2023 Program

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SUNDAY 19 November 2023

1600 – 1700	Registration Desk Open
1700 – 1900	Welcome Reception \| OJW Room

MONDAY 20 November 2023

0800 – 0845	Registration Desk Open
	Opening Plenary \| P 514
0845 – 0855	Welcome to Country Yerongpan Dancers
0855 – 0905	Official Opening A/Prof Bernadette Richards, President, Australasian Association of Bioethics & Health Law
0905 – 0910	Welcome and Housekeeping Samuel Roach, Co-convenor
0910 – 0915	Sponsor Address Bellberry
0915 – 1015	Keynote Speaker Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health research: good governance for impact Professor Ray Mahoney Professor of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health, Flinders University Chair: Prof Matthew Rimmer
1015 – 1045	Morning Tea \| Exhibition space
	Concurrent Session 1
	1.1	1.2	1.3	1.4	1.5
Room	P 504	P 506A	P 506	P 512	P 514
Chair	Assoc. Prof Marco Rizzi	Dr Megan Prictor	Assoc. Prof Rosalind McDougall	Prof Chris Degeling	Josie Johnston
1045 – 1100	Vigilance in public health emergencies Dr Jane Williams University of Woolongong	The scope of fiduciary duties in translational genomic research Dr Carolyn Johnston University of Tasmania	Clinical Ethics Committees: Advisors, Adjudicators, or more? Mathavi Senguttuvan Dr Sumytra Menon Centre For Biomedical Ethics, National University Of Singapore	PANEL Application of AI Health Ethics to Translational Health Science Dr Muralidharan Anantharaman Dr Kathryn Lynn Muyskens A/Prof. Michael Dunn National University Of Singapore Dr Annette Braunack-Mayer University of Woolongong	PANEL Reconceptualising informed consent for the modern era Dr Sarah Heynemann University of Sydney Dr Supriya Subramani Sydney Health Ethics, University of Sydney Dr Anson Fehross Sydney Health Ethics, University of Sydney Dr Narcyz Ghinea (V) Macquarie University
1100 – 1115	Pandemic lottery preparedness: Preparing to ethically, fairly, and systematically allocate scarce resources in response to future infectious disease outbreaks Dr Gerard Vong Emory University Center For Ethics	Empowering Communities in Genomics Lyndsay Newett National Centre For Indigenous Genomics (Australian National University)	Clinical Ethics Consultation: Exploring the Practice and Training in Pakistan (V) Dr Sarosh Saleem Liaquat National Hospital & Medical College
1115 – 1130	Epistemic Injustice in Global Health Ethics: The Case of COVID-19 Pandemic Dr Ehsan Shamsi Gooshki Monash University	The place of uncertainty in the ethical delivery of health genomics Prof. Ainsley Newson University Of Sydney	The emergence of Institutional Ethics Advisory Groups Prof. Andrew Crowden University of Queensland
1130 – 1145	The Patient Priority in a Policy Maker’s World: A Critique of Person-Centred and Value-Based Health Care as the Health System Model of the Future Nina Roxburgh Monash University	“Is it a scam?”: Warning relatives of genetic risk Serene Ong National University Of Singapore	Changing Paradigms and Creating Opportunities – Establishing Clinical Ethics Forum and Consultations in Pakistan (V) Dr Annum Ishtiaq Liaquat National Hospital & Medical College
1145 – 1200	Global soft law and preventative public health: Leverage Corporate Social Responsibility and corporate law frameworks to address the Commercial Determinants of Health Tess Rooney University Of Queensland	Challenges with the characterisation of genomic data under Australian privacy law and implications for genomic data sharing Prof. Margaret Otlowski Dr Lisa Eckstein Faculty of Law, University Of Tasmania	Clinical ethical decision-making and the deliberative process: The ‘Ethox approach’ revamped A/Prof Mark Sheehan University of Oxford A/Prof. Michael Dunn National University Of Singapore	Large language models in healthcare: a checklist for safe, ethical and responsible use of generative AI language models Dr Yves Saint James Aquino University Of Wollongong	The Law and Ethics of Consent and Causation Prof. Jerry Menikoff National University Of Singapore
