Programme

The Conference starts Thursday 9th July on Level 5 Rydges Lakeland Resort, Queenstown

Presenter Profiles                 

Thursday 9th July       (All events held at the Rydges Lakeland Resort, 38-54 Esplanade, Queenstown unless otherwise stated)                     
5.00 pm Registration LEVEL 5 FOYER
5.30 pm Welcome Reception LEVEL 5 FOYER
6.00 pm Opening Ceremony  QUEENSTOWN ROOM     
6.30 pm Kirby Oration:
Regulating for compassion?           
Health & Disability Commissioner Ron Paterson, NZ                                                                                                                       
                  
7.30 pm End of Day

Friday 10th July          
8.00 am Registration
8.30 am

Plenary:
Culture and the being of imperilled neonates
Prof Hilde Lindemann, Michigan State University, USA
 

9.30 am

Elective Presentations:

Keeping the terminally-ill alive for non-medical reasons - a case-study of "best interests"

Peter Saul

Health, Being, and the Ethics of Spinoza

Simon Walker

Life as Loss?

Bernadette Richards

Nationalistic bioscience, failed bioethics: A Confucian critique of three East-Asian cases

Jing Bao Nie

10.10 am Morning Tea
10.40 am Elective Presentations:

Understanding the shared responsibility in assessing the benefits and risks of research for the vulnerable criticial care patient: A Case Study

Jennifer Fleming

Zen Ethics, Evolved Ethics

Charles Douglas

Journal peer review as a moral enterprise

Wendy Lipworth

Treat first, consent later: the problem with patient autonomy in the emergency department.

Sarah Winch

11.20 am Elective Presentations:

Unpacking End-of-life Decisions: the Interaction Between Ethics and Metaphysics.

Garth Thomas

Value and the Environment: Do Ecological Ethics Depend on Intrinsic Value?

Alma Rae

Regulating for patient safety in primary care

Katharine Wallis

Reconceptualising medical professionalism

Wendy Rogers , Angela Ballantyne

12.00 pm Lunch
1.00 pm Elective Presentations:

The Future of Fairness?  Ethics in the New Zealand elective surgery prioritisation system (Workshop 1pm - 3pm)

Neil Pickering, Alison Barber, Chris McEwan, Ray Naden

The Influence of Medical Power of Attorney and Advanced Care Directive on Treatment Decisions of Australian Intensive Care Doctors.

Sharyn Milnes

Ethics as Ontological Engagement

Peter Isaacs

Scary Genes, Helpful Genies? Reflections on ‘Genes, Society and the Future’

Richman Wee

1.40 pm

Elective Presentations:
The law and ethics of end of life decisions – and their discontents

Roger Magnusson

Finding Future Value

Barbara Nicholas

Direct-to-consumer personal genome testing: The problem isn’t ignorance; it’s market failure

Ian H. Kerridge
2.20 pm Elective Presentations:

Role of trust in end-of-life discussions

Barbara Hayes

Enigmatic ethics: Transgender embodiment, medical institutions and Emmanuel Levinas

Joey Macdonald

Recent developments in stem cell research:  Issues for the future

Prof Loane Skene

3.00 pm Afternoon Tea & Posters
3.30 pm Presidential Addresses:
Pulling the wool:  A plea for coherence, clarity and honesty as necessary                 
conditions for caution about the future
Assoc Prof Malcolm Parker, ABA President

Marion's case is dead! Long live Marion's case!
Assoc Prof Cameron Stewart, Acting ANZIHLE President
5.00 pm End of Day
5.30 pm Night Skiing Coronet Peak

Saturday 11th July        
8.30 am Joint Plenary:

Neuroethics and human identity
Prof Grant Gillett, University of Otago, NZ

Transplantation and the availability of organs 

Prof James Lindemann Nelson, Michigan State University, USA                               
10.30 am Morning Tea
11.00 am Elective Presentations:

Your health, your money, your life!  Who makes decisions when capacity is lost? (Workshop 11.00 am - 1.00 pm)

Margaret Brown, Jean Murray, Lindy Willmott

Regulating reproductive technologies and making sense of child welfare

John McMillan

Directed donation of biological materials: An example of discrimination or exercise of free choice?

Bernadette Richards

Beyond autonomy – what is the value of the patient in psychiatry?

Michael Robertson

11.40 am

Elective Presentations:
‘The Return of the Ba’: Reflections on ethical implications of human embodied subjectivity
Frank C Versonnen
Effectiveness, efficiency and equity in tissue donation and eye banking when tissue supply is greater than local demand                              
Nichalas Nuttall
Contemporary straitjackets: An ethical analysis of physical and chemical restraints in disability
Lisa Bridle

12.20 pm Elective Presentations:

Digging up the past: The circulation of biovalue across space and time

Amy Fletcher

When is the organ donor really dead?

Wendy Rogers

The Protection of Personal and Property Rights Act 1988 and the Treatment of Mentally Impaired

Cordelia Thomas

1.00 pm Lunch
2.00 pm Elective Presentations:
Risk Management: An Interview Study of Euthanasia at an Australian Hospital.

Katrina George

Sometimes we should amputate a healthy limb. The ethical management of Body Identity Integrity Disorder

Christopher Ryan

The Power of Apology

Marie Bismark

Selecting the ‘right’ medical students: Is there a future role for psychometric personality testing?

Eleanor Milligan
2.40 pm Elective Presentations:

From Noun to Verb - Is Hope an Ethical Issue?

Anna Holmes

A Post-malaise Model for Health Care Leadership

MaryLou Harrigan

Early surgical innovation in clinical practice

Anthony Eyers

The pedagogy of appropriate treatment limitation

Charles Douglas
3.20 pm Afternoon Tea & Posters
3.50 pm Plenary:

Meeting the basic survival needs of the world's healthy people:                
Perspectives in international law and global ethics
Prof Lawrence O Gostin, Georgetown University, USA

4.50 pm Annual General Meeting
5.50 pm Day End
7.30 pm Conference Dinner:  Prime Restaurant, Rees Street, Queenstown

Sunday 12th July         
9.00 am

Plenary:
Last drinks: Ethics, epistemology and the failure of EBM
Assoc Prof Ian Kerridge, University of Sydney, AU

10.00 am Morning Tea
10.30 am Elective Presentations:

Aged care and narrative ethics (Panel 10.30 am - 12.30 pm)

Grant Gillett, Dorrie Ferster, MaryLou Harrigan

The global shortage of health workers and responsible rich country responses

Paula O'Brien

The Future Right to Health

Sieglinde Pommer

11.10 am Elective Presentations:

Developing Clinical Ethics through Partnership

Julie Letts
My Family: My Choice: Should sex selection be prohibited in New Zealand?
John Pennington for Cordelia Thomas

A  citizens' jury on the secondary use of health information for research: what do the results mean?                                                         

Charlotte Paul

11.50 am Elective Presentations:

The Swine Flu Scare: What Role for Global Health Law?

Sieglinde Pommer

Vale Arne Naess (1912 - 2009) Getting back to the future (before it's too late)

Peter Saul

How to ...... die

Assoc Prof Ian Kerridge, University of Sydney, AU

12.30 pm Closing
1.00 pm Farewell BBQ Lunch

Programme subject to change

 


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