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Olinda Timms Olinda Timms

Adjunct professor - St Johns Research Institute, Bangalore
India

Bioethics - Medical ethics

Dr Olinda Timms is Adjunct Professor at the Division of Health and Humanities at St. Johns Research Institute, Bangalore.



An alumnus of Christian Medical College, Vellore, she specialized in Anesthesiology, and has worked as Consultant at Private and Mission Hospitals in Bangalore since 1987.



 



Her interest in the field of Medical Ethics led to a Post Graduate Diploma in Medical Law and Ethics from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore and a Post Graduate Diploma in Bioethics from the Indian Council of Medical Research. She is also Fellow in Research Ethics from WIRB, Seattle. Since then she has been teaching and writing on Medical Ethics and has numerous publications to her credit in local newspapers and magazines. Dr. Timms is on the Editorial Board of Indian Journal of Medical Ethics



 



In 2016 her book ‘Biomedical Ethics’ was published by Elsevier India, and is being used as a resource book for teaching medical ethics in Colleges across India.



 



In 2017, she was inducted as a member of UNESCO International Forum of Teachers (IFT) in Bioethics, and established a Unit of the International Network of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics at St Johns Research Institute, Bangalore.  She has written the curriculum on Medical Ethics for the IGNOU BSc. course in Allied Health Sciences and is Adjunct faculty at CMC Vellore for Research Ethics.



Dr. Timms currently serves as Chairperson of the Institution Ethics Committee of Bangalore Baptist Hospital and St Martha’s Hospital Bangalore. She is a member of Unilever Institutional Ethics Committee and Ethics Advisory Committee of the Center for Child and the Law at National Law School of India University.