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Associate Professor
Jill GordonJill Gordon
is Director of the Centre for Medical Humanities in the
Faculty of Arts at the University of Sydney. Previously Head
of the Department of Medical Education and Associate Dean for
Education in the Faculty of Medicine, Jill's interest in
undergraduate and postgraduate education began at the University of
Newcastle, which pioneered a problem-based learning medical
curriculum in the '70s and '80s, and continued into general practice
training for the Royal Australian College of General
Practitioners. She was Director of General
Practice
Training in NSW from 1988 to
1992. From 1993 to 1996 she chaired the Postgraduate Medical
Council, which is responsible for standards and guidelines for
training junior doctors in NSW. She joined the Faculty of
Medicine at the University of Sydney in 1994, moving to Arts in
2003. Jill is a principal in a general practice in Crows Nest,
with a special clinical interest in psychotherapy.
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Associate
Professor Merrilyn Walton
Merrilyn Walton is an A/Professor
of Ethical Practice, Faculty of Medicine,
University of
Sydney. Prior to this appointment Merrilyn was the founding
Commissioner for the Health Care Complaints Commission. For 15 years
she was responsible for administering the Health Care Complaints
Act. Merrilyn has convened many Ministerial Inquiries such as the
Inquiry into Psychiatric Hospitals in NSW and the Inquiry into
Cosmetic Surgery. She has numerous publications in health medical
and law journals involving issues relating to regulation, ethical
practice, standards of care, patient rights. She is the author of 2
books The Trouble with Medicine; preserving the trust between
patients and doctors. (Allen and Unwin 1998) and Wellbeing:
how to get the best treatment form your doctor (Pluto Press
2002). She is currently writing a book on quality and safety with
Professor Bill Runciman and Professor Alan Merry. Merrilyn has
contributed chapters in many other publications.
Merrilyn is Chair of the
Professional and Personal Development Theme in the Graduate Medical
Program at Sydney
University and teaches medical students and clinicians about
ethical practice and quality and safety. Her research interests
include improving training and education of junior doctors using a
safety framework. Merrilyn is also the Director of a national
project established by the Australian Council on Quality and Safety
to develop national patient safety educational competencies for the
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Dr Rachel Ankeny
Rachel
Ankeny is an Associate Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Values,
Ethics and the Law in Medicine. She is currently a Senior Lecturer
in the School of History and Politics at the University
of Adelaide. She joined the History and Philosophy of Science Unit at the
University of Sydney in July 2000 and is Director and Senior
Lecturer in the Unit. Before this she was the Class of '43 Assistant
Professor of Philosophy and Science at Connecticut College. She is
on study leave for the first half of 2004, as a senior fellow at the
Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. She also spent the
1999-2000 Academic Year as a Research Fellow at Princeton
University, in the Shelby Cullom Davis Centre for Historical
Studies. Rachel gained her B.A in liberal arts (philosophy and
mathematics) from St John's College, Santa Fe, and Master's degrees
in Medical Ethics and Philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh.
Her PhD, also from Pittsburgh, was in the History and Philosophy of
Science.
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Professor Kathleen
Montgomery
Kathleen Montgomery
is Professor of Organizations and Chair, Department of Management,
in the Anderson Graduate School of Management at the University of
California, Riverside. She earned her PhD in sociology from
New York University and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at
UCLA's Department of Sociology and School of Medicine. Professor
Montgomery is internationally recognized for her research on health
care professions and organizations, which she has published in
leading peer-reviewed journals in sociology, medicine, and
management. Her recent work examines trust and integrity, including
the ethical issues that arise from conflicting stakeholder demands
in health care.
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Dr Michael
SelgelidMichael J. Selgelid holds a joint appointment,
as Senior Research Fellow, between the Centre for Applied Philosophy and
Public Ethics (CAPPE) and the Menzies Centre for Health Policy
at The Australian National University (ANU). He is also a
founding member and Executive Board Member of the new National Centre for
Biosecurity at ANU. He was previously the Sesquicentenary
Lecturer in Bioethics in the Unit for History and Philosophy of
Science and the Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine
(VELIM) at the University of Sydney, where he coordinated the
proposal and development of the successful new Postgraduate Program
in Bioethics. He has also held posts in the Division of
Bioethics and Department of Philosophy at the University of the
Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Michael earned a PhD and MA in Philosophy at the University of
California, San Diego and a BSE in Biomedical Engineering at Duke
University. He completed an undergraduate Philosophy
curriculum at the University of California, Irvine. His
research primarily focuses on the history of, and ethical issues
associated with, infectious disease and genetics. He is
especially interested in issues associated with emerging infectious
diseases, pandemic planning, the health care situation in developing
countries, intellectual property rights in pharmaceuticals, drug
resistance, and bioterrorism; and he has a longstanding interest in
the topic of eugenics.