1200 – 1215	Unacceptable behaviour towards clinical students: impact and a need for change Prof. Lynley Anderson University Of Otago			Trust as a Moral Power: Implications for AI in Medicine Dr Muralidharan Anantharaman National University Of Singapore	Informed consent in elderly patients’ in the dental setting Lavina Choie University of Otago
1215 – 1230				How should artificial intelligence be used in healthcare? A report from the first national Australian citizens’ jury on healthcare AI. Prof. Stacy Carter Australian Centre For Health Engagement, Evidence And Values (ACHEEV)	Recent developments in the standard of care in medical negligence cases Prof. Tina Cockburn A/Prof. Bill Madden Australian Centre For Health Law Research
1230 – 1330	Lunch \| Exhibition space
1240 – 1330	Lunch Sessions SECR \| Room 512 Public Health \| Room 506A
	Plenary \| P 514
1330 – 1430	Kirby Oration Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG
1430 – 1440	Move to concurrent rooms
	Concurrent Session – Rapid Fire Orals
	R.1	R.2	R.3	R.4	R.5
Room	P 504	P 506A	P 506	P 512	P 514
Chair	Prof Ian Kerridge	Dr Divna Haslam	Dr Sam Boyle	Dr Jane Williams	Prof Tina Cockburn
1440 – 1445	Medico Legal Investigation: client capacity and professional ethics in managing people with cognitive impairment (V) Dr Michaela Okninski Ms Margaret Castles Mr Joel Grieger University Of Adelaide Dr Hilary Bowman-Smart University of South Australia	The Use and Abuse of “Gillick competence” in clinical practice Dr Sarah Martin Queensland Children’s Hospital	Inconsistent principles in public health screening frameworks for non-invasive prenatal testing Ryan Friets National University Of Singapore	The Ethical, Legal and Social Issues of the Governance of Genomic Data Jasmine Hensley University Of Western Australia	ORAL PRESENTATION Ethical Issues in the Charlie Teo Decision (V) Prof. Ian Freckelton University Of Melbourne
1445- 1450	Raising the Dead? The limits of CPR A/Prof. George Skowronski St George Hospital, Sydney	What makes communication effective in healthcare? The impact of communication between tertiary and primary care, and opportunities for change Dr Mel Drinkwater Sydney Children’s Hospital Network		Mixed Signals: Distinguishing between trustworthy behaviour and trustworthy signalling in health data sharing practice Paige Fitzsimmons University of Oxford
1450 – 1455	Working within the legal framework for end-of-life decision-making in Queensland: The experience of Emergency Department and Intensive Care Unit healthcare professionals. Dr Jayne Hewitt Griffith University	Ethics training programs in the postgraduate setting (V) Lua Jun Kiat Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore	Clinical Ethics and Therapeutic Lies: an opportunity for dialogue, education and harm minimisation Andrew Wheaton Metro South Health	Who is going to pay for SaMDs? Insurers’ transparency needs around AI medical devices Tatiana Aranovich Macquarie University
1455- 1500	Advance Care Planning for Older People in End-of-Life in the Japanese Context: Challenge and Opportunity (V) Dr Yukio Sakurai Yokohama National University	A review of training approaches for clinical ethics committee members (V) Arthena Anushka Thenpandiyan Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore	Reviewing undergraduate medical education programs (V) Tan Xuan Yu Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore	Post-Trial Access to Implantable Neural Devices: An International Survey of Investigator Experiences and Ethical Perspectives Nathan Higgins Monash University	ORAL PRESENTATION Following the ‘Health Advice’: what do the courts think? A/Prof. Marco Rizzi A/Prof. Meredith Blake Mr Aidan Ricciardo University of Western Australia
