I’m passionate about expanding access to surgery and about the philosophy that underpins global health efforts. The publications below reflect some of my philosophical and clinical interests.

*This is not a comprehensive CV. For a more complete record of publications and presentations please visit my ResearchGate profile https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Karel-Bart-Celie.

The importance of global bioethics to paediatric health care

The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, Feb. 2024
Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352464223003176?dgcid=author

The cross-leg free flap: a systematic review of the literature

Microsurgery, Feb. 2024
Link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/micr.31144

Burn Patient Perspectives on Disability Weights and the Philosophy of Disability:
A Gap in the Literature

European Burn Journal, Nov. 2023
Link: https://www.mdpi.com/2673-1991/4/4/37

Communicating conviction: a pilot study of patient perspectives on guidance during medical decision-making in the United States

Clinical Ethics, Nov. 2023
Link: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14777509231210770

Bearing the mark of pain: mystery in medicine

Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine — May 2023
Link: https://peh-med.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13010-023-00134-8

Housestaff Unionization in the United States and our Duties to Each Other

Journal of Medical Ethics Blog — Feb. 2023
Link: https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2023/02/08/housestaff-unionization-in-the-united-states-and-our-duties-to-each-other/

Toxic Shock Syndrome after Surgery: Case Presentation and Systematic Review of the Literature

PRS Global Open — May 2020
Link:https://journals.lww.com/prsgo/fulltext/2020/05000/toxic_shock_syndrome_after_surgery__case.33.aspx

Figure I generated using PyMol!

Rapidly Progressive Multisutural Craniosynostosis in a Patient With Jackson-Weiss Syndrome and a De Novo FGFR2 Pathogenic Variant

The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal — May 2019
Link: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1055665619851642

Respect for personhood: Concrete implications of a philosophical misunderstanding

Clinical Ethics — May 2019
Link:https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1477750919851057