Marcelo Palacios

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

  • Medical doctor, specialised in General Surgery and Orthopaedic Surgery in Germany, Sweden and Swiss (1962 to 1968).
  • Professor of the International School of Medical Sophrology.
  • Head of the Service of Accidents in the Hospital of Jove, Gijón (Spain), from 1969 to 1971, and of the Service of Serious Burned, plastic and hand Surgery, that created.
  • Beginning and direction of the Service of accidents of the Catalonia Clinic and the Clinic of the Carmen, of Gijón (Spain) from 1969 to 1973.
  • Creator and medical Director of the Sport Clinic (1972 to 1979) of the Polisportive Society “Group of Culture Covadonga” (Gijón, Spain).
  • Medical Director of the Polyclinic (House of the Sea) of the Social Institute of Marine, Gijón (Spain) and Provincial Medical inspector by opposition (nº 1), from 1978 to 1983 and from February of 1996 to November 2000.
BIOETHICS ACTIVITIES:   
  • Founder of the International Society of Bioethics (SIBI) and Director of the SIBI Journal(spanish-english).
  • Within the Spanish Parliament (Socialist Representative 1982-1995): See Political Parlamientary Activities.
  • President of the following bodies:.
    • Assisted Reproduction Commission .
    • Scientific Research and Technological Development Commission.
    • Parliamentary Bioethics Committee.
  • Member of:
    • Health Commission.
    • Drugs Commision.
    • Women Commisión.
  • Author and rapporteur of the following Proposal of Laws or Bills (adopted): .
    • Techniques of Assisted Reproduction (Law 35/88).
    • Use of Human Embryos and Foetuses (Law 42/88).
    • Creation of a Parliamentary Bioethics Committee.
    • Creation of a National Commission of Assisted Reproduction.
    • On Education in Bioethics.
  • Rapporteur of the following Laws:
    • General of Health (1994).
    • General of Drugs (1994).
    • Criminal Law (in Commision) 1993.
    • Voluntary Pregnancy Termination.
    • Genetically Modified Micro-organisms.
    • Annual General Budgets of the State, etc.
  • Within the Council of Europe (Socialist Representative 1986-1996) .
    • President of the Bioethics Sub-Commission (1990-1995).
    • General Rapporteur on Bioethics of the Parliamentary Assembly and representative in the CDBI (1990-1996).
    • Author and Rapporteur of several reports regarding:
      • The use of human embryos and foetuses for scientific purposes (1987).
      • The elaboration of a Bioethics Convention (1986-1996); rapporteur of this Convention along ten years, he proposed its opening for signature in Asturias (4.4.97); It is known as Bioethics Convention of Asturias and in Spain it is in force since 1.1.2000
  • Within the European Union (1991-1994):
    • Member of the Human Genome Analyse Programme (ESLA Group: Ethical, Social and Legal Aspects) and co-author of the final Rapport.
  • Within the Interparliamentary Union: (Madrid, 1995)
    • Rapporteur of the report "Bioethics: An International Challenge for the Protection of Human Rights", and co-author of the finaly addopted Document
PUBLICATIONS, LECTURES
  • Author of several books and other numerous publications.
  • Participant in many speeches, courses, conferences, etc. regarding Bioethics.
    In Spain: Madrid, Alcala de Henares, Barcelona, Gerona, Sabadell, Palma de Mallorca, Mahón,
             the Palms, S. Cruz de Tenerife, Santander, River basin, Segovia, Palencia, Avila, Salamanca,          Valladolid, Leon, Ponferrada, Seville, Granada, Malaga, Almeria, Jaén, Cadiz, Baeza,          Linares, Jerez de la Frontera, Baza, Pamplona, Bilbao, San Sebastián, Alicante, Valencia,          Ceuta, Gijón, Oviedo, Avilés, Zaragoza, Corunna, Santiago de Compostela, Orense, etc
    In other countries: Paris, Toulouse, Lyon, Strasbourg (France), Dublín (Ireland), London (United
             Kingdom), Lisbon (Portugal), Budapest (Hungary), The Prague (Czech Rep.), Athens
             (Greece), Vienna (Austria), Bern (Swiss), Brussels (Belgium), Malta, Stockholm (Sweden),          Copenhagen (Denmark), Helsinki (Finland), Milan, Palermo, Sicily, Trithis (Italy), Mexico          D.F. (Mexico), Caracas (Venezuela), Bogota, Medellín (Colombia), Buenos Aires          (Argentina), Havana (Cuba), Brazilia and Foz de Iguazu (Brazil) and Alexandria (Egypt)
            