1500 – 1505	The Commonwealth Criminal Code: Will it restrict access to voluntary assisted dying in South Australia and is there a way forward? (V) Julia Matteo Dr Michaela Okninski The University Of Adelaide	Women’s entrepreneurship in biotechnology & medical technology industry Dr Jovanna Nathalie Cervantes Guzman QUT		Testing the Ability of Large Language Models to Achieve the Ethical Education Requirements of Preclinical Medical Students (V) Mr Dhaval Patel Mr Kamran Khan Mr Venkata Paruchuri University Of Queensland
1505 – 1510	Quick Fire Q&A	Quick Fire Q&A	Quick Fire Q&A	Quick Fire Q&A
1510- 1530	Afternoon Tea \| Exhibition space
	Concurrent Session 2
	2.1	2.2	2.3	2.4	2.5
Room	P 504	P 506A	P 506	P 512	P 514
Chair	Dr Nathan Emmerich	Tess Whitton	Dr Lisa Eckstein	Prof Andrew Crowden	Prof Dominique Martin
1530 – 1545	Impact of conscientious objection by health professionals to voluntary assisted dying and possible legislative solutions Prof. Lindy Willmott Australian Centre For Health Law Research, QUT	The Practical Wisdom of Health in an Era of the Quantified Self Zachary Daus Monash University	The Ethical Case for Decentralized Clinical Trials Dr Kathryn Muyskens Centre For Biomedical Ethics, NUS	PANEL Social, legal and ethical implications of mitochondrial donation A/Prof. Karinne Ludlow Prof. Catherine Mills Prof Rob Sparrow Ezra Kneebone Monash University A/Prof Chris Degeling University of Woolongong	PANEL Reflexivity in Bioethics Research: From principle to practice A/Prof. Michael Dunn Centre for Biomedical Ethics, NUS Dr Jane Williams University of Wollongong Dr Supriya Subramani Sydney Health Ethics, University of Sydney Prof. Jonathan Ives University of Bristol Jackie Leach Scully UNSW
1545 – 1600	Why doctors choose to participate in voluntary assisted dying in Queensland – perceived barriers and facilitators to participation in a willing cohort Dr Laura Ley Greaves Australian Centre For Health Law Research, QUT	The Role of Photography in Bioethics Prof. Angus Dawson National University Of Singapore	Unnecessary and dangerous: Examining the need to carry out close-out medical tests after early termination of a clinical trial Sow Wei Wong Centre For Biomedical Ethics/abbvie Inc
1600 – 1615	Voluntary Assisted Dying oversight systems internationally: individual case reviews Dr Betheli O’Carroll Queensland University of Technology	Fictionalism in discussions of autonomy in medical ethics Dr Ian Maddox University Of Western Australia	Improving Ethical Practices Associated with Re-Use of Existing Stem Cell Lines in Australia Prof. Rachel Ankeny University Of Adelaide
1615 – 1630	Effective approaches to regulating voluntary assisted dying: a qualitative study of doctors and regulators Prof. Ben White Australian Centre for Health Law Research, QUT	Withholding and withdrawing ventilators: a psychological or moral difference? Dr Andrew McGee Queensland University of Technology	An Empirical Profile of 30 Years of Australian Coronial Litigation Naomi Burstyner Monash University
1630 – 1645	Dying a Lonely Death: A Conceptual and Normative Analysis Dr Zohar Lederman HKU	Legal and ethical conflicts of the Transplantation and Anatomy Act 1979 (Qld) and the Coroners Act 2003 (Qld) Dr Scott Kitchener ACHLR		Mitochondrial donation and parental status: does size matter? Dr Giuliana fuscaldo Monash University	In search of the Goldilocks method: Empirical bioethics and the spectre of scientisation Prof. Jonathan Ives The University Of Bristol
1645 – 1700	Clinician perspectives: a multisite survey of clinical staff across NSW to inform VAD implementation planning Dr Linda Sheahan SESLHD Clinical Ethics Service			Unlimited Oocytes? (Re)Thinking (Re)Production in an Era of Accelerated Gametogenesis Laura Teerijoki Monash University	Forgetting Philosophy’s place: the past and future of bioethics is multi-disciplinary Dr Christopher Mayes Deakin University
