Committee Members

	President Malcolm 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 was in general medical practice for over thirty years. He chairs UQ's Human Experimentation Ethical Review Committee, and is a member of the Queensland Health Clinical Ethics Committee and the AMAQ Ethics Committee. He is a director of the Postgraduate Medical Council of Queensland, and a member of the Health Committee and the Professional Conduct Review Panel of the Queensland Board of the Medical Board of Australia. He is member of the editorial boards of four journals in bioethics, medical law and medical education, and has published nationally and internationally in philosophy of medicine, bioethics, medical ethics, health law, and medical education. His current research interests include medical professionalism and regulation, education in professionalism, ethics and law at the end-of-life, the ethics-law interface, methodology in bioethics, evidence-based medicine and regulation of complementary medicine
	Vice President Cameron Stewart was a board member of the Australian and New Zealand Institute of Health Law & Ethics, and currently is a Founding Member of the Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law. Cameron is an Asscoiate Professor in Law at University of Sydney, and has degreees in economics, law and jurisprudence. He has worked in the Supreme Court of New South Wales and has practiced commercial law at Phillips Fox Lawyers. Cameron's doctorate from University of Sydney examined end-of-life decision making, which is still his main area of research. He is also interested in the history of Australian property law. Cameron has worked on a number of projects for NSW Health, the NSW Guardianship Tribunal, the Office of the Public Guardian, and other government departments.
	Secretary Jean Murray was a medical scientist before becoming a government policy adviser. As the Principal Consultant, Ethico-Legal Reform for the South Australian Department of Health, her role involved developing and reviewing ethically complex policy and legislation and representing the SA government on national advisory groups in areas such as genetics, privacy, autopsies, organ donation, human cloning and embryo research. Dr Murray is currently a consultant bioethics policy adviser and lectures post-graduate students in health policy at Flinders University. She has a Master of Health Management and a Doctorate in Public Health, and has been a Director on state and national health and education boards.
	Treasurer Camilla Scanlan was Treasurer and Membership Officer of the Australasian Bioethics Association, and a member of Australian and New Zealand Institute of Health Law & Ethics. Camilla has degress in Medical Technology, Science, an MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management (awarded jointly from UNSW and SydU) and a Master of Health Law from University of Sydney. Camilla is currrently undertaking her PhD examining the legal and ethical limitations surrounding consent to high-risk medical procedures.
	Rachel A. Ankeny has a BA in Liberal Arts, and MA degrees in Philosophy, in Bioethics, and in Gastronomy, and a PhD in the History and Philosophy of Science. She is Associate Professor of History at the University of Adelaide (2006-present); she previously was director and lecturer/senior lecturer in the Unit for History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney (2000-6). She also has an honorary appointment at the Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine at the University of Sydney. Her research in bioethics examines ethical and policy issues in genetics, reproduction, women's health, embryo and stem cell research, and food production and consumption, among other topics. She was a co-investigator on an ARC Discovery Project grant entitled "Big-Picture Bioethics: Policy Making and Liberal Democracy" (2005-9), as well as on a NSW Cancer Council grant entitled “Toward a Best Practice of Emerging Technologies: PGD and HLA Typing for Paediatric Transplantation” (2007-10) and several recent NHMRC grants. Rachel serves as a member of the Gene Technology Ethics and Community Committee for the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator of the Commonwealth of Australia and as Treasurer for the International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (FAB).
	Andrew Crowden has been interested in research ethics for many years. His current appointment is at the Mater Medical Research Institute in Brisbane where he is Chairperson of Mater Health Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC) and a member of the Clinical Ethics Committee. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor in association with the discipline of Medical Ethics, Law and Professional Practice in the School of Medicine and teaches Advanced Topics in Ethics in the School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Queensland. He has a continuing academic role as a researcher and chairperson of the Health Ethics Advisory Group (HEAG) in the Rural Health Academic Centre in the Melbourne Medical School at The University of Melbourne. Andrew is an active member of NHMRC’s HoMER Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Research sub-committee and the HoMER Monitoring sub-committee. He has been a member of the Victorian Government Consultative Council for Human Research Ethics, Chairperson of Austin Health HREC, Bioethicist on NorthEast Health Wangaratta HREC, the appointed Ethicist on the South Australian Human Research sub-Committee, Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences Dean’s Nominee to Deakin University HREC, and a member of Flinders University’s Mental Health Research Ethics Committee.
