Keynote Speakers
Dr David Bromell David Bromell is a Principal Advisor in the Ministry of Social Development. He is a graduate of the University of Otago (PhD, Systematic Theology, 1990) and has been a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies, Victoria University of Wellington (2007) and the Centre for Theology and Public Issues, University of Otago (2011). Before joining the public service in 2003, he was Superintendent of the Christchurch Methodist Mission. His work at the Ministry of Social Development has focused on cross-sectoral, strategic policy development; population issues, including NZ Positive Ageing Strategy online reporting ( http://positiveageing.msd.govt.nz ); and capability building in the policy advice role.
His recent publications have focused on population diversity and social cohesion, economic inequality, and public sector ethics: A changing population, changing identities: The Crown-Maori relationship in 50 years' time? (with Paul Callister, 2011) The public servant as analyst, adviser, and advocate (2010) Income inequality and the economy of ideas (2010) Diversity and democracy (2009) Recognition, redistribution and democratic inclusion (2009) Ethnicity, identity and public policy: Critical perspectives on multiculturalism (2008).
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Prof Susan Dodds Professor Susan Dodds is Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tasmania. Susan’s research focuses on the intersections of ethics and social and political philosophy: addressing issues such as the ethical justification of property rights, development of public policy on contested issues in bioethics, the social and ethical significance of novel medical technologies, and the relationships among selfhood, agency and personal autonomy. She currently holds an ARC Discovery grants with Catriona Mackenzie and Wendy Rogers on “Vulnerability, Autonomy and Justice” DP11012272 and is a CI within the Australian Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science (CE0561616 2005-2013), leading a research program on the social and ethical significance of developments in medical bionics.
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Professor Robin Gauld Robin Gauld is Associate Professor of Health Policy in the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand and Director of the Centre for Health Systems that spans the Otago Medical and Business schools. He is a Senior Fellow at the Boston University Health Policy Institute, and was a Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow in 2008-09 working with colleagues from Boston University and Harvard University. Current research interests include comparative health policy, health system and quality improvement, clinical governance, primary care, population based health funding formulas, and health information technology. He has authored over 75 peer-reviewed journal articles and several books and chapters. His book The New Health Policy (Open University Press, 2009) was awarded First Prize in the Health and Social Care category at the 2010 British Medical Association Medical Book Awards. Other recent books include Revolving Doors: New Zealand’s Health Reforms – the Continuing Saga (Institute of Policy Studies and Health Services Research Centre, 2009), The Age of Supported Independence co-authored with Beatrice Hale and Patrick Barrett (Springer, 2010), Health Care Systems in Asia and Europe co-edited with Christian Aspalter and Uchida Yasuo (Routledge, 2011) and the forthcoming Democratic Governance and Health co-authored with Miriam Laugesen (Otago University Press, 2012). Gauld has a Ph.D. in public administration from the University of Hong Kong, and a master’s degree with distinction and first class honours degree from Victoria University of Wellington. |
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A/Prof Colin Gavaghan Colin Gavaghan is the New Zealand Law Foundation Director in Emerging Technologies, and an associate professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Otago, having recently joined from the University of Glasgow. He has published extensively on a range of subjects, including legal and ethical questions raised by reproductive and genetic technologies, end of life issues and general medico-legal matters. He is particularly interested in questions of justice in access to emerging technologies, and in questions of personal identity raised by them.
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Prof Grant Gillett MBChB (equivalent to MD); MSc(Psychology); D.Phil (Oxon); FRACS (equivalent to Board Certification in Neurosurgery); FRS NZ. Grant Gillett is a Professor of Medical Ethics at the Bioethics Centre, Division of Health Sciences, University of Otago. He has a D.Phil in Philosophy from Oxford University and is author of The Mind and its Discontents (1999), Bioethics in the clinic: Hippocratic reflections (2004) and over 200 articles in philosophy, medical ethics, and philosophy of psychiatry. His latest book is Subjectivity and Being Somebody: human identity and neuroethics. |
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Prof Gareth Jones Gareth Jones is Director of the Bioethics Centre and Professor of Anatomy at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, where he was Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic and International) from 2005-2009. Recent books include, Clones: The Clowns of Technology? (Paternoster, 2001), Designers of the Future (Monarch, 2005), Bioethics (ATF Press, 2007) and Speaking for the Dead: The Human Body in Biology and Medicine (with Maja Whitaker, Ashgate, 2009). He is editor with John Elford of A Tangled Web: Medicine and Theology in Dialogue (Peter Lang, 2009), and A Glass Darkly: Medicine and Theology in Further Dialogue (Peter Lang, 2010).
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Dr MaryLou Harrigan Dr. MaryLou Harrigan is a health care consultant and educator. She received a BSN and MCEd from the University of Saskatchewan and a Doctor of Education from Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada (entitled Leadership Challenges in Canadian Health Care: Exploring Exemplary Professionalism under the Malaise of Modernity). Her research interests include leadership, knowledge transfer and the ethical issues of aging, personhood and decision-making. Her work has been published by Health Canada and the Canadian Medical Association. Recent projects include the development of a British Columbia Provincial Dementia Education Framework and a report on elder abuse and dementia for the Alzheimer Society of Canada. She co-authored a chapter with Grant Gillett: Hunting good will in the wilderness. In D. O’Connor & B. Purves (Eds.). Decision-making, Personhood and Dementia: Exploring the Interface. London, UK: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
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Dr Barry Smith Of Te Rarawa and Ngati Kahu descent, Barry Smith is a Population Health Analyst in the Planning and Funding Division of the Lakes District Health Board in Rotorua and a contract analyst to the Ministry of Health. He has an academic background in sociology, statistics and music and a work history in tertiary education and social and health research. With interests in health disparities, Maori ethical frameworks and ethics review processes; he will be joining Martin Tolich and Heather Devere from Otago University to examine aspects of the ethics review system in New Zealand supported by a three-year grant from the Marsden Fund. He is a grant reviewer for the Health Research Council and a member of its Science Assessing Committees. He leads the Lakes DHB Research and Ethics Committee and has chaired the Bay of Plenty Regional Ethics Committee and the Multi-region Ethics Committee. He is a member of the HRC Ethics Committee and Otago University’s project based Pharmacovigilance Ethics Advisory Group. He contributes to courses run by the University of Otago Bioethics Centre and is involved with Victoria University’s Postgraduate Diploma of Clinical Research. Outside of health and ethics, Barry is a gigging guitarist and occasional bass player with wide performing experience. He has taught in the Department of Music at Waikato University and at Te Wananga o Aotearoa’s School of Performing Arts receiving the QSM for his activity around the performing arts and ethics.
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