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Committee Members

President

Mal Parker is Associate Professor of Medical Ethics in the School of Medicine, University of Queensland (UQ), and teaches ethics, law & professional issues in the MBBS program. He has qualifications in medicine, philosophy and health law, and has been in general practice for thirty years. He is a foundation member of the ABA, and is a board member of the Australian and New Zealand Institute of Health Law & Ethics. He chairs UQ's Human Experimentation Ethical Review Committee, and is a member of the Queensland Health Ethics Advisory Committee and the AMAQ Ethics Committee. He has published nationally and internationally in philosophy of medicine, bioethics, medical ethics, health law, and medical education. Current research interests include medical professionalism, end-of-life decisions, philosophy of psychiatry, principlism and fundamentalism, evidence-based medicine and regulation of complementary medicine. He became an academic against the financial advice of Peter Singer, because he knew the pay would be better than in general practice, in which he continues to work part-time to augment his academic salary.

Vice-President

Rachel Ankeny is an Associate Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine. 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.

Committee Members

Gail Tulloch is an adjunct fellow in the Quality of Life Research Unit in the Centre for Public Culture and Ideas. She is a philosopher whose current research interests are in bioethics and animal ethics. She has published a book on John Stuart Mill - 'Mill and Sexual Equality' - and , in 2005, on euthanasia - 'Euthanasia - Choice and Death'. She is working on a research project "Learning to Care: Education for Compassion", funded by the Voiceless Foundation. She is a member of the Queensland Health Ethics Advisory Committee, Griffith University Research Ethics Committee, and Griffith University Animal Ethics Committee.

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.

Lynley Anderson

Monika Clark-Grill trained in medicine at the Universities of Graz in Austria and Heidelberg, Germany, where she completed her doctorate. She immigrated to New Zealand in 1984 to work here as a General Medical Practitioner and Homeopath. In 2005 she graduated with a PhD in Bioethics. Currently lecturing at the Bioethics Centre of the University of Otago, Dunedin, she teaches medical ethics to undergraduates. She also lectures on the Dunedin School of Medicine Professional Development Course and is a mentor for clinical medical students. Research interests include the philosophy of medicine and the place of subjectivity in medical research and practice; ethical issues in relation to practice and research of complementary and alternative medicines; clinical ethics, especially the relationship between bioethical theory and a patient-centered practice; ethics education and professional development for health care practitioners.

Neil Pickering is a lecturer in the Bioethics Centre of the University of Otago, Dunedin where he teaches medical students and the Centre's masters students. Neil says "My first academic love was English Literature, but I became interested in Bioethics later. I did a Masters and then a PhD in Philosophy and Health Care at University of Wales Swansea. My main interests are in the philosophy of medicine, particularly related to questions about the nature of disease (my PhD dissertation was on the notion of mental illness). I would say that in general my interests are conceptual as much as ethical. However the Eng. Lit. connection has never altogether been lost: I've written short pieces on metaphor in medical science and on literature as a means of teaching ethics to medical students. Outside the academic world, my main activities are as a percussionist for various orchestras and bands in Dunedin, and I am now incompetent on a vast array of instruments from Timpani to triangle."

Peter Saul is a senior intensive care specialist in the adult and paediatric ICU at John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle. He has taught clinical ethics to undergraduates in Newcastle since 1996, and was a founder member, now director, of the Clinical Unit in Ethics and Health Law. Peter was for four years Chair of the Hunter Area Clinical Ethics Committee, and is now Director of the NSW Respecting Patient Choices Project. He has been on steering committees for end of life decision making and advance care directive development with the NSW Department of Health, and with the NHMRC on persistent vegetative state guidelines. His research interests centre on the tasks of clinical ethics, particularly in the area of end of life decision making.