Dr Benedikt N. Beer

Dr Benedikt N. Beer is a cardiologist in specialist training at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Germany, and a PhD candidate at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, where his doctoral research addresses the epidemiology and pharmacotherapy of chronic heart failure using large-scale health registries. He studied medicine at Hannover Medical School, where he also obtained a research doctorate in experimental hepatology (Dr. med.), and holds a B.A. in political science and a Master of Health Business Administration. He is also a Clinician Scientist Fellow of the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK). At Oxford, he is a member of Kellogg College.

His clinical and research work centres on cardiogenic shock, acute heart failure and mechanical circulatory support. He is principal investigator of a randomised trial in cardiogenic shock. Through his registry-based work and a visiting postdoctoral position at Inserm’s Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Statistics in Paris, he has developed a particular interest in target trial emulation and transportation studies as a complement to randomised trials.

His interests in practical ethics grow out of daily practice in intensive care, emergency and palliative medicine. They include decision-making under prognostic uncertainty and constrained patient autonomy, the allocation of scarce life-sustaining therapies, the ethics of research in critically ill patients, and the relationship between randomised and observational evidence. He is also interested in the governance of health data and the use of AI in clinical research.

Contact: benedikt.beer@kellogg.ox.ac.uk | ORCID: 0000-0003-4315-2533