Jana Wegehöft, M.A.
Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine
Jana Wegehöft, M.A.
Georg August University of Göttingen
University Medical Center Göttingen
Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine
Humboldtallee 36
37073 Göttingen
Mail: jana.wegehoeft(at)med.uni-goettingen.de
Room: 1.108
- Since January 2025: Research Fellow at the Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine within the research project: Preparing Primary Care for Alzheimer’s Disease Risk Communication: Ethical Implications of Early Detection (PREPARE)
- 2024: Master of Arts in Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology, University of Göttingen, Master thesis: “"Will that do any good?" Older people's expectations, perceptions, and (lack of) knowledge of dementia prevention in a group-based prevention program. An ethnographic study.""
- August 2023 - December 2024: Research Assistant at the Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine within the research project: Preparing Primary Care for Alzheimer’s Disease Risk Communication: Ethical Implications of Early Detection (PREPARE)
- July 2023 - December 2024: Research Assistant at the Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine for digital inventory, website, teaching and event support
- November 2022 - June 2023: Research Assistant at Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine within the research project: Ethical and Social Issues of Co-Intelligent Monitoring and Assistive Technologies in Dementia Care (EIDEC)
- May 2022 - January 2023: Research Assistant at Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine within the research project: Optimizing the aging Brain? Situating Ethical Aspects of Dementia Prevention (BEAD)
- Juli 2021-November 2022: Research Assistant at the Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung Göttingen (GWDG) [Data and IT Service Center from the University of Göttingen and the Max Planck Society]
- 2020: Bachelor of Arts in Political and Social Studies & European Ethnology/ Folkloristic, University Würzburg
- March 2019 - September 2019: Elected member of the Student Government, University Würzburg
Research
- Dementia prevention
- Dementia diagnostic & communication
- Anthropology of knowledge & medicine
- Questions of Ageing
- Qualitative research
Publications
- Wegehöft, Jana; Schicktanz, Silke & Perry, Julia (in print). Ethische Aspekte einer Testung auf Demenzrisiko. In: Pantel, Johannes ; Frölich, Lutz & Teipel, Stefan (Hrs.). Neue Therapien der Alzheimer-Krankheit. Grundlagen – Klinische Aspekte – Durchführung in der Praxis. Kohlhammer. ISBN 978-3-17-045399-9
- Wegehöft, Jana (2022). Wegbereiter:innen, Im Einsatz für den Wald(rand) — Naturschutz unter Rentner:innen. In: Julia Fleischhack et al. (Eds.). Waldakteur:innen. Ein kulturwissenschaftlicher Streifzug. Göttingen, pp. 20-33. https://www.uni-goettin-gen.de/de/document/download/5d752e3065c5cdd573d35523fae35d18.pdf/Waldakteur-innen-Buch.pdf
Presentations & moderation
- „Zukunftsentwürfe für den Einsatz blutbasierter Biomarker zur Alzheimer-Früherkennung für die Jahre
2030 und 2045: ein empirisch-ethischer Ansatz“, Jahrestagung der Akademie für Ethik der Medizin (AEM),
October, 10., 2025, Munich (Germany), (w. Julia Perry, Silke Schicktanz, Simon Fink) - „Ethische Expertenanalyse eines potenziellen hausärztlichen Einsatzes blutbasierter Biomarker zur
Alzheimer-Früherkennung für die Jahre 2030 und 2045“ in the symposium „Früherkennung von Demenz in
der hausärztlichen Praxis“, 59. Kongress der Allgemeinmedizin und Familienmedizin (DEGAM), October 3.,
2025, Hanover (Germany), (w. Julia Perry, Silke Schicktanz, Simon Fink) - „Ethical considerations in communication practices within a local group-based dementia prevention
programme: Social and ethical challenges and potential modifications”, poster presentation, European
Association of Centres of Medical Ethics (EACME) Annual Conference; 2025, September 11.-13., Zürich
(Switzerland) - „Zukunftsszenarien und ethische Überlegungen zum klinischen Einsatz blutbasierter Biomarker (PREPARE)“
in the symposium „Früherkennung der Alzheimer-Krankheit – Herausforderungen neuer diagnostischer und
therapeutischer Möglichkeiten“, XVII. DGGPP-Kongress, June 26., 2025, Düsseldorf (Germany), (w. Julia
Perry) - Production and moderation of the podcast series „Demenz-Assistenz“ [Dementia assistance] about artificial intelligence and robotics in the care of people with dementia in the project EIDEC (5 episodes) (May-September 2023)
- „Der Podcast als wissenschaftskommunikatives Repräsentationsmedium“, Student Conference, Deutschen
Gesellschaft für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft); May 28., 2023, Freiburg (Germany)
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