YESIM ISIL ULMAN (CV): Full professor of medical history and ethics at Acibadem University School of Medicine, the Department Chair of Medical History and Ethics (Istanbul Turkey). The main interests of her studies are the modernization in medicine; history of ethics; issues of bioethics and ethical aspects of new medical technologies, animal experiments, research and publication ethics, health law. She originally graduated from the Faculty of Humanities of Istanbul University (1982), and completed MA on the analysis of scientific journal (Mecmua-i Fünun) in the Faculty of Political Sciences of Istanbul University (1986). She obtained MSc (1994) and deserved PhD degree (1999) in Istanbul University School of Medicine by her theses on the history of medical modernization in Turkey focused on the primary sources published in the 19th century. Between 1990-1995 she was lecturer at Istanbul University School of Medicine; taught history of medicine and ethics at the English Section of the Cerrahpasa School of Medicine from 1995 to 2009 where she became associate professor in 2005. She served as the scientific secretary of the International Congress of History of Medicine (2002); the associate editor of New History of Medicine Studies (1997-2006); the editor of the Life and Works of Salih Zeki Bey, A Senior Mathematician by Prof. Celal Saraç (2001). She has been associate researcher of Institut Français des Etudes Anatoliennes in Istanbul where she co-edited Perilous Modernity in the Ottoman Empire with Prof. Dr. Anne Marie Moulin (2010). She served as member and secretary general, later on, of the Ethics Committee of Istanbul Chamber of Physicians between 2006-2012 and contributed to the activities of the coordinated platform of medical specialty societies under the Turkish Medical Association (2008-2011). She served as the President of the Turkish Bioethics Association, for two successive periods, between 2007-2009 and 2009-2012, and participated in many projects, in the same capacity, such as the scientific organization of local and international congresses, publication of proceedings, reports and e-bulletins of TBA, declaration of statements of TBA on the main issues of bioethics and healthcare. On behalf of the Turkish Bioethics Association, she was the co-president and local organizer of the European Association of Centres of Medical Ethics (EACME) 2011 Conference held in Istanbul. She passed to Acibadem University School of Medicine in 2009 and became professor of medical history and ethics on June 27, 2013. She coordinated and took part in the Training Programme of Health Law Certificate for Acibadem University ASEGEM, thrice in 2010, 2014. She served as the vicechair of the University Research Ethics Committee (2009-2014). She is member of Hospital Ethics Committee, and ACU Animal Experimenation ethics Committee. She is at the editorial board of Acibadem University Journal of Health Sciences. She was assigned to establish the Turkey Working Group of the Cambridge Consortium of Bioethics Education in 2013. She is the Coordinator of Bioethics Master of Science Programme in Acibadem University. She was assigned to Chief of the ACU Institute of Social Sciences on September 23rd, 2014. She speaks English and French, and is member of Société International de l Histoire et Médecine (SIHM), European Association of Philosophy of Medicine and Healthcare (ESPMH), the Turkish Bioethics Association, the Turkish Society of History of Medicine, Contact Information: Prof. Dr. Yesim Isil Ulman Acibadem University School of Medicine Dept. of Medical History and Ethics (Chair) Istanbul-Turkey / e-mail: yesimul@yahoo.com
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Papers 1. Yildirim V, Ulman YI, A look at the ottoman social and medical modernization through the life of Dr. Servicen, Revue Bulgare d Histoire, 2015 (forthcoming). 2. Ulman YI, Cakar T, Yildiz G, Ethical Issues in Neuromarketing, Science and Engineering Ethics, August 2014, DOI10.1007/s11948-014-9581-5, Online ISSN 1471-5546 3. Izgi C, Ulman YI, Klinik Araştırmalar Yönetmeliği ne Bakış, Acıbadem Üniversitesi Sağlık Bilimleri Dergisi, 2013;4(4):161-167. 4. Agirbasli D, Ulman YI, Coronary artery disease from a perspective of genomic risk score, ethical approaches and suggestions, Anadolu Kardiyol Derg. 2012 Mar;12(2):171-7. 5. Ulman YI, Ulus IH, Ozpinar A, Genc SV, Preliminary Notes for Ethical Conduct of Animal Experimentation with Special Reference to Studies in Turkey Kafkas Univ Vet Fak Derg 2011; 17(6):1051-1056. 6. Civaner M, Ulman YI, Herşey Çocuk İçin, Türk Pediatri Arşivi, (Turk Arch Ped) Aralık 2009; 44: 112-4. 