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Zoë Fritz is Associate Professor of Medical Ethics and Ageing and a Consultant Physician in Acute Medicine at Cambridge University Hospital.  Her research is focused on identifying areas of clinical practice that raise ethical questions and applying rigorous empirical and ethical analysis to explore the issues and find effective solutions. Her work is at the interface between medicine, the humanities and law.
Examples of her work include developing and assessing a new approach to Resuscitation decisions (www.respectprocess.org.uk  – she chairs the ReSPECT subcommittee for RCUK); researching how clinicians make decisions to refer and admit patients to ICU; working with colleagues in the faculty of  philosophy  on the relationship between trust, questioning and the issue of “Too Much Medicine’; and exploring ethical issues in transplantation and consent. Her current interdisciplinary projects explores the legal, ethical and empirical consequences of communicating uncertainty in diagnosis, and examining issues around organ transplantation.