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Dr Jon Cornwall

Contact Details

Phone
+64 3 471 6378
Email
jon.cornwall@otago.ac.nz
Position
Education Adviser and Senior Lecturer
Qualifications
DipPhty BSc(Physiology) MSc(Anatomy) DMPhty PGCertTertT PhD
Research summary
Bioethical issues surrounding posthumous human assets, muscle biology
Memberships

Federative International Committee for Ethics in the Medical Humanities (FICEM)

Research

Dr Jon Cornwall is a Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Early Learning in Medicine, Otago Medical School. Originally trained as a physiotherapist and clinical anatomist, Jon works in medical education and has research interests in posthumous human assets, including the posthumous utility of bodies, organs, and health information in healthcare and education. His other research interest is the functional morphology of spinal muscles, and muscle biology including age-related change in spinal muscle function.

He is a member of the Federative International Committee of Ethics in the Medical Humanities, the group that oversees ethical processes surrounding body donation for the International Federation of Association of Anatomists, and serves on the editorial board of several anatomy journals.

Publications

Cornwall, J., Champney, T. H., de la Cova, C., Hall, D., Hildebrandt, S., Mussell, J. C., … DeLeon, V. B. (2024). American Association for Anatomy recommendations for the management of legacy anatomical collections. Anatomical Record. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1002/ar.25410 Journal - Research Article

Zieff, G., Cornwall, J., Blue, M. N., Smith-Ryan, A. E., & Stoner, L. (2024). Ultrasound-based measurement of central adiposity: Key considerations and guidelines. Obesity Reviews. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1111/obr.13716 Journal - Research Article

Tater, J., Zaharic, T., Guy, W., & Cornwall, J. (2024). How much is too much? Medical students' perceptions of evaluation and research requests, and suggestions for practice. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 49(1), 117-128. doi: 10.1080/02602938.2023.2187330 Journal - Research Article

Kenwright, D., Kuruppu, N., Cornwall, J., Print, C., Lindt, T., Grainger, R., & Thunders, M. (2023). A Delphi consensus exercise to determine a genetics and genomics curriculum for primary medical degree in Aotearoa New Zealand. Focus on Health Professional Education, 24(4), 24-36. doi: 10.11157/fohpe.v24i4.653 Journal - Research Article

Madgwick, J., Cornwall, J., & Anderson, L. (2023). Medical students' initial experiences of the dissection room and body donors through a Pasifika lens. In R. Richards, I. Walter, A. Finigan, T. Ruhe, L. Avia, M. Schaaf & E. Fehoko (Eds.), Proceedings of the Pacific Postgraduate Symposium: Pacific Voices XX. (pp. 21). Dunedin, New Zealand: Pacific Islands Centre, University of Otago. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10523/16433 Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

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