Daniel Sperling

About

Career narrative

Research interests with brief descriptions

Timeline of academic positions

Educational background

Grants awarded

Languages and specialized skills

Research motivation

Career narrative

In my research, I combine theoretical and doctrinal approaches with empirical work, primarily qualitative, though I also have quantitative experience. I investigate pressing research questions in bioethics (with specific focus on ethics at end-of-life) and health law through interdisciplinary analysis, applying my legal and philosophical expertise. My work also aims to offer practical implications and policy recommendations for healthcare professionals regarding ethical and professional problems.

In forthcoming years, I plan to focus on four main research areas: end-of-life care, dementia, compassion, and normative ethics. I will continue researching end-of-life care, focusing on informal caregivers and medical decision-making by elderly patients, especially those with multi-morbidity and dementia, examining social, ethical, clinical, and policy implications.

I plan three major research projects. First, I will explore healthcare providers' views on end-of-life care, examining the state's and professional organizations' regulatory roles, providers' responses to patient death, and the relationship between compassionate care and such responses. This research will contribute to understanding the concept of "good death" and its institutional, professional, and cultural limitations.

Second, I will focus on dementia care ethics through my leadership in an international research initiative. This involves mapping perceived ethical dilemmas, conducting systematic reviews, assessing caregiver needs, editing a book on advance directives, and developing methods to enhance ethical decision-making in dementia care.

Third, I will write a book on compassion at end-of-life, examining how emotions influence normative decision-making in ethics and law. Using three case studies, the book will analyze compassion's role in triggering and affecting normative decisions.

Theoretically, I aim to develop a theory explaining the connection between clinical disease development and ethical expression—currently missing from existing ethical theories. I will continue publishing on professional ethics, particularly nursing ethics, while supervising students and collaborating on new research projects.

Research interests with brief descriptions

Bioethics
Death and dying; End-of-life care
Law and health
Health policy
Compassion
Nursing ethics and moral distress
Ethics of dementia care

Timeline of academic positions

Years

Name of Institution and Department

Faculty

Rank/Position

10/2019-Current

*04/2022- Current

University of Haifa,

Department of Nursing

Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences

Associate Professor Full time *

tenure**

09/2017-08/2019

Yezreel Valley Academic College

Department of Health Systems Management

School of Health and Welfare Studies

Senior Lecturer (Procedure for the rank of Associate Professor ceased due to the position at University of Haifa)

2015

Bar-Ilan University

Faculty of Law

Adjunct faculty

07/2013-10/2019

University of Haifa

Faculty of Law

Adjunct faculty

07/2008-10/2014

Hebrew University of Jerusalem, School of Public Health &Community Medicine and School of Public Policy & Government

Faculty of Medicine & Faculty of Social Sciences

Senior Lecturer

2008

University of Haifa

Faculty of Law

Adjunct faculty

09/2006-08/2008

Netanya Academic College

School of Law

Lecturer

09/2005-06/2008

Tel-Aviv University

Faculty of Law

Adjunct faculty

* Represents activities and publications since last appointment.

** Represents activities and publications since Tenured

Educational background

Period of Study

Name of Institution and Department

Degree

08/2003-06/2006

University of Toronto, Faculty of Law and the Joint Center for Bioethics

S.J.D.

08/2002-06/2003

University of Toronto, Faculty of Law and the Joint Center for Bioethics

LL.M.

10/1996-03/2000

Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Law and Department of Philosophy

LL.B.+B.A. (Humanities)(Philosophy)

Grants awarded

Role in Research

Other Researchers

(Name & Role)

Title

Funded by

Years and Publications

**PI

Jamal Dagash, Research Partners.

Use of home hospice services and palliative care by Israeli

Arabs: Patterns, barriers, and encouraging and inhibiting factors

Israel National Institute for Health Policy Research (C)

Article in preparation (2023-2026)

**Network Member

Giles Birchley and Neera Bhaita (PIs)

Children's Medical Tourism: Developing an inclusive base for international study

Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK)

(2023-2025)

**PI

Efrat Shadmi & Motti Haimi, Co-PI.

Intersectionality, equity and equality in telehealth usage: The combination of socio-demographic characteristics of telehealth users and their relation to healthcare services utilization and health outcomes

Chief Scientist Office at the Ministry of Health (V)

Article in preparation (2022-2024)

*PI

Hedva Vinarsky Peretz, Co-PI.

Wellbeing of working family members who care for the elderly entitled to long-term care insurance benefits

National Insurance Institute (C)

Article in preparation (2022-2024)

*PI

Wassiem Abu Hatoum (M.A. Student)

Shared decision-making at end-of-life care for end stage renal disease patients in Israel

Minerva Center for Interdisciplinary Study of End of Life, University of Tel Aviv (C)

D41, D49, J1 (2021-2022)

*PI

Israel (Issi) Doron Co-PI

Hospital Ethics Committees: Responsibilities, Competencies and challenges

Research fund of the Faculty of Social Welfare & Health Sciences (C)

Article in preparation (2020-2021)

*PI

Ori Hochwald Co-PI

Preterm deliveries at 22-25 weeks' gestation: Medical, ethical and legal controversies and challenges

Joint research fund of the Faculty of Social Welfare & Health Sciences and Rambam Health Care Campus (C)

D46 (2020-2021)

*PI

End-of-life needs, expectations and concerns of older LGBT people

The Minerva Center on Intersectionality in Ageing (C)

J3 (2020-2021)

Preferences of Israeli suicide tourists

The Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Dignified End-of-Life Research Grant (C)

D37, D38 (2018-2019)

Preferences of Israeli suicide tourists

Yezreel Valley Academic College, Research Authority (C) (Internal source)

D37, D38 (2018-2019)

IRBs: Justifications and Challenges

MOFET Institute Research Grant (C)

D34 (2018)

Palliative sedation: Ethical perspectives

Eliot Philip Memorial Lecture Fund (medical ethics) (C)

D6 (2014)

Review of decision-making, status and contribution of HMOs committees for exceptional cases to access and quality of medical care

The Israel National Institute for Health Policy and Health Services Research (C)

D16, D24 (2011-2013)

Justice and Equality in Provision of Reproductive Technologies

Department of Internal Grants, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Grant awarded for receiving "very good" evaluation by the Israel Science Foundation in a research proposal for the years 2008-2009)

(C)

D21, D23, D26 (2010)

Gabriel Gurman

Co-PI

Examination of Factors Inhibiting and Encouraging Organ Donation in Israel

Soroka University Medical Center Research Fund

D22 (2010)

Review of Attitudes and Policies Regarding Fertility Care and Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Israel

The Levi Eshkol Institute for Social, Economic and Political Research in Israel (C)

D15 (2009)

Languages and specialized skills

Hebrew

English

Research motivation

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