A/Prof Lynn Gillam is a Senior Lecturer in Health Ethics at the Centre for Health and Society (CHS), and the Principal Research Fellow in Ethics at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. She teaches in the postgraduate programs at the CHS and supervises Masters and PhD students. She also sits on academic and hospital ethics committees and has published widely in international journals and monographs.
Her research interests include autonomy and informed consent; ethical issues in genetics, especially pre-natal diagnosis, genetic testing, and its implications for people with disabilities (including deafness specifically); research on humans; responsibility and professional integrity; and ethical issues raised by foetal tissue transplantation, and use of data from unethical experiments.
Lynn has a background in Philosophy and Theology (MA, Oxford), and bioethics (PhD, Monash). She has been involved in Bioethics since 1989 and has taught ethics at Monash University, Deakin University and Victoria University of Technology.
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