV prevention) and gender issues (intersexes, young transgender).
He also works on the methodology of the clinical ethics consultation, and he is the coordinator of a national network devoted to promoting, and reflecting about, consultation services. He is also a member of the European Clinical Ethics Network, and he is active in promoting international exchanges about the practice of clinical ethics consultation, as well as its underlying assumptions. He is particularly focused on ways clinical ethics consultation will help “patients’ voice” emerge and be respected.
He is in charge of training in clinical ethics in order to promote pluridisciplinary work and to offer health care professionals the opportunity to get acquainted with clinical ethics basics.
