Dr. Derrick Aarons, MD, PhD, is the author of Vital Communications in Medicine. A family physician and consultant global bioethicist, he was the Convenor and Founding President of the Bioethics Society of the English-speaking Caribbean (BSEC), the Ethicist at the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) and has lectured at several universities across the Caribbean.
He did his medical degree (MB.BS.) at the University of the West Indies, his Master’s specialization in Bioethics at the McGill Centre for Medicine, Ethics, and Law, and his PhD in Experimental Medicine and Bioethics at McGill University in Montreal.
Dr. Aarons has served as a member of the International Advisory Board for Bioethics of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and serves on the Ethics and Professionalism Board of the World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA). He is also currently serving an 8-year appointment by the Director-General of UNESCO as an Independent Expert Member of the International Bioethics Committee [The IBC] of UNESCO, the only advisory body within the United Nations system that debates and forms policies on the ethical issues of advances in medicine and the life sciences worldwide.
