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Tom Koch is a writer, researcher, and public speaker specializing in the fields of news and information, gerontology, home care, and bioethics. With degrees from Clark University (Worcester, Mass. USA) and the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC. Canada), he has received advanced fellowships to both the University of Hawaii and Ohio State University. At present, he is an adjunct professor in geography (medical) at the University of British Columbia, and gerontology at Simon Fraser University (Vancouver). He is also a bioethicist at the Canadian Down syndrome Society (Research Council) and a former member of its board of directors. As a research associate in bioethics at the Hospital for Sick Children, in the 1990s Professor Koch directed a pilot program i using multicriterion decision making, to develop policy in areas of bioethical uncertainty. That work involved multiple focus groups and the use of an analytic hierarchy program to consider issues of organ transplant eligibility and the care of the severely limited child. The research that resulted was published in several journal articles and the book, The Limits of Principle. In elder care, his focus has been on the reality of home-based elder car and the needs of the caregiver. More recently, themes from that work have been applied to non-geriatric, "adult" crises, alcoholism, divorce, illness, sexual dysfunction and unemployment, In the field of ethics and bioethics he is known for his writings on assisted suicide and euthanasia, organ transplantation, and the potential for an interpersonal ethical approach to biomedical and ethical dilemmas. Articles on these subjects are listed in the "ethics" section of the web page A former program coordinator at the European Journalism Centre, Holland, he has lectured widely in both Europe and North America on news and online information technique. In addition, he is known for his expertise in making online resources—including the Internet—understandable in lectures to both news professionals and general audiences. In other areas, he is an accredited bicycling
League of American Bicyclists instructor (EC #188); a fourth degree black belt in
Hombu-style Aikido; and a first-degree black belt in two separate styles of karate. Born
in the United States, he is a resident of Canada.
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