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Professor
Miles Little
Miles Little
is Emeritus Professor of Surgery, University
of
Sydney. Born Sydney, Australia, 1933, he trained in surgery at Royal
Prince Alfred Hospital, and the University of Glasgow under Sir Andrew
Kay. He was Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor in Surgery,
University of Sydney, 1967-78 and Foundation Professor of Surgery,
University of Sydney at Westmead Hospital, 1977-96. He was Co-founder
of the World Association of Hepatic, Pancreatic and Biliary Surgeons,
1987, and its first President 1987-89. He
became Founding Director, Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in
Medicine, Department of Surgery, University of Sydney, in 1995, and
remained as Director until July 2003. He was a Board member of the
Westmead Hospital Research Foundation until 1997. He has received
various medals and prizes awarded by the Royal Australasian College of
Surgeons, University of Bologna, Göteborg Medical Society
(Sweden), Sun Yat Sen Medical University, Chinese Medical Association,
Royal College of Surgeons of Thailand, and the University of Hong Kong.
He has over 300 publications in the medical literature, mostly on
vascular disease, abdominal surgery, philosophy of medicine and ethics.
His publications include: Two books on surgery of liver trauma and
amputations; Round Trip
(Melbourne: Melbourne University Press,
1977), poetry; Humane Medicine
(Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1995); Surviving
Survival: Life After Cancer
(Marrickville: Choice Books, 2001), with Christopher F C Jordens, Kim
Paul, Emma-Jane Sayers; poems in Quadrant, Southerly, Poetry
Australia, Meanjin, The Australian.
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Associate
Professor Ian Kerridge
Ian Kerridge trained in medicine at the University
of Newcastle, philosophy at the Universities of Sydney, Newcastle and
Cambridge, and haematopoietic stem cell transplantation at the Royal
Free Hospital, London. He is Director and Associate Professor in
Bioethics at the Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine at
the University of Sydney and Staff Haematologist/Bone Marrow Transplant
physician at Westmead Hospital, Sydney. Ian was previously Director of
the Clinical Unit in Ethics and Health Law at the University of
Newcastle. He has published widely in haematology and ethics and is the
author of three textbooks, most recently Ethics
and Law for the Health Professions (Federation Press, 2005) He is
Vice-President of the Australasian Bioethics
Association, an Inaugural member of UniSUN (a
collaborative group of NSW academics with expertise in ethics, values
and health law) and a member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Medical Ethics, the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry,
and Illness: A Journal of Personal Experience. His current research
interests in ethics include the philosophy of medicine, stem cells and
tissue engineering, end-of-life care, the experience of illness and
survival following bone marrow transplantation, public health ethics,
donor issues in transplantation, moral psychology, advance care
planning and the pharmaceutical industry.
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Chris Jordens is a lecturer at the Centre for
Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine. He is also clinical research
fellow in an NHMRC
Centre for Clinical Research Excellence that focuses on infection
control and bioethical issues in haematological malignancies. Chris has
degrees in philosophy and public health, and a PhD which forms part of
the Centre’s ongoing research program. He co-edits the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry
and has co-authored numerous papers with his colleagues at the centre,
as well as a book.
He co-edited a collection
of papers by Miles Little, and he co-edits the Centre’s annual seminars
and its occasional
monographs series. Chris has an ongoing interest in
interdisciplinary research, particularly the application of Systemic
Functional Linguistics to research in bioethics and discourse in the
health professions. He is currently an investigator on qualitative
studies into autologous bone marrow transplantation and advanced
ovarian cancer.
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Karolyn White
Karolyn White
is a registered nurse and completed an Arts Degree at Macquarie
University, majoring in politics
and anthropology. She gained her Masters (Hons) in 1998.
Her thesis explored the tension between professionalisation and
vocational aspects of nursing care. She is currently a PhD
candidate at The University of Sydney, investigating ethical issues in
prisons.
Karolyn has taught ethics and bioethics to health care professionals
since 1988. She currently
teaches health care ethics to students in the Schools/Faculties of
Medical Radiation Sciences, Occupational and Leisure Sciences,
Physiotherapy, Biomedical Science, medicine and nurses at both
undergraduate and post- graduate levels in both on and offshore
programs.
Her research interests include research ethics and how the environment
may modify clinician’s presumptive ethical obligations.
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Dr
Stacy
Carter
Stacy Carter joined the Centre in 2006 as a postdoctoral research fellow. She has a Masters (Honours) and a PhD in public health, as well as a Bachelor of Applied Science in speech pathology. She worked as a speech pathologist in NSW hospitals from 1991 to 1997 before moving into research. Stacy is passionate about qualitative research. Her work focuses on personal experience, particularly the experience of health and illness, and on qualitative research epistemology, methodology and method. Her previous research explored the conduct of the Australian tobacco industry, people's constructions of the tobacco industry and the tobacco control movement, and the experience of being a smoker. Stacy has published and presented her research widely, both nationally and internationally. She co-convenes the Qualitative Health Research Collaboration, a group that provides support and continuing education for qualitative researchers from many organisations and disciplines.
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