Australasian Association of Bioethics & Health Law and New Zealand Bioethics Conference

Professor Carl Elliott

Centre for Bioethics, University of Minnesota, USA

Carl Elliott is Professor in the University of Minnesota's Center for Bioethics and an affiliate faculty member in the Department of Philosophy and the School of Journalism and Mass Communications. He is the recipient of a 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2018 National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar Award. He is also a former post-doctoral fellow and William Evans Visiting Fellow at the University of Otago Bioethics Centre.

Elliott is the author or editor of seven books, including White Coat, Black Hat: Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine (Beacon, 2010) and Better than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream (Norton, 2003.) His articles have appeared in publications such as The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Review of Books, Mother Jones, The New York Times, The American Scholar and The New England Journal of Medicine. He is currently working on a book about whistleblowing in research on human subjects.

Associate Professor Maui Hudson

Faculty of Māori and Indigenous Studies, The University of Waikato, NZ

Associate Professor Maui Hudson is based in the Faculty of Māori and Indigenous Studies at the University of Waikato. He is an interdisciplinary researcher who explores the interface between Indigenous Knowledge, Science and Technology. He co-authored the Te Mata Ira Guidelines for Genomic Research with Māori, and the He Tangata Kei Tua Guidelines for Biobanking with Māori. Professor Hudson is also the co-convener for SING Aotearoa (Summer Internship for Indigenous Genomics), a co-founder of Te Mana Raraunga Māori Data Sovereignty Network, and a member of the Senior Leadership Team for Genomics Aotearoa.

Professor Joanna Manning

Faculty of Law, The University of Auckland, NZ

Joanna Manning is a Professor at the Faculty of Law, the University of Auckland, where she teaches and has published widely on issues of: health law, policy, and ethics; torts, including negligence; and accident compensation, particularly treatment injury. She is a contributing author of the textbook, Skegg and Paterson (eds), Health Law in New Zealand (Thomson Brookers, 2015) and the editor of The Cartwright Papers: Essays on the Cervical Cancer Inquiry 1987-88 (Bridget Williams Books, 2009). She was the consumer representative on the Medical Practitioners Disciplinary Committee for approx 10 years, the lawyer member of the National Ethics Advisory Committee from 2005 to 2011 and the lawyer member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Heart Foundation NZ (2011-2014).

Professor Catherine Mills

Monash Bioethics Centre, Monash University, Australia

Catherine Mills is a Professor in the Monash Bioethics Centre. Her disciplinary background is philosophy, and her research addresses ethical issues in human reproduction, especially from the perspective of how new reproductive technologies impact on women. She also has expertise in feminist philosophy and aspects of Continental philosophy, particularly the work of Michel Foucault, and debates on biopolitics.

She is the author of three single author books, as well as numerous articles and book chapters. Her books are: The Philosophy of Agamben (2008), Futures of Reproduction: Bioethics and Biopolitics (2011) and Biopolitics (2018).

Recent funded projects include an ARC Future Fellowship (2012-2016) on responsibility in pregnancy. A current ARC Discovery Project (2017-2019) supports research on the ethical and legal issues raised by technologies that permit inheritable genetic modifications to the human genome, such as mitochondrial replacement techniques and CRISPR-Cas9. An earlier ARC Discovery Project supported research on obstetric ultrasound and selective termination of pregnancy.

Dr Krushil Watene

College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Massey University, NZ

Krushil Watene is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities at Massey University. Krushil specialises in moral and political philosophies of well-being, development, and justice with a particular focus on indigenous philosophies. She works closely with Māori communities to support the revitalisation and sustaining of mātauranga Māori, and the ways in which Māori justice concepts can contribute to global justice theorising. She was elected as a Rutherford Discovery Fellow in 2018, and her work has been supported by the Marsden Fund, Ngā Pae ō te Māramatanga, and the Land and Water National Science Challenge.

Professor Martin Wilkinson

Politics and International Relations, The University of Auckland, NZ

Martin Wilkinson has undergraduate and doctoral degrees from Oxford University. He worked in the Department of Political Studies from 1993-2002 and returned in 2009 after several years working in the medical school. In recent years he has worked on ethics in organ transplantation and public health ethics. His book Ethics and the Acquisition of Organs (Oxford University Press, 2011: pbk 2015) has been described in reviews as `slim, rigorous and entertaining' (Journal of Applied Philosophy) and `a first-rate work of philosophy, independent of sub-field' Res Publica. He was Chair of the Bioethics Council and Deputy Chair of the National Ethics Advisory Committee.

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Keynote Speakers

Professor Carl Elliott

Associate Professor Maui Hudson

Professor Joanna Manning

Professor Catherine Mills

Dr Krushil Watene

Professor Martin Wilkinson

Programme

Workshop Registration

Health Law Stream Workshop

Clinical Ethics Stream Workshop

Registration

Student/Early Career Researcher Workshop

Official Welcome

Keynote Presentation 1: Catherine Mills, Monash University Melbourne

Afternoon Tea

Elective Session 1MCR

Elective Session 1A

Elective Session 1B

Elective Session 1C

Elective Session 1D

Elective Session 1E

Elective Session 1F

Keynote Presentation 2 - Kirby Oration:Joanna Manning, The University of Auckland

Welcome Reception

Keynote Presentation 3: Krushil Watene, Massey University, Albany

Elective Session 2MCR

Elective Session 2A

Elective Session 2B

Elective Session 2C

Elective Session 2D

Elective Session 2E

Elective Session 2F

Morning Tea

Elective Session 3MCR

Elective Session 3A

Elective Session 3B

Elective Session 3C

Elective Session 3D

Elective Session 3E

Elective Session 3F

Lunch

Keynote Presentation 4: The Barry Smith Lecture: Maui Hudson, University of Waikato

Elective Session 4MCR

Elective Session 4A

Elective Session 4B

Elective Session 4C

Elective Session 4D

Elective Session 4E

Elective Session 4F

Afternoon Tea

Elective Session 5MCR

Elective Session 5A

Elective Session 5B

Elective Session 5C

Elective Session 5D

Elective Session 5E

Elective Session 5F

Function to celebrate Grant Gillett's professorship / retirement (RSVP required)

Keynote Presentation 5: Martin Wilkinson, The University of Auckland

Elective Session 6MCR

Elective Session 6A

Elective Session 6B

Elective Session 6C

Elective Session 6D

Morning Tea

Elective Session 7MCR

Elective Session 7A

Elective Session 7B

Elective Session 7C

Elective Session 7D

Elective Session 7E

Lunch

AABHL Annual General Meeting

Keynote Presentation 6 - Carl Elliott, Centre for Bioethics, University of Minnesota, USA

Afternoon Tea

Elective Session 8MCR

Elective Session 8A

Elective Session 8B