	End of Day One
1700	AABHL Executive Committee Meeting \| P 506
1700 – 1800	Early Career Researchers Stream Networking Drinks The Botanic Bar, Block P, QUT
1800 – 2000	Health Law Stream Drinks The Ship Inn, Cnr Stanley and Sidon Streets, Southbank Parklands enquires – healthlaw@aabhl.org

TUESDAY 21 November 2023

0830 – 0900	Registration Desk Open
	Opening Plenary \| P 514
0845- 0855	Welcome and Housekeeping
0855 – 0955	Keynote Speaker Hope, humility and prudence: Reinvigorating virtues in contemporary practice Professor Ian Kerridge Professor of Bioethics and Medicine, Sydney Health Ethics, University of Sydney Chair: Prof Wendy Lipworth
0955 – 1000	Move to concurrent rooms
	Concurrent Session 3
	3.1	3.2	3.3	3.4	3.5
Room	P 504	P 506A	P 506	P 512	P 514
Chair	Prof Matthew Rimmer	Miriam Wiersma	Dr Jovanna Nathalie Cervantes Guzman	Assoc. Prof Michael Charles Dunn	Dr Stephen Bartlett
1000 – 1015	What moral weight should patient-led demand have in clinical decisions about Assisted Reproductive Technologies? Prof. Wendy Lipworth Macquarie University	The national prevalence of corporal punishment in Australia: Implications for legislative reform Dr Divna Haslam QUT	Harms, constrained agency and epistemic injustice in Australian health care: surgery involving transvaginal mesh Dr Mina Motamedi Australian Centre for Health Engagement Evidence and Values (ACHEEV),University Of Wollongong	Out of Office: An ethical analysis of psychedelics in the workplace Dr Cynthia Forlini Deakin University	Profits over People: The Case for Prosecuting Australia’s Tobacco Industry for Homicide Offences Frankie Berardi University of Queensland
1015 – 1030	Bioethical issues posed by patents – and how they are used – over ‘technologies’ related to the form, functioning and modification of the human body: An Urgent Need for Scrutiny Prof. Aisling Mcmahon Maynooth University	Mandatory reporting of child maltreatment by paramedics: a healthcare perspective Dr Dominique Moritz University Of The Sunshine Coast	Performance management in healthcare: The illusory appeal of shiny new tools Kavisha Shah Digital Health Cooperative Research Centre	EdTech and Ethics: Monitoring Suicide Risk in UK Schools Jessica Lorimer University Of Oxford	Are Antinatalist Policies a Permissible Method to Mitigate Australia’s Impact on the Environment? Elinor Pryce University of Adelaide
1030 – 1100	Morning Tea \| Exhibition space
	Concurrent Session 4
	4.1	4.2	4.3	4.4	4.5
Room	P 504	P 506A	P 506	P 512	P 514
Chair	Dr Lisa Dive	Dr Katie Woolaston	Jasmine Hensley	Penny Neller	Prof Tina Cockburn
1100 – 1115	Pigeon Pairs and Why Did I Care?: Experiences And Beliefs Surrounding Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT) And Fetal Chromosomal Sex Determination Dr Hilary Bowman-Smart University Of South Australia	Vaccine hesitancy is not always voluntary Samuel Roach QUT	The opportunity to address challenging family behaviours in paediatric care – The impact of shifting from ‘zero tolerance’ to ‘graded response’ Anne Preisz Sydney Children’s Hospital Network	PANEL The Right to Decide and People with Cognitive Disabilities: Current Legal and Ethical Issues Prof. Shih-ning Then Dr Sam Boyle Dr Julia Duffy Dr Katrine Del Villar Australian Centre for Health Law Research, QUT Dr Michelle King University of Queensland	PANEL Should Raw Genomic Data be Returned to Research Participants?: The Results of an Empirical Study Dr Carolyn Johnston A/Prof. Professor Jane Nielsen Prof. Margaret Otlowski University of Tasmania A/Prof Mark Cowley A/Prof Vanessa Tyrell Children’s Cancer Institute
1115 – 1130	Conscientious objection and non-invasive prenatal testing Chanelle Warton Monash University	Erosion or evolution? Socially responsible adaptations to regulatory approval of healthcare interventions Sara Attinger Macquarie University	Regulatory and ethical challenges in offering innovative salvage treatments to patients Dr Sumytra Menon Centre For Biomedical Ethics, National University Of Singapore
