Marina Morla González, PhD
marina.morla@unileon.es
mmorlg@unileon.es
Dr. Marina Morla investigates how sophisticated technology can contribute to advanced medicine while considering the questions its pace raises in the fields of health law and bioethics on the diligence given to the protection of patient rights. In her book Medicina personalizada de precisión y derechos fundamentales, she focuses on legal and ethical dilemmas raised by precision medicine applied through digital therapies, such as digital pills for the treatment of chronic diseases. In her forthcoming book Terapias digitales, aspectos regulatorios y su impacto en el derecho a la salud, she addressed the pathway to follow for new digital therapies to enter the market in the US and Europe, and how their extensive use may impact the right to the access of medical therapies. Having published several book chapters and scientific papers in renowned journals, she is currently leading a special issue in the Bioethics journal (in press) on how healthcare technologies may affect patient autonomy. She has participated in more than sixty conferences in Institutions and Universities around Europe. She is Assistant Professor in the Degress of Law, of Biotecnology, and the Masters of Cibersecurity Law and of Research in Primare Care (University of León, Spain). Marina has developed her research through leading Universities in Europe, such as the Radboud University (The Netherlands), the University of Oxford (UK), and the University of York (UK). In addition to collaborating regularly with research institutes and laboratories, she is the secretary of the Ethics Committee for the Spanish Foundation for A Tomorrow Without the Alzheimer’s disease.
Education
BA. Law, University of León, Spain.
MA. Law, University of León, Spain.
MA. Health Law, University Ceu San Pablo, Spain.
Ph.D., Derecho: protección jurídica y cohesion social, with the theses titled: “The right to the freedom of consciousness in the face of the use of healthcare digital therapies”, Cum Laude Mark and the additional title of Doctor Europaeus, University of León, Spain
Area of research and interests:
Health Law, Bioethics, Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, Medical Ethics, Public Health Ethics
Honors and awards:
Best oral communication award for the best paper at the 1st International Congress “Law and Justice in the face of Artificial Intelligence and other disruptive technologies” (University of Cádiz, Spain, 2023).
Award for innovation in teaching at the University 2023 by the Social Council of the University of León to the Biopsychosocial Humanised Health Care Teaching Innovation Group, with an endowment of €2,000.
Fundación Pluralismo y Convivencia Award (Spain, 2019).
Marina was part of the group of professionals who were awarded by the International Organisation Human Rights in Childbirth with the “International Award for the Defence of Human Rights in Childbirth Care” in 2019, for the elaboration and presentation of four joint complaints to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).
Best Oral Communication Award at the Congress of Medical Students of the University of Oviedo (University of Oviedo, Spain, CEMUO) (2018)
