ANZIHLE Board Members 2005
- Ms Judy Allen
- A/Prof Belinda Bennett
- A/Prof Roy Beran
- Professor Don Chalmers - Chair
- Dr Thomas Faunce
- Ms Jennifer Fleming
- Prof Ian Freckelton
- Ms Julie Letts
- A/Prof Roger Magnusson
- Professor Margaret Otlowski
- A/Prof Malcom Parker
- A/Prof Michael James
- Professor Loane Skene
- A/Prof Cameron Stewart
- Professor Colin Thomson
Ms Judy Allen
Law School, University of Western Australia
jallen@ecel.uwa.edu.au
http://www.law.ecel.uwa.edu.au/law/staff/jallen.htm
A/Prof Belinda Bennett
Faculty of Law, University of Sydney
belindab@law.usyd.edu.au
A/Prof Roy Beran
Neurologist
roy.beran@unsw.edu.au
Roy Beran was elected to the board of the Australian and New Zealand Institute of Health Law and Ethics at the Annual General Meeting in 1996. Besides involvement with ANZIHLE Roy also contributes to the World Association of Medical Law, the Australian Academy of Forensic Sciences, the Commission for Economic Aspects of Epilepsy for the International League Against Epilepsy, and the International Bureau for Epilepsy Commission on Epilepsy and the Law.
Roy works as a consultant neurologist and visiting medical officer at Liverpool Hospital, Fairfield Hospital, Braeside Hospital, Royal Rehabilitation Hospital, HMAS Penguin Naval Hospital and the Mater and St Lukes Hospitals in Sydney. His qualifications include MBBS (University of NSW), MD (in the area of neuro-epidemilogy with specific focus upon epilepsy) (UNSW), FRACP, FRACGP, FAFPHM and FACLM. Roy has a B Leg S law degree from Macquarie University, a graduate diploma in tertiary education from New England University and a graduate diploma in further education from the Adelaide College of Advanced Education.
His clinical interests include general neurology, but particularly epilepsy, sleep medicine, and therapeutics, with particular reference to clinical drug trials. His major interest in legal medicine is the focus upon the interface of medicine, and the law, the ethics of clinical drug trials and the impact of law.
Professor Don Chalmers
Faculty of Law, University of Tasmania
Don.Chalmers@utas.edu.au
http://www.law.utas.edu.au/chalmers.html
Dr Thomas Faunce
Thomas.Faunce@anu.edu.au
Dr Faunce is a senior lecturer in the ANU Medical School (Chair Personal and Professional Development) and lecturer in Health Law, Ethics and Human Rights at the ANU Law Faculty. He has trained in Intensive Care to Senior Registrar Level and his text book on ICU physiology and pharmacology is now in its 8th edition.
Ms Jennifer Fleming
Office of Public Policy and Ethics
Institute of Molecular Bioscience
University of Queensland
Jennifer_Fleming@health.qld.gov.au
Ms Julie Letts
NSW Department of Health
JLETT@doh.health.nsw.gov.au
Julie Letts is Senior Analyst, Clinical Ethics in the Health Ethics Branch, NSW Health Department. She has substantial experience in policy development and project management with the Victorian and NSW Health Departments in areas including development of trauma and emergency services, use of blood products, end of life decision making including advance care directives, and organ transplantation. She has a Masters degree in bioethics and previously 15 years clinical and teaching experience as a critical care nurse in major teaching hospitals.
Professor Ian Freckelton
I.Freckelton@vicbar.com.au
A/Prof Roger Magnusson
R.Magnusson@law.usyd.edu.au
http://www.law.usyd.edu.au/staff/r_magnusson.htm
Roger is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Law, University of Sydney. He coordinates the Faculty's postgraduate Health Law Program and convenes the Health Law Seminar Series. After completing undergraduate degrees at the Australian National University in Canberra, Roger practised as a Barrister and Solicitor in Melbourne, working extensively on Coronial Inquests into Police Shootings before the Victorian State Coroner. From 1990-1993 he completed his PhD at the University of Melbourne, in the legal protection of privacy with special reference to HIV/AIDS information. Graduating in 1994, he was awarded a Commonwealth AIDS Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, and from 1994-1996 continued to work in the area of HIV/AIDS, law and policy, at the University of Melbourne. Interviews for his book, Angels of Death: Exploring the Euthanasia Underground, began during this time. In 1997, Roger moved to Sydney and joined the Law Faculty at the University of Sydney. He became a senior lecturer in 2000. Among many roles, Roger is a member of the NHMRC Special Expert Committee on Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (SECTSE), which advises the Commonwealth Government on the risks posed by variant Creutzfeldt Jakob disease (vCJD)and other TSEs.
Professor Margaret Otlowski
Centre for Law and Genetics
University of Tasmania
Margaret.Otlowski@utas.edu.au
A/ Prof Malcom Parker
Queensland Medical Education Centre
m.parker@mailbox.uq.edu.au
A/Prof Michael James
Royal Adelaide Hospital
Michael.James@adelaide.edu.au
Professor Loane Skene
Faculty of Law, University of Melbourne
l.skene@unimelb.edu.au
http://www.law.unimelb.edu.au/db/profile/academic.asp?username=Loane%20Skene
A/Prof Cameron Stewart
Division of Law, Macquarie University
cstewart@law.mq.edu.au
http://www.law.mq.edu.au/html/staff/stewartc.htm
Professor Colin Thomson
Faculty of Law, University of Wollongong
cthomson@uow.edu.au