Dr. Tessa Chelouche

International Chair in Bioethics (WMA Cooperation Center), Israel

Tessa Chelouche, M.D, originally from South Africa, is a family physician and the director of a primary care practice in Israel.

For the past 20 years, and continuing in the present, she has directed and taught an undergraduate course on Medicine and the Holocaust at the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion Institute, Haifa, Israel.

She is the Co-Chair of the Department of Bioethics and the Holocaust of the International Chair in Bioethics (World Medical Association Cooperation Center).

She is the co-editor of the Casebook on Bioethics and the Holocaust which has been translated into 7 languages. She has published numerous articles and book chapters on Medicine during the Nazi period, Bioethics and the Holocaust and is a member of the Lancet Commission on: Medicine and the Holocaust: Historical Evidence, Implications for Today, Teaching for Tomorrow (that was published in the Lancet journal in November 2023).