Prof. Eyal Katvan is a Jurist, Ethicist, Bioethicist and Legal and Medical Historian. He is an Associate Professor at Peres Academic Center where he is also the head of the Institute for the Study of the Professions and the M.A. Program in Law (for non-lawyers). Prof. Katvan wrote two Doctoral dissertations. The research he conducts is multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary, combining the fields of Law, Medicine, Women/Gender, Ethics and History, focusing on: Health/Medical Profession(s), History of Medicine and Bioethics/Medical Humanities (Medical, Physical and Psychological Examinations; History of the medical professions (Dentistry; Midwifery; Medicine) and history of Women in the Medical/Health Professions; Public Health – History and Current Lessons; Organ Transplantation); The Legal Professions, Professional Ethics and Legal History (The Professionalization Process and the History of the Legal Professions History of Women in this Profession; Professional Ethics (lawyers and judges), Honor and Behavior; Publication and Dissemination of Legal Knowledge). Many of his studies have been published in the leading peer-reviewed legal, historical (Israel Studies), gender/women’s studies and medical journals. He won several prizes, scholarships and grants, including from the Israel Science Foundation (ISF) and the Israel National Institute for Health Policy Research (NIHP). Prof. Katvan served as a visiting scholar at the Department of Ethics, Philosophy and History of Medicine, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands; Hadassah Brandeis Institute, Brandeis University  MA, USA; International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Onati, Spain; Max-Planck-Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt, Germany; Center for Clinical Bioethics, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA.

He chaired the Public Committee on Age Limit for Organ Transplantation. He also served as a member of the National Transplantation Steering Committee; the research committee of the National Transplant Center; the institutional (ethical) committee for live organ donation; the National IRB Committee (genetic experiments).