7. Dinc G, Ulman YI, The Introduction of Variolation à la Turca to the West and by Lady Mary Montagu and Turkey s contribution to this, Vaccine, 25(2007) 4261-4265. 8. Ulman YI, Les premiers pas de l anesthesie au chloroforme en Turquie dans l Empire Ottoman. Annales Françaises d Anésthesie et de Réanimation, Nantes-France, 24;4:377-382, Elsevier 2005. 9. Ulman YI, Livadas G, Yildirim N, The Pioneering Steps of Radiology in Turkey (1987-1923) European Journal of Radiology, 55;3:306-310, Elsevier 2005. 10. Yıldırım N, Ulman YI, A Review of Medical History and Ethics Education at the Istanbul University. Bulgarian Historical Review-Revue Bulgare d Histoire 2005;(3-4):119-126. 11. Ulman YI, "Portraits of Italians in health affairs in 19th century Istanbul: Dr. Castaldi, Pharmacist A. Calleja, Midwife Messani", in: Mirella Galletti (editor), Medici, missionari, musicisti militari italiani attivi in Persia, Impero Ottomano ed Egitto, Quaderni di Oriente Moderno Roma, Istituto per l'oriente C.A. Nallino, 2008; LXXXVIII, No. 6:135-149. Papers and Presentations: 1. Ulman YI. "First Surgical Use of Chloroform in the Turkish-Ottoman History of Medicine", Book of Proceedings of the 36 th International Congress on the History of Medicine (Tunis- Carthage 6-11 September 1998). 1998: 87-94. 2. Ulman YI. Dr. Esad Feyzi, as a Pioneer of Clinical and Military Radiology, 37th International Congress on the History of Medicine Proceedings (ed: Burns, O Neill, Albou, Rigau-Perez). Texas-USA: 2000: 354-358. 3. Yıldırım N, Ulman YI. The Historical Development of the Education of Medical History and Deontology-Ethics at Istanbul University. 37th International Congress on the History of Medicine Proceedings (ed: Burns, O Neill, Albou, Rigau-Perez). Texas-USA: 2000:237-243. 4. Ulman YI. A 163 Years Old Health Institution in Artigiana, International Meeting on the History of Medicine, Lisbon, Portugal, 2001:208-213. 5. Ulman YI. The Medical Journal of the Imperial Medical School: Gazette Médicale de Constantinople (1849-1852), International Meeting on the History of Medicine, (Lisbon, Portugal, 10-13 October 2001). 2001:234-236 (En iyi poster ödülü)
6. Ulman YI. Strano A: Ethics in Medical Practice in view of Anatolian History of Medicine. 10th Biennial Allergy Abroad 02, Continuing Medical Education Schedule in cooperation with Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine-Istanbul Medical School. İstanbul, 21 September 2002. (not printed) 7. Hatemi H, Ulman YI. Was Lokman Hekim Alcmeion, Proceedings of the 38th International Congress of the History of Medicine 1-6 September 2002, editors: Sarı N, A.H.Bayat, Y.I.Ulman, M. Işın, vol 1, Ankara TTK yay., 2005: 339-340. 8. Ulman YI. Dr. Millingen s Work on Some Ophtalmological Cases in Istanbul. 38th International Congress on the History of Medicine, (Istanbul,1-6 September 2002). Abstracts Book. Istanbul: 2002: 41. 9. Ulman YI, Çağatay P, Merdanoğulları, M (et al): Donor Profile At Blood Banking in view of Medical Ethics (Tendencies, Rights, Information), VIII. European Congress of the International Society of Blood Transfusion, oral presentation, Istanbul, 3-7 May 2003, Abstracts Book, Istanbul, 2003:30. 10. Tunaci A, Yıldırım N, Ulman YI et al: Origin of military radiology: First use of X-rays in the Ottoman Empire. European Radiology ECR 2004/Final Programme/Supplement 2 to Volume 14/ Februry 2004. European Congress of Radiology/March 5-9/ Vienna/Autria, Scientific and educational exhibits, C-898. (Elektronik Poster). 11. Ulman YI. Methodology and Sources in Medical History studies in Turkey concerning 19th century, International Seminar on Writing locally the history of modern sciences, Centre d Etudes et de Documentation Economiques Juridiques et Sociales (CEDEJ) Cairo - Egypt, 3-5 December 2005. (article in revision) 12. Yıldırım N, Ulman YI. Great Cholera Epidemic of Istanbul in 1865, Proceedings of the 40th International Congress on the History of Medicine, Budapest-Hungary, August 26-30th, 2006;1: 269-272. 13. Ulman YI. The Imperial School of Medicine of Galatasaray, as an example of Medical Modernization in Turkey, Proceedings of the 40th International Congress on the History of Medicine, Budapest-Hungary, August 26-30th, 2006; 2:453-455. 14. Ulman YI. A Pioneering Book of Pediatrics on Prematural Care in Turkey during the Ottoman Empire, Proceedings of the 40th International Congress on the History of Medicine, Budapest-Hungary, August 26-30th, 2006; 1:259-260. (Poster bildiri). 15. Dinç G, Ulman YI. Introduction of the Variolation à la Turca to the West by Lady Mary Montagu, 40th International Congress on the History of Medicine, Budapest-Hungary, August 26-30th, 2006; 1: 233-234. (Poster bildiri). 