Dr. med. Bernd Alt-Epping studied Medicine at the University of Münster and at the University of Wales, College of Medicine, Cardiff GB. In 1997 he began to work at the Department of Internal Medicine at the Gemeinschaftskrankenhaus Herdecke, with emphasis on intensive an emergency care and palliative oncology. From 2002 until 2006 he specialized in the field of haematology and oncology at the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), and turned towards the field of Palliative Medicine. Since 2006, he works at the Department of Palliative Medicine, UMG, as a clinician, lecturer and researcher.

• Ethical decision making
• characteristics of the oncology/palliative medicine border zone
• measures of symptom control

• Jansky, M. /Marx, G./Nauck, F./Alt-Epping, B. (2013): Physicians’s and nurses‘ expectations and objections toward a clinical ethics committee. Nurs Ethics, 2013, May 28. [Epub ahead of print]
• Marx, G./Nauck, F./Alt-Epping, B. (2012): Implementierung eines Klinischen Ethikkomitees. In: Frewer, A./Bruns, F./May, AT. (Hrsg.): Ethikberatung in der Medizin. Heidelberg: Springer, 115-126.
• Alt-Epping, B./Simon, A./Nauck, F. (2010): Substitution von Blutkomponenten in der Palliativmedizin – Kriterien der Transfusionsbegrenzung in der ethischen Reflexion. Dtsch Med Wochenschr 2010; 135(42): 2083-7.
• Alt-Epping, B./Gründel, M./Robrecht-Kauenhoven, H. (2003): Psychosoziale Onkologie für die hausärztliche Praxis. Z Allg Med 2003, 79: 84-89.
• Nauck, F./Alt-Epping, B. (2008): Crises in palliative care – a comprehensive approach. Lancet Oncol 2008; 9(11): 1086-91.
• Alt-Epping, B./Sitte, T./Nauck, F./Radbruch L. (2010): Sedierung in der Palliativmedizin – Leitlinie für den Einsatz sedierender Maßnahmen in der Palliativversorgung. Z Palliativmed 2010; 11: 112-122.