During much of 2006 he was the Principal Researcher for a CAPPE
consultancy with the Commonwealth Department of Prime Minister and
Cabinet on "Ethical and Philosophical Aspects of the Dual-Use
Dilemma in the Biological Sciences"; and he recently co-edited Ethics
and Infectious Disease (Blackwell, 2006). A list of
his publications is available here.
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Dr Rob Irvine
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Associate Professor Henry
KilhamHenry Kilham has
spent most of his working life at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for
Children (The Children's Hospital at Camperdown, then Westmead).
Following his appointment as a staff specialist in 1972, he has
worked continuously as a clinician-teacher in general paediatrics
and paediatric respiratory medicine. He has also developed and
worked in new areas, as the Hospital's first director of intensive
care (1976-89), the first physician-in-charge of the NSW Poisons
Centre (1976-2004) and the first head of the Hospital's pain unit
(1990-2000). He has edited the Children's Hospital Handbook since
1972, and is currently chairman of the Hospital's Drug Committee. He
is an associate professor of the University of Sydney.
Henry
was involved in some of NHMRC's earliest forays into human ethical
dilemmas, as a member of that organisation during the 70s and 80s.
He completed the Monash graduate diploma in Bioethics in 2003. Over
the past 6 years he has worked with David Isaacs in organising
clinical ethics activities within the Hospital. Henry has a wide
variety of interests away from medicine. Married to Gaye, he has
four children and four grandchildren. He has some skills in
woodworking, photography and motor mechanics and enjoys sailing,
bushwalking, and travel.
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Professor David IsaacsDavid Isaacs is one of identical
twin sons of a research scientist father and a child psychiatrist
mother. Born in London, he studied medicine at Cambridge,
paediatrics in London and Sydney, and did the research for his MD
thesis on recurrent respiratory infections in children at Northwick
Park Hospital. He moved between Royal Alexandra Hospital for
Children (RAHC) in Sydney and Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Hackney.
For 5 years he trained in paediatric infectious diseases in Oxford,
at the John Radcliffe Hospital and Oxford University.
He
moved to Sydney in 1989 with his wife, Carmel, and 4 children, to
take up a new position as Head of Immunology & Infectious
Diseases at the Children's Hospital at Camperdown, which has now
moved to Westmead. He is a Clinical Professor at the University of
Sydney.
His major clinical and research work is in the field
of paediatric infections, mainly neonatal infections, and
immunisation. His other medical areas of interest are bio-ethics,
vaccine safety, medical education and medical humour. In 2002, he
passed the Graduate Diploma in Bioethics at Monash University, and
has been involved in teaching and practising bioethics since then.
He has published 15 papers on ethical issues.
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Professor Lyn GilbertLyn Gilbert is Director of Centre for
Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Laboratory Service (CIDMLS)
and Centre
for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Public Health (CIDMPH).
After training in clinical infectious diseases and microbiology in
Melbourne and in the UK she was appointed Senior lecturer in
Microbiology, University of Melbourne in 1977 Director of
Microbiology, Royal Women's Hospital Melbourne in 1979 and
Director of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Royal Children's
Hospital in 1984. Lyn was appointed to the position of Director
CIDMLS in 1991.
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Dr Hans PolsHans
Pols arrived at the University of Sydney in July 2002 and
is currently director of the Unit for History and Philosophy of
Science. His main interests are the history of medicine, in
particular the history of psychiatry, as well as the history of
psychology and the social sciences. Currently, he is involved in a
research project on the history of conceptualisations of mental
break-down or war neurosis during World War II in the American,
British, and Australian armed forces, for which he received a
Discovery Grant of the Australian Research Council (War, Trauma
and Rehabilitation: The Army, Psychiatry and World War II. He is
also engaged in a research project on the development of medicine in
Indonesia from colonial to modern times (which focuses on
psychiatry, public health initiatives, tropical medicine, and the
organisation of medical education).
Hans Pols finished his dissertation on the history of the
American mental hygiene movement at the University of Pennsylvania
in 1997 and has held postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard University,
the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin) and the
Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research at
Rutgers University. He is actively involved in the Australian and
New Zealand Society for the History of Medicine as the editor of the
journal of this society, Health and History (which now also
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Associate Professor Paul McNeill
Paul McNeill is the author of The Ethics and
Politics of Human Experimentation, (Cambridge University Press
1993), co-author of Human Research Ethics Handbook (NHMRC
2002), and journal articles on comparative ethics, bioethics,
research ethics, clinical ethics and the relationship between the
medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry. He is currently
working on a book on Friedrich Nietzsche and ethics, and a computer
based teaching program on 'Ethics Perspectives', and is researching
within comparative ethics: focusing on philosophy and practices
within Buddhism and Yoga.
