Profile photo Hans van Delden

Hans van Delden

Full Professor

Strategic program(s):

Biography

Johannes (Hans) van Delden is full professor of medical ethics at the University Medical Center of Utrecht University, the Netherlands and director of education of the same institute. There he also leads the project on patient and public participation for the hospital and for the academic research in the UMC Utrecht. He has worked for many years as a practicing nursing home physician. He has published widely on the practice and ethics of end-of-life decisions, research ethics, and ethical issues in the care for the elderly. He has built a strong research team which has created a strong track record in the ethics of end-of-life decisions, research ethics, and ethics of biomedical innovation. He is the chair of the International Bioethics Committee of UNESCO. He has served as the president of the Council of International Organisations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS), and as the chair of the workgroup for the revision of the CIOMS ethical guidelines for biomedical research.

Research groups

Bioethics & health humanities

Research aim

The Department of Bioethics & Health Humanities is an interdisciplinary research department. Our expertise spans fields such as bioethics, health law, history of medicine, narrative medicine, health research governance, and patient involvement.

Go to group

Recent publications

Timing of advance care planning in patients with advanced cancer Tingting Zhu, Judith AC Rietjens, Johannes J.M. van Delden, Luc Deliens, Agnes van der Heide, Anna Thit Johnsen, Francesca Ingravallo, Urška Lunder, Nancy J. Preston, Jane Seymour, Ida J. Korfage
Patient Education and Counseling, 2025, vol. 136
Views and opinions of the general public about the reimbursement of expensive medicines in the Netherlands Féline E V Scheijmans, Roosmarijn van der Wal, Margot L Zomers, Johannes J M van Delden, W Ludo van der Pol, Ghislaine J M W van Thiel
PLoS ONE, 2025, vol. 20
The Dutch practice of euthanasia and assisted suicide in patients suffering from psychiatric disorders Fenne Bosma, Kelly Romana Mink, Johannes Jozef Marten van Delden, Agnes van der Heide, Suzanne van de Vathorst, Ghislaine Jose Madeleine Wilhelmien van Thiel
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2024, vol. 15
Coping Strategies of Patients With Advanced Lung or Colorectal Cancer Over Time K. L. Luu, P. Mager, D. Nieboer, F. E. Witkamp, L. J. Jabbarian, S. Payne, M. Groenvold, K. Pollock, G. Miccinesi, L. Deliens, J. J.M. van Delden, A. van der Heide, I. J. Korfage, J. A.C. Rietjens,
Psycho-oncology, 2024, vol. 33
Commentary Trijntje M Scheeres-Feitsma, Petruschka Schaafsma, Jenny T van der Steen, Johannes J M van Delden
Alzheimer's and Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment and Disease Monitoring, 2024, vol. 16
Balancing ethical norms and duties for the introduction of new medicines through conditional marketing authorization Mariia V. Maksimova, Ghislaine J.M.W. van Thiel, Yke Tromp, Rosan Lechner, Johannes J.M. van Delden, Lourens T. Bloem
Frontiers in medicine, 2024, vol. 11

Fellowships & Awards

1993                           Proefschrift bekroond met de C van der Meer-prijs

                                   voor medische ethiek

2007                           Talma Eijkman prijs voor docent van het jaar

2009                           ASB visiting professor University of Auckland (NZ)

2015                           Nominatie UU docent van het jaar

External positions

adjunct professor afdeling geriatrie - begeleiding en uitvoering van wetenschappelijk onderzoek - Southern Dansk University

co-director WHO collaborating center for ethics - werken aan ethiek programma WHO - WHO

ethics advisor - adviseren omtrent ethiek van project - IMI project PIONEER

Ethics advisor IMI project - ethische adviezen geven - IMI project T2Evolve

lid editorial board - reviewen van drafts - tijdschrift Bioethics