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                                  About Jan Bernheim

   Jan Bernheim, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.P., M.F.P.M.

   Professor of Medicine (part-time, tenured)
   [externallink.GIF] [2]Human Ecology Department, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy,
   [3]Free University of Brussels (VUB)
   Laarbeeklaan 103, 1090 Brussel, Belgium
   tel +32-2-477 42 81
   e-mail: jan.bernheim [at] vub.ac.be

   Biomedical Consultant
   Bernheim - Pro Scientia
   Schepenijlaan 18, 1180 Brussel, Belgium
   Tel: +32-2-374 66 69,
   Cellular: +32- 479 2908 70
   e-mail: bernprosci [ at ] hotmail.com

   Interests:
     * measurement of subjective quality of life or [4]happiness through the ACSA
       (Anamnestic Comparative Self-Assessment) method
     * societal [5]progress
     * bioethics, including issues such as euthanasia
     * oncology: interaction between exogenous and genetic factors in hormonal
       carcinogenesis
     * drug-disease interactions

   Selected publications:
     * Bernheim Jan, Mendelsohn J., Kelley M., Dorian R. (1977): Kinetics of cell
       death and disintegration in human lymphocyte cultures. Proceedings of the
       National Academy of Sciences (USA), 74 :2536-2540, .
     * Bernheim J., Buyse M. (1984). "Anamnestic comparative self assessment (ACSA):
       A method to measure the subjective quality of life of cancer patients". J.
       Psychosoc. Oncol. 1, p. 25-38,
     * Bernheim, Jan (1995): "Quality of life, or qualities of life? A critique, and
       a plea for emphasized global assessment of QOL", Quality of Life Research 3 ,
       p. 155-156.
     * Bernheim, Jan & Vrana I. (1995): Similia similibus obscurantur : the
       pharmacological clinical activity bias. I. A prototype model to correct a
       disease drug interaction leading to misestimations of drug-attributable
       side-effects. Fundamental Clinical Pharmacology 9 : 583-592, .
     * Bernheim J. (1999): "How to Get Serious Answers to the Serious Question: `How
       have you been?': Subjective Quality of Life (QOL) as an Individual
       Experiential Emergent Construct", Bioethics 13: 3&4 .
     * Bernheim J. (1999): "The Cognitive Revolution and 21st Century Enlightenment:
       towards a contemporary evolutionary progressive world view", in: Aerts D., S.
       Gutwirth, Smets S. & L. Van Langenhove (eds.), Science, Technology and Social
       Change (Kluwer Academic Press, Dordrecht), p. 63-96.
     * Heylighen F. & Bernheim J. (2000): "[6]Global Progress I: empirical evidence
       for increasing quality of life", Journal of Happiness Studies [in press]
     * Heylighen F. & Bernheim J. (2000): "Global Progress II: evolutionary
       mechanisms and their side-effects", Journal of Happiness Studies [in press]
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