He is Associate Professor of Ethics and Law in Medicine in at the
University of New South Wales where he has taught ethics and health
law to medical students for 15 years. He was President of the
7th World Congress of Bioethics (November 2004), and
President of the Australasian Bioethics Association (2000-2003) and
is a member of various international committees including the Board
of the International Association of Bioethics, the Committee on
Universal Rights of Patients, and Global Lawyers & Physicians
Committee.
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Dr David Smith
David Smith is a general practitioner who has
worked in the Lake Macquarie region of NSW for over 20 years. He is
the director of the ethics and corporate governance program of the
Hunter Urban Division of General Practice, and has been an active
member of that organization since its inception. He is also a
conjoint senior lecturer in the Discipline of Ethics and Health Law
at the University of Newcastle. Prior to his entry into general
medical practice he spent a decade conducting epidemiological
research in Papua New Guinea. He has also had extensive experience
in psychiatry. His current interests are of processes in clinical
ethics, issues of social justice generally and of quality and equity
in the provision of health care in particular.
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Dr Paul Cheung
Paul Cheung received training in psychology at
the undergraduate level at the University of New South Wales and
linguistics at the doctoral level at Macquarie University. His major
research interests revolve around qualitative and quantitative
assessments of the experience of chronic illness and the concurrent
use of technological interventions. Related interests that are
closely linked to ethics and bioethics include the economics, law
and sociology of health technology, particularly where emerging
disease categories or interventions are concerned; body
modifications in real life and creative works; human agency in
sexuality and well-being, and communication in and about healthcare,
both human and computer-mediated.
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Wendy Hu
Wendy Hu is Senior Lecturer in
Medical Education at Western Clinical School, Westmead Hospital.
Prior to this appointment she completed an NHMRC supported PhD
jointly supervised through VELiM and the Children's Hospital at
Westmead on risk discourses and uncertainty in medicine. Her
clinical experience is in general practice and child health, and she
holds a Masters in Health Administration (UNSW), and Diploma of
Paediatrics (UNSW) and is a Fellow of the Royal Australian
College of General Practitioners. Wendy has a long standing interest
in clinical reasoning, the basis of medical knowledge and
constructions of illness. Her current research interests include
informal learning and the acquisition of medical professionalism,
healthcare communication, qualitative and mixed method approaches to
research.
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Professor Brian Hurwitz
Brain Hurwitz holds the D'Oyly Carte Chair of Medicine and the Arts at
King's College University of London and is a General Practitioner
who has practised in the same inner London practice for 22 years.
His research encompasses clinical medicine and narrative studies
in relation to medical practice, ethics, law and the literary form
of case reports, and he collaborates with visual and literary
artists and co-convenes (together with Neil Vickers) the UK's first
master's programme in Literature and Medicine. He
also works with the BBC World Service Department of Drama and is a
co-ordinator of ACUME-2, a European Thematic Network examining
interfaces between arts, humanities and the sciences.
His books include: Clinical Guidelines and the Law (1998),
Narrative-Based Medicine: Dialogue and Discourse in Clinical
Practice (with P Greenhalgh (1998) now translated into Italian,
German and Japanese editions and Narrative Research In Health and
Illness (with P Greenhalgh and V Skultans (2004) which is currently
being translated into Japanese. He is also the series editor of Medical Ethics -
a Living Literature, three bioethical novels by Hazel McHaffie:
Vacant Possession, Paternity, Double Trouble (2005).
He has lectured in Australia, Hong Kong and the USA and prior to
his current post was Professor of Primary Health and General
Practice at Imperial College London, where he was Head of
Department, and conducted randomised controlled trials of new
strategies for the care of chronic disease in community settings,
systematic reviews and meta-analyses. He has published over
100 papers in peer review medical journals and his other books
include NICE, CHI and the NHS Reforms: Enabling Excellence or
Imposing Control? with Miles A and Hampton J R (2000), Clinical
Governance with Miles A and Hill A (2001), and Key Advances in the
Care of Parkinson's Disease with Findley L and Miles A (2004). From
2004-06, he was a member of the Parkinson's Disease Guideline
Development Group of the National Collaborating Centre for Chronic
Conditions (for NICE UK), which drafted Parkinson's disease:
National clinical guideline for diagnosis and management in primary
and secondary care London, Royal College of Physicians 2006. He is
currently working on a volume with Dr Paquita de Zulueta entitled,
Everyday Ethics for GPs, and is co-editing Medical Errors and
Patient Safety with Professor Aziz Sheikh. His current post is
attached to both the Schools of Humanities and Medicine at King's
College London.
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