Contact Details
- Phone
- 64 3 471 6120
- janine.winters@otago.ac.nz
University Links
- Position
- Senior Lecturer
- Department
- Bioethics Centre
- Qualifications
- Medical Doctor. Specialist in palliative medicine, paediatric palliative care, and family medicine.
- Research summary
- End-of-life medical issues for adults and children, and high-stakes decision-making for children.
- Teaching
- Co-convenor, BITC 405 Bioethics in Clinical Practice
- Tutor, ELM2 tutorial Clinical Skills
- Tutor, ELM2 tutorial Early Professional Experience
- Lecturer and tutor for Bioethics Longitudinal Model, Otago School of Medicine
- Palliative Medicine Education, including lectures and tutorials on symptom management, last days of life (ALM), and pain management (ALM5).
- Paediatrics education – adolescent decision-making and paediatric palliative care
- Ethics of genetics
- Memberships
- Australia New Zealand Society of Palliative Medicine
- Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law
- American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine
- American Academy of Family Medicine
- Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society
- Clinical
I work half time (plus on call) at the Otago Community Hospice where I see patients and oversee clinical medical student education in Palliative Medicine. In prior years I have been the director of a Paediatric Palliative Care programme at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, where I was also in a leadership role of the Clinical Ethics Committee.
Research
I am interested in Clinical Ethics consultations, especially regarding dilemmas in paediatrics and end-of-life care.
Additional details
- I have previously taught modules on Literature in Medicine.
- I work half time at the University of Otago and half time at the Otago Community Hospice.
- I worked at the Bay of Islands Hospital, Kawakawa, in 2005–2006.
- I am from Ohio, USA. My husband has a PhD in European and Military History and we have three children.
- I realised as I wrote this how much I like living and working in places that begin and end in “O”.