POLITICAL-PARLIAMENTARY ACTIVITIES

  • 1979-1983 Vicemayor of the City Council of Gijón. President of the Commission of Health.
  • 1982 Regional Deputy.
  • 982-1996 DEPUTY in General Cortes.
  • Member of the Commissions of Social Policy and Employment, of the Health, of the Woman, the Drug and Foreing Affairs.
  • President of the Special Commission of Study on the Human In vitro Fertilization and the Artificial Insemination of the Congress of the Deputies (1985-1986).
    • Author of the Closing report of the Commission, approved by Plenary Session of the Congress the 10 of April of 1986. (Published in 1987)
  • President of the Mixed Commission of Scientific research and Technological Development (Plan I+D). 1994-1995. Organizer of Days of Opening of the Parliament to the Society:
    • On molecular Biology (tribute to Severe Ochoa), May 1995.
    • On scientific research and mass media, November 1995.
  • President of the Parliamentary Committee of Bioethics (1995) (Congress-Senate).
  • Rapporter in the following laws s:
    • Law of voluntary interruption of the pregnancy, 1985.
    • General law of Health, 1986.
    • Law of the Drugs, 1990.
    • Law of confined use, voluntary liberation and commercialization of microorganisms manipulated genetically, in order to prevent the possible risks to the human health and the environment, 1994.
    • Law of General Budgets of the State (sections Ministry of Sanidad and Insalud), every year from year 1,986 to 1.996.
    • Penal code (on articles related to the genetics and the attended reproduction)1993
  • Author and Rapporter of following legislative texts (approved): :
    1. Proposal not of law for the creation of a National Commission on Techniques of Assisted Reproduction (1986).
    2. Proposal not of law on regulation of the sanitary Centers that make the Techniques of Assisted Reproduction (1986).
    3. Proposal of Law on Techniques of Assisted Reproduction (Law 35/1988).
    4. Proposal of Law on use of embryos and human fetuses or their cells, weaves or organs (it includes genetic engineering). Law 42/88
    5. Proposal not of law of regulation of the profession of the laboratory technicians (1989).
    6. Proposal not of law of arrangement of the profession of technicians in radiology (1989).
    7. Proposal not of law of hiring by the CSIC of national investigators ad honorem of recognized prestige (1995).
    8. Proposal not of law to distribute knowledge of Bioethics in the different levels from education (1995).
    9. Proposal not of law for the creation of a Parliamentary Committee of Bioethics (1995). It was first in the history of the Spanish Parliament.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS and others

Awards and medals:

  • Medal and Credential of National Health Civil Order (1986).
  • Creativity Award of the Law Chamber of the Spanish Parliament (Antena3-radio, 1988).
  • Silver Medal of the Regional Government of the Principality of Asturias(1992).
  • Pro-Merit Medal of the Council of Europe, Mention as Honorary Member of Parliament (1997) .
  • Silver Medal of the Medical Association of Madrid (1998).
  • Plate in the building of the European Farmacopea (Meinau, France, 1994).
  • Prize (Plate) Finalist to Spanish political-sanitary Personality (1994, Edimsa).
  • Prize “Severo Ochoa” of Aula of Peace (2002).
  • Prizes of La Nueva España journal (2002), Televisión Gijón (2003), Conference Center (2004) and Golden "Woodshoe" of the Asturian Center of Seville (2004).
  • Honor President of the Fertility Association AFAI, Spain (1987).
  • Member of the Consultative Council of the Official Journal of the Spanish Society of Fertility (1998), of the Latin American Journal of Fertility and Human Reproduction and of the Writing Committee of the Journal TIEMPO (1999).
  • Member of the Advisory Council of BIOETHICS JOURNAL in Latinoamerica (Colombia, 2002), and of the Advisory Council of journal HUMANITAS Medical Humanities (2003).
  • Member of the Council of Sciences and Arts of the Principality of Asturias (2001).
  • Member of the Foundation “Foro Jovellanos” of Gijón (Mars 2005).