Tom Goffin is an associate professor in Health Law at Ghent University and one of the founding members of the interfaculty and interdisciplinary research platform METAMEDICA of Ghent University.
He has obtained a master in law and a doctor in law (medical law) from the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium), where he started his profession experience as a research assistant in the Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law of the Faculty of Medicine (2006-2012). From 2012 until 2018 he worked for the legal service of the National Council of the Belgian Order of Physicians. Since August 2014 until he started at Ghent University in January 2019, he was project manager for the reform of the health professions regulation in Belgium. He is expert on health law of the Belgian Superior Health Council and member of the Belgian Advisory Committee on Bioethics. Tom is president of the Belgian Federal Commission on Patient Rights, editor of the European Journal of Health Law and associate editor of the international encyclopeadia on medical law.
Tom teaches courses at Ghent University in health law. Within HINT.GENT, he is WP leader of WP4 “Ethics & Law”. He is legal advisor of the Ethics Committee of the University Hospital UZGent.
