| A/Prof Lynn Gillam |
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Associate Professor |
| Biography |
Assoc Prof Lynn Gillam is an ethicist with particular interests in clinical ethics, research ethics and ethics education. Lynn is Associate Professor in Health Ethics at the Centre for Health and Society, in the Melbourne School of Population Health, where she teaches health ethics in the medical curriculum and the postgraduate social health program, and supervises masters and PhD students. Lynn also has an appointment at the Royal Children’s Hospital, where she is the Clinical Ethicist and Academic Director of the Children’s Bioethics Centre, an initiative of the Royal Children’s Hospital, in partnership with the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and the University of Melbourne.
Lynn’s academic background is in philosophy and theology (MA, Oxon.), and bioethics (PhD, Monash). Lynn has over 15 years experience on Human Research Ethics Committees. She is currently the Chair of the University of Melbourne Human Research Ethics Committee, which is an oversight and policy-making body. She also serves on a number of ethics advisory bodies for state government agencies, professional bodies and the NHMRC. These include the NHMRC Embryo Research Licensing Committee, the Victorian Assisted Reproductive Treatment Authority Ethics Advisory Panel and the Victorian Newborn Screening Advisory Committee, which she chairs.
Lynn’s current research interests include pre-natal diagnosis; ethical decision-making and the role of trust in research ethics; end-of-life decision-making in paediatrics, and controversial medical treatments in paediatrics, in particular, treatment of Disorders of Sex Development. She also has a strong interest in the intersections between ethics and sociology, and the development of inter-disciplinary qualitative methods suitable for research in ethics.
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