Sabine Salloch is a researcher in medical ethics at the Institute for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. Her research interests are in clinical ethics, medical professionalism and the methodology of empirical-ethical research. Her work has been published in a broad range of ethical and medical journals and she has won scholarships and prizes, including by the Ethox Centre (University of Oxford), the Akademie fur Ethik in der Medizin (AEM) and The North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts. Verena Sandow is freelancer for project management and coordination. She is a trained philosopher and scientist in the fields of medical ethics and applied ethics. Following her studies in Philosophy, Media Studies and Economic History at the Heinrich-Heine-University Dusseldorf, she was a member of the research training group "Bioethics" at the International Centre in Science and Humanities, Eberhard-Karls-University Tubingen. She worked in the fields of human medical research and research ethics and co-organised several conferences in the field of Medical Ethics at the Institute for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. Jan Schildmann is a physician and senior researcher at the Institute for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. His research covers a range of topics in clinical ethics and research ethics. In addition he is interested in methodological aspects of combining normative and empirical analysis. With regards to teaching he has developed several modules on professionalism and ethics for students and healthcare professionals. His work has been awarded with several research and teaching prizes. Jochen Vollmann is Professor and Director at the Institute for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine and Chair of the Centre for Medical Ethics, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. His research interests include informed consent and capacity assessment, mental health ethics, end-of-life decision making, advance directives, personalised medicine, medical professionalism, clinical ethics committees, and clinical ethics consultation. He was honoured with the Prize for Brain Research in Geriatrics of the University of Witten/Herdecke, the Stehr-Boldt-Prize for Medical Ethics of the University of Zurich, the Research Award of the German Association of Palliative Medicine, as well as the University Teaching Award "lehrreich" of the Ruhr-University Bochum and the "Gaudium docendi" Teaching Award of the Society of Friends and Sponsors of the Ruhr-University Bochum.