- Head of the Institute for History and Ethics of Medicine since April 2018
- Studies in human medicine, and a postgrad. Degrees in Medical Law and Ethics (King’s College London) and Philosophy in the European Context (Distance Learning University of Hagen)
- Specialist in Internal Medicine, additional qualification in palliative medicine
- Since 2023: Board of the Central Commission for the Preservation of Ethical Principles in Medicine and its Border Areas (ZEKO) of the German Medical Association
- Chairman scientific advisory board of the Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG)
- Since 2021: Spokesperson of the working group “NKLM AG Weiterentwicklung” of the Medizinischer Fakultätentag
- 2019: Additional qualification in palliative medicine
- Since 04/2018: Director of the Institute for History and Ethics of Medicine, Medical Faculty of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
- 2017: Appointment as a member of the scientific advisory board of the Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG)
- 2016: Appointment to the W3 professorship in medical ethics, Wilhelm Löhe University of Applied Sciences, Fürth (part-time) and work as a specialist in internal medicine, Med. Klinik III, Klinikum der Universität München, Campus Großhadern (part-time)
- 2016: Appointment to the Central Commission for the Preservation of Ethical Principles in Medicine and its Border Areas (ZEKO) of the German Medical Association
- 2011: Habilitation in the field of “History, Theory, Ethics of Medicine” Specialist in Internal Medicine
- 2010–2016: Member of the Ethikkommission der Medizinischen Fakultät, Ruhr University Bochum
- 2009: Appointment as Akademischer Rat a. Z., Institute for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, Ruhr University Bochum
- 2004: Medical Doctorate, Medical Faculty of the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg
- 2003–2005: Member of the Clinical Ethics Committee, Erlangen University Hospital
- 2002–2009: Researcher in medical ethics (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg; Ruhr University Bochum) and residency in internal medicine (University Hospital Erlangen; Robert-Rössle-Klinik/Helios Klinikum Berlin-Buch)
- 2001–2002: MA postgraduate studies: Medical Law and Ethics at King’s College London
- 1995–2001: studies of human medicine at Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, study visits: St. Bartholomew’s Medical School, London, Mt. Sinai Medical School, New York, Universidad Autonoma, Madrid
- Since 2021: Spokesperson of the working group “NKLM AG Weiterentwicklung” of the Medizinischer Fakultätentag
- Since 2017: Appointment as a member of the scientific advisory board of the Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG)
- Since 2016: Appointment to the Central Commission for the Preservation of Ethical Principles in Medicine and its Border Areas (ZEKO) of the German Medical Association
- Since 2011 Co-speaker "AK Medizin und Ethik", German Society for Hematology and Oncology
- Ethics and evidence in clinical medicine
- Research ethics
- Theoretical and methodological foundations of medical ethics
- Ethics and modern technologies in health care
- Allocation ethics
- Ethics in the neurosciences
- Teaching and education research
Selection:
- Schildmann J, Junghanss C, Oldenburg M, Schuler U, Trümper L, Wörmann B, Winkler E: Role and responsibility of oncologists in assisted suicide. Practice and views among members of the German Society of Haematology and Medical Oncology. ESMO Open. 2021;6(6):1-8. doi.org/10.1016/j.esmoop.2021.100329.
- Schildmann J, Nadolny S, Haltaufderheide J, Gysels M, Vollmann J, Bausewein C: Ethical case interventions for adult patients (Review). Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2019;7(7):CD012636. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD012636.pub2.
- Ives J, Dunn M, Molewijk B, Schildmann J, Bærøe K, Frith L, Huxtable R, Landeweer E, Mertz M, Provoost V, Rid A, Salloch S, Sheehan M, Strech D, de Vries M, Widdershoven G: Standards of practice in Empirical Bioethics research: Towards a consensus. BMC Med Ethics. 2018;19(1):68. doi: 10.1186/s12910-018-0304-3.
- Schildmann J, Bruns F, Hess V, Vollmann J: “History, theory and ethics of medicine”: The last ten years. A survey of course content, methods and structural preconditions at twenty-nine German medical faculties. GMS J Med Educ. 2017;34(2):Doc23. doi: 10.3205/zma001100.
- Browman GP, Vollmann J, Virani A, Schildmann J: Improving the quality of ‘personalized medicine’ research and practice: Through an ethical lens. Per Med.2014;11(4):413–423.
- Schildmann J, Ritter P, Salloch S, Uhl W, Vollmann J: “One also needs a bit of trust in the doctor …” A qualitative interview study with pancreatic cancer patients about their perceptions and views on information and treatment decision-making. Ann Oncol. 2013;24:2444–2449.
