Yonghui Ma is now Associate Professor on medical ethics/bioethics and also the Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics at Medical School, Xiamen University. She had a bachelor degree on Medicine from Southeast University, MA from Peking Union Medical College, and obtained her PhD on bioethics from The University of Manchester in the UK on 2013 (under full scholarship and supervised by Prof. John Harris). She was also visiting fellow of Brocher Fondation (Geneva) during Feb-April on 2014. She is also member of International Association of Bioethics (IAB), Member of Medical Ethics branch of China Medical Association, member of Chinese Bioethics Association.  She is also serving as editorial Board Member of Nursing Ethics (SCI/SSCI), Accountability in research (SCI/SSCI), BMC Medical Ethics (SCI), Asian Bioethics Review, and Chinese Medical Ethics Journal, editorial committee member of journals including Medicine and Philosophy. She also serves as Institutional Review Board member (IRB,or Ethics consultants) in many tertiary hospitals in Xiamen as well as some other academic Institutions. She is also member of ABC (Advisory Bioethics Committee) of Sanofi, member of ICH E6R3 domestic expert panel.

Dr. Ma’s research interests focus on genetic ethics, clinical ethics, ethics of new biomedical technology, cross-cultural bioethics. She has published 26 papers on American Journal of Bioethics (Target Article, the first paper in AJOB from mainland China), BMC Medical Ethics, Nursing Ethics, Bioethics, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, Journal of Bioethical inquiry, Asian Bioethics Review, Lancet, Experimental Dermatology, Protein & cell, as well as more than 30 papers in Chinese journals, e.g. Chinese Medical Ethics, Medicine and Philosophy, Chinese Medical Journal, etc.