Karola Kreitmair

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Karola Kreitmair received her PhD in philosophy from Stanford University in 2013. She completed a clinical ethics fellowship at the Stanford Center of Biomedical Ethics before joining the faculty at UW-Madison’s School of Medicine and Public Health in the Department of Medical History and Bioethics. Her recent work includes ethical issues around allocation strategies for critical resources in light of COVID-19 induced scarcity. Karola is also working on the ethics of digital behavioral technology, with a particular focus on the phenomenological, epistemological, and existential implications of self-tracking technology. In addition, she is considering problems regarding the ethical duties generated by consciousness, such as in minimally conscious state patients and cerebral organoids. Outside of academia, Karola writes and directs plays. Her recent play, “Homo ex Machina” explores existential questions brought on by deep-brain stimulation.