Montserrat Esquerda

Montserrat Esquerda is a Researcher and Coordinator of the Bioethics Research Group at the Borja Institute of Bioethics. With an active publication record extending into 2025, she maintains a significant presence in contemporary bioethics scholarship. Her work bridges theoretical bioethics with practical healthcare applications across multiple domains of medical practice.

Dr. Esquerda's research interests span bioethics, empathy measurement, burnout in healthcare professionals, primary health care ethics, vaccine hesitancy, end-of-life care, geriatric psychiatry, and the emerging field of AI ethics in healthcare. Her fingerprint analysis reveals strong connections to empathy in nursing, physician burnout, general practitioner ethics, cross-sectional study methodologies, primary medical care, and pediatric ethics.

Her recent publication trend shows remarkable productivity with 6 publications in 2025 alone, spanning diverse bioethics topics from euthanasia media representation in Spain to AI ethics frameworks and critical analyses of life fatigue concepts. These works appear in reputable journals including Cuadernos de bioetica, BMC Public Health, American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, and AI and Society.

With an h-index of 15 and 761 total citations, Dr. Esquerda demonstrates substantial scholarly impact in her field. Her research collaborations extend internationally, as evidenced by multi-country authorship on recent publications addressing European vaccine hesitancy and cross-cultural bioethics education.

As Coordinator of the Bioethics Research Group, she leads investigations at the intersection of medical practice, ethical theory, and societal implications of healthcare technologies. Her current focus appears to be expanding into digital health ethics while maintaining strong engagement with traditional bioethics domains like end-of-life care and professional burnout.