1130 – 1145	Should there be public Funding for Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT) in Australia? Prof. Catherine Mills Monash University	Older People in Natural Disasters Prof. Belinda Bennett Kristina Chelberg QUT	Conscientious Objection as a Clumsy Solution Nathan Emmerich ANU
1145 – 1200	Reproduction Reconceived; How correcting our definition of ‘reproduction’ triggers profound changes in the way we frame ART access Dr Georgina Hall The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne	Ethics Framework for Social Listening in Infodemic Management Dr Karel Caals Nus Centre For Biomedial Ethics	Bioethics and the Concept of Disability Prof. Joel Michael Reynolds Georgetown University
1200 – 1215	An unhealthy compromise? Stakeholders’ views on the current regulation of conscientious objection to abortion in Australia Dr Bronwen Merner University Of Melbourne	The Public Mental Health Framework (PMHF): Thinking About Law as Medicine Dr Kay Wilson Melbourne Law School	A Novel Regulatory Response to Vaccine Hesitancy: The Role of Trustworthiness in Inoculation Messaging Dr Brydon Timothy Wang Samuel Roach QUT	JOHN MCPHEE PRIZE WINNER Bounded by Suffering: A Comparative Study of Physician Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia Laws Geetanjali Rogers Queensland Bioethics Centre, Australian Catholic University	The varieties of permission: consent and the shift to governance A/Prof. Mark Sheehan University Of Oxford
1215 – 1230	Another pandora’s box”: Stakeholders’ views on disclosing incidental findings detected through non-invasive prenatal testing Dr Molly Johnston Monash University		Decision-making, legal capacity, and the hard cases: considering the ‘(best interpretation of) will and preferences’ Dr Michelle King Queensland Aphasia Research Centre, University Of Queensland	Revisiting Gender CARE: An alternative framework for resolving disputes over gender healthcare for children and adolescents Associate Professor Michelle Taylor-Sands Melbourne Law School Dr Georgina Dimopoulos Southern Cross University	Building together: A scoping review to inform better consenting practices for the most vulnerable in healthcare research A/Prof. Kristen Gibbons Metro South Health
1230 – 1330	Lunch \| Exhibition space
1240 – 1330	Lunch Sessions Health Law Stream \| Room 506 Clinical Ethics \| Room 506A
	Concurrent Session 5
	5.1	5.2	5.3	5.4	5.5
Room	P 504	P 506A	P 506	P 512	P 514
Chair	Prof Ainsley Newson	Prof Ben White	Assoc. Prof Andy McGee	Molly Johnston	Josie Johnston
1330 – 1345	‘I didn’t sign up for this!’- ADF families, genetic information, and the need for transparent and accessible policies A/Prof. Wendy Bonython Bond University	Canadian practitioners’ experiences with Bill C-7 amendments to medical assistance in dying laws: a qualitative analysis Dr Eliana Close Australian Centre For Health Law Research, QUT	The gene-environment interaction: Why genetic enhancement might never be distributed fairly Sinead Prince Queensland University Of Technology	PANEL Best interests: Advancing the Argument for Ambiguity Prof. Jonathan Ives University of Bristol A/Prof. Michael Dunn National University of Singapore Dr Michaela Okninski Dr Bernadette Richards University of Queensland	PANEL Uncertainty, certainty and clinical ethics Dr Edwina Light Dr Linda Sheahan A/Prof. George Skowronski Prof Ian Kerridge South Eastern Sydney Local Health District / University Of Sydney
1345 – 1400	Constructing Maternal Responsibility: The Precarious Concept of “Maternal Care” in Behavioural Epigenetics Research Courtney McMahon Monash University	Institutional Conscientious Objection and Voluntary Assisted Dying Lester David Cusack Queensland University of Technology	Evaluating a virtue ethics approach to moral responsibility and blameworthