Pezi Veronica Mang

Project Title

Advance Care Planning in der Geburtshilfe: Eine qualitative Expertenbefragung zur Vorausplanung klinisch begleiteter Geburten

Research Interest

The project aims to analyse current practices of birth planning in Germany and to assess their normative compatibility with core principles of advance care planning, especially with regard to autonomy, decision-making, and professional responsibility. Methodologically, the project combines qualitative empirical research with a normative ethical analysis, thereby addressing a conceptual and empirical gap at the intersection of public health, medical ethics, and birth care.

Areas of interest
• Advance care planning and advance decision-making
• Decision-making in medical settings
• Autonomy and vulnerability
• Professional roles, power dynamics, and responsibility in birth care
• Qualitative methods in medical ethics and public health
• Coping with morally challenging situations in healthcare professions
• Abortion care and ethics (teaching)
• Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) (teaching)

 

Supervisors

Prof. Dr. Georg Marckmann
Dr. Katja Kühlmeyer

 

Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

10/2025 - present: Ph.D. candidate in Medical Research: Epidemiology & Public Health, LMU, Munich, Germany
MSc: 2020 –2022, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Public Health
BSc: 2017 –2020, Technische Universität München (TUM), Health Science
IMC-Nurse: 2013-2014, UK Regensburg (UKR)
Nurse: 2009-2012, Asklepios Bad Tölz

 

 

Publications

Mang, Pezi, et al. "Beteiligung der Eltern an der pränatalen Entscheidungsfindung bei schwerer fetaler Gesundheitsgefährdung–eine qualitative Studie mit betroffenen Eltern." Zeitschrift für Geburtshilfe und Neonatologie 227.03 (2023): P16-01.

Mang, P., Kühlmeyer, K., Beyer, M. F., Flemmer, A. W., & Schouten, E. S. (2022). End-of-life decision-making in neonatology (ENFoLDING): A project presentation of qualitative research in Germany. EACME Newsletter (European Association of Centres of Medical Ethics), April, 11–16. https://eacmeweb.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/EACME-Newsletter-April-25-2022-4.pdf

Beyer, M. F., Kuehlmeyer, K., Mang, P., Flemmer, A. W., Führer, M., Marckmann, G., de Vos, M., & Schouten, E. S. (2023). “We Absolutely Had the Impression That It Was Our Decision”—A Qualitative Study with Parents of Critically Ill Infants Who Participated in End-of-Life Decision Making. Children, 10(1), 46. https://doi.org/10.3390/children10010046

Rodríguez-Molina, D., Mang, P., Schmitt, H. et al. Do wastewater treatment plants increase antibiotic resistant bacteria or genes in the environment? Protocol for a systematic review. Syst Rev 8, 304 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-019-1236-9