16. Ulman YI. Italian-Turkish (Ottoman) Medical Interactions, Dr.Vuccino Revisited, IV. International Meeting on the History of Medicine, Toscana-Italy 21-23 October 2007. 17. Ulman YI, Ulman C, History of an Airborne Disease, Tuberculosis in Turkey (19-20.centuries), IV. International Meeting on the History of Medicine, Toscana-Italy 21-23 October 2007 (En iyi poster ödülü). 18. Ulman YI. The Turkish Bioethics Association, with Future Vision in Historical Perspective, EACME (European Association of the Centres of Medical Ethics) Newsletter, Number 21, Netherlands, April 2009: 6-9. 19. Civaner M, Ulman YI, Balcıoğlu H, Vatansever K. Medical students opinions about commodification of healthcare services and the alteration during medical education, EACME Annual Meeting, Venice, Italy., Sept 10-11, 2009.
20. Ulman YI. Towards a Mediterranean Bioethics, Keynote Lecture, EACME CONFERENCE 2009, Bioethics, Mediterranean, Turkey s Experience, Venice (Italy), "Polo Didattico San Basilio" - University of Venice Dorsoduro, September 10-11, 2009. 21. Cokar M, Ulman YI, Bakirci N. "Human Trafficking in view of medical ethics related to sex work: a survey on the perception and attitude of physicians", European Association of the Centres of Medical Ethics Conference 2010, Oral Presentation, Book of Abstracts, Oslo- Norway, p.83. 22. Onal G, Ulman YI, Topsever P. "A Critical Evaluation of Patient Rights Guide for Medical Specialty Societies in Turkey", European Association of the Centres of Medical Ethics Conference 2010, Poster Presentation, Book of Abstracts, Oslo-Norway, pp.100-101. (Poster) 23. Ulman YI, Ulus IH, Ozpinar A, Genc, SV. Some Preliminary Notes fort he Ethical Conduct of Animal Experimentation, XXXIX. International Congress of the World Association for the History of Veterinary Medicine and III. National Symposium of the Turkish Association for the History of Veterinary Medicine and Professional Ethics, Poster Presentation, Abstract Book, Antalya- Turkey, 20-23 September 2010, p. 92. (Poster). 24. Ulman, YI. Future Vision in Historical Perspective: Introducing the Turkish Bioethics Association, Workshop (Proceedings) Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights: Social Responsibility and Health, Bioethics Committee Turkish National Commission for UNESCO, Istanbul 25 April 2011:111-123. (*This study is the revised and updated version of this source: YIUlman, Future Vision in Historical Perspective: Introducing the Turkish Bioethics Association, TBA, EACME Newsletter, No. 21, April 2009: 6-9. It was renewed and developed through the scientific activities of Turkish Bioethics Association between 2009-2011 based on the aims and scope of the Workshop, Universal Declaration on Bioethics And Human Rights Social Responsibility and Health Bioethics Committee, Turkish National Commission for UNESCO, 25-26 April 2011, Istanbul Turkey. Writer declares that this paper will be listed as the recurrent academic product of the former and remarked as ONE publication). 25. Ulman YI. "Clinical Ethics", 3rd NPHC Intensive Programme Course, Transcultural Competencies in Primary Health Care: Multimorbidity, Acıbadem Üniversitesi, Istanbul, 18-19 July 2011. 26. Bakirci N, Topsever P, Ulman YI, Cokar M, Medical ethics and humanities teaching: two years experience, European Association of Centres of Medical Ethics (EACME), 25th Annual Conference "Bioethics from a Cross-Cultural Perspective" in collaboration with the Turkish Bioethics Association, Istanbul, September 15-17, 2011, Book of Abstracts, p. 57. 27. Findik S, Cakar T, Ulman YI, Ethical concerns of neuromarketing, European Association of Centres of Medical Ethics (EACME), 25th Annual Conference "Bioethics from a Cross-Cultural Perspective" in collaboration with the Turkish Bioethics Association, Istanbul, September 15-17, 2011, Book of Abstracts, p. 267. 28. Ulman YI, Gurkan A, Tozun N. Ethics of Organ Transplantation revisited in view of recent face and composite tissue transplantations in Turkey, 26th Congress of the European Society on Philosophy of Medicine and Healthcare, Israel-Nazareth, 21-24 August 2012. 29. Bakırcı N, Topsever P, Ulman YI, Çokar M, Artvinli A, Profesyonellik Eğitiminde Etik ve İnsan Bilimleri, Türkiye Biyoetik Derneği 8. Sempozyumu: Sağlık Bilimlerinde Etik Eğitimi, Ankara 1-3 Kasım 2013, Özet Kitapçık, s. 17. 30. Ülman YI, Etik Yönüyle Tibbi Hata, Genel Tanım, Kavramlar, Eleştiriler, Öneriler, Sağlık Yönetiminde Güncel Konular Sempozyumu, Acıbadem Üniversitesi, 22 Kasım 2013.