	Lynn Gillam is a bioethicist with particular interests in clinical ethics, especially in paediatrics, genetics, research ethics and ethics education. Lynn is the Academic Director of the Children’s Bioethics Centre, an initiative of the Royal Children’s Hospital, in partnership with the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and the University of Melbourne. She holds positions at all three institutions. As part of this role, she is the Clinical Ethicist at the Royal Children’s Hospital. At the University of Melbourne, Lynn is Associate Professor in Health Ethics at the Centre for Health and Society, in the Melbourne School of Population Health, where she teaches health ethics in the medical curriculum and the postgraduate social health program

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	Ian Kerridge 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. He has published widely in ethics and medicine/haematology and is the author of over 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals and five textbooks of ethics, most recently Ethics and Law for the Health Professions (Federation Press, 2009) He is Chair of the Australian Bone Marrow Donor Registry Ethics Committee and a member of the NSW Health Department’s Clinical Ethics Advisory Panel.. His current research interests include the philosophy of medicine, stem cells, end-of-life care, the experience of illness and survival, synthetic genomics, identity formation in illness, public health ethics, research ethics, donor issues in transplantation, publication ethics and the pharmaceutical industry
	Roger Magnusson is Professor of Health Law & Governance at Sydney Law School. He has Arts/Law degrees from the Australian National University (1988), and a PhD in law (1994) and a Graduate Diploma in Managing Development (2007) from the University of Melbourne. His research interests are in health law, policy and bioethics, and in public health law and governance, and health development. During the mid 1990s he held a Commonwealth-funded AIDS Postdoctoral Research Fellowship and wrote extensively on legal and policy issues associated with HIV/AIDS and infectious diseases. In 2002 he published Angels of Death: Exploring the Euthanasia Underground (Melbourne University Press; Yale University Press) which reported on the practice of “underground” physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia among health professionals working in HIV/AIDS health care in Australian cities and in San Francisco. Since 2003 Roger has been a member of the Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Advisory Committee (TSEAC) of the NHMRC, which advises the Commonwealth Government on the risks posed by Creutzfeldt Jakob disease and variant CJD (the human equivalent of “mad cow disease”). Amongst other roles he has served as rapporteur for the first and second international consultations on public health law co-hosted by the World Health Organisation, and International Development Law Organisation. Roger’s current research is focused on the opportunities for law and regulation in the prevention of chronic, non-communicable diseases, including those caused by tobacco use and obesity
	Eleanor Milligan established the Princess Alexandra Clinical Ethics Service in 2008, and currently works as a Clinical Ethicist there. She is also the Academic Lead for the Ethics and Professionalism stream of the MBBS at Griffith University School of Medicine. She brings a broad multidisciplinary background in bioscience, education and philosophy to these roles. Eleanor's research interests are in clinical ethics, medical education and medical humanities
	Neil Pickering is a Senior Lecturer at the Bioethics Centre at the University of Otago. Neil was on the executive committee of the ABA, has helped organise two ABA conferences, and has been involved in the development of the JBI from its beginnings. He is on the New Zealand Health Research Council Ethics Committee (due to finish his term in 2010). His research interests are many and far-flung, but a theme is the intersection of science (particularly medicine) and the human being. He is author of The Metaphor of Mental Illness (OUP, 2006) in which he proves to his own satisfaction that he is right and everyone else is wrong on this topic.
	Bernadette Richards began her professional life as an English and Drama teacher, then moved on to the RAAF where she served as an Education Officer for many years. Along the way, she studied law and decided to combine her interests in education and the law and move into an academic role. Bernadette has worked at the University of Adelaide for a number of years and her research centres on the nexus of ethics and the law in the context of medical treatment, with particular emphasis on the question of consent to medical treatment. Bernadette is an active member of the Ethics Centre of South Australia and is currently the holder of an Australian Research Discovery Grant (along with other members of the Ethics Centre) entitled: 'Consent in the void: moral, legal and community values in decisions about human biological donations.' Bernadette currently serves on the University Human Research Ethics Committee and is a member of the South Australian Council on Reproductive Technology.