31. Cambridge Biyoetik Eğitimi Türkiye Çalışma Grubu I. Çalıştayı, Biyoetik Nedir, Cambridge Bioethics Education Consortium Hakkında Bilgi, Ulman YI, Acıbadem Üniversitesi, İstanbul 12 Ekim 2013. 32. Cambridge Biyoetik Eğitimi Türkiye Çalışma Grubu I. Çalıştayı, Medical Ethics and Humanities Eğitim Programları, Yıldırım V, Ulman YI, Acıbadem Üniversitesi, İstanbul, 27 Aralık 2013 33. Ulman YI, Gurkan A, Tozun N. Ethics of Organ Transplantation revisited in view of recent face and composite tissue transplantations in Turkey, 26th Congress of the European Society on Philosophy of Medicine and Healthcare (ESPMH), Israel-Nazareth, 21-24 August 2012 (Oral Paper) 34. Ulman YI. Abortion on Demand, as a midcourse for ethical responsibility of governments, 28 th European Conference on Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care, Basel, Switzerland, August 14-17, 2013. (Oral Paper) 35. Artvinli F, Bakirci, N, Topsever P, Ulman YI, Istanbul History of Medicine Field Study: a Contribution of Medical History to the Ethics Education, Second International Conference on Education in Ethics, Ankara, Turkey, 21-23 May, 2014 36. Murat Aksu, Fatih Artvinli, Nadi Bakırcı, Tuna Çakar, Muhtar Çokar, Figen Demir, Volkan Kavas, Gülsüm Önal, Işıl Pakiş, Melike Şahiner, Pınar Topsever, İnci User, Yeşim Işıl Ülman, Kevser Vatansever, Vedat Yıldırım, Cambridge Bioethics Education Turkey Working Group, Second International Conference on Education in Ethics, Ankara, Turkey, 21-23 May, 2014. 37. Ulman YI, Regenerative Medicine and Bioethics: Ethical aspects of Stem Cell Research, Istanbul Technical University Molecular Biology and Genetics Student Congress, Maslak, Istanbul, 16 August 2014. 38. Ulman YI, Topsever P, Vatansever K, Artvinli F. Ethical reasoning in clinical years: ethics rounds, Acibadem university experience, 28th European Conference on Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care, Bioethics and Biopolitics, Debrecen (Hungary), 27 30 August, 2014, Oral Paper 39. Ulman YI, Ethics Rounds, Maslak Acibadem Hospital In Service Training Seminars, 8 October 2014 Book Chapters 1. Ulman YI, Medical modernization in the 19 th century Ottoman Empire with special reference to the introduction of Roentgen Rays in Turkey, in Moulin AM, Ulman YI (editors), Perilous Modernity, History of Medicine in the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East from the 19 th century onwards, the Isis Press, ISBN: 978-975-428401-0, Istanbul March 2010:105-118. 2. Moulin AM, Ulman YI, Introduction: The particular place of medicine in the debate on modernity and modernization in the Middle-East in the 19th and the 20th centuries, Perilous Modernity, History of Medicine in the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East from the 19 th century onwards, the Isis Press, ISBN: 978-975-428401-0, Istanbul March 2010: 7-21. 3. Ülman YI, Osmanlı Tıbbına Katkılarıyla Dr. Vuccino / Il Contributo Alla Medicana Otomana del Dr. Vuccino, Istanbul daki İtalyan İzi /Presenze Italiane A Istanbul, editör: Burçak Evren, Lea yay. Ferroli, İstanbul Şubat 2008:224-229. 4. Ülman YI, Muallim Antoine Calleja ve Eczanesi / Il Professor Antoine Calleja e La Sua Farmacia, Istanbul daki İtalyan İzi /Presenze Italiane A Istanbul, editör: Burçak Evren, Lea yay. Ferroli, İstanbul Şubat 2008:214-219.
Ülman YI, Muallim Antoine Calleja ve Eczanesi, Bazı Katkılar, Eczacılık Tarihi Araştırmaları, ed: Afife Mat. İstanbul: 2003: 195-206. 5. Ulman YI: Ange guardien des femmes et des enfants: Prof. Dr. Besim Ömer Pacha (1862-1940) dans Médecins et Ingénieurs ottomans à l âge des nationalismes, ed.: Méropi Anastassiadou-Dumont, Institut Français d Etudes Anatoliennes Paris: Maisoneuve&Larose, 2003: 101-123. 6. Ülman YI, Mekteb-i Tıbbiye-i Şâhâne de Eğitim, Türk Tıp Eğitiminin Önemli Adımları, editörler: H. Hatemi, A. Altıntaş, İstanbul Şubat 2006: 71-76. 7. Ülman YI, Yaşamın Başlangıcı ile ilgili Tıp Etiği Sorunları, Tıp Tarihi ve Tıp Etiği Ders Kitabı, İ.Ü. Cerrahpaşa Tıp Fakültesi 40. Yılda 40 Kitap Serisi, Üniv. Yay.no.4711, Fakülte yay.no.00249, 2007:371-380. (Beginning of Life Issues in view of Medical Ethics). 8. Ülman YI, Yaşamın Sonu ile ilgili Tıp Etiği Sorunları, Tıp Tarihi ve Tıp Etiği Ders Kitabı, İ.Ü. Cerrahpaşa Tıp Fakültesi 40. Yılda 40 Kitap Serisi, Üniv. Yay.no.4711, Fakülte yay.no.00249, 2007:381-386. (End of Life Issues in view of Medical Ethics). 9. Ülman YI, Organ ve Doku Aktarımı ile ilgili Etik Sorunlar, Tıp Tarihi ve Tıp Etiği Ders Kitabı, İ.Ü. Cerrahpaşa Tıp Fakültesi 40. Yılda 40 Kitap Serisi, Üniv. Yay.no.4711, Fakülte yay.no.00249, 2007:387-394. (Organ Transplantation and Ethical Issues) Editorship 1. Saraç C. Salih Zeki Bey, Hayatı ve Eserleri, Editör: Yeşim Işıl Ülman, İstanbul: Kızılelma Yayıncılık. 2001, 192 pages. (Life and Works of Salih Zeki Bey) 2. Sarı N, A.H.Bayat, Ulman YI, M. Işın (editors), Proceedings of the 38th International Congress of the History of Medicine 1-6 September 2002, 3 volumes, published by TTK, Ankara 2005. 3. Tıp Etiğinden Biyoetiğe / Expanding Medical Ethics to Bioethics, Türkiye Biyoetik Derneği Yayını, No. XII, Ankara 2009, 560 pages. (Ed: YI Ulman, T Başağaç Gül, F Kadıoğlu, G Yıldırım, Z Edisan). 4. Moulin AM, Ulman YI (editors), Perilous Modernity, History of Medicine in the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East from the 19 th century onwards, the Isis Press, ISBN: 978-975- 428401-0, Istanbul March 2010, 230 pages. 5. EACME 2011 Conference Bioethics from a Cross-Cultural Perspective, Book of Abstracts, in collaboration with the European Association Centres Medical Ethics and the Turkish Bioethics Association, published by the Turkish Bioethics Association No. XIV, Istanbul, September 15-17, 2011, 327 pages. (Ed: YI Ulman, M Cokar). 6. Biyoetik Araştırmaları / Bioethics Studies, Türkiye Biyoetik Derneği Yayını, No. XVI, Istanbul September 2012, 433 pages. (Ed: YI Ulman and SV Genc) 7. Değişen Dünyada Biyoetik / Bioethics in a Changing World, Türkiye Biyoetik Derneği Yayını, No. XVIII, Istanbul, Kasım 2012, 373 sayfa. (Ed: YI Ulman and F. Artvinli). Coursebook 1. Ülman YI, Coursebook of Medical Ethics and medical History, Istanbul University, Cerrahpaşa School of Medicine, ISBN 978-605-60613, Istanbul 2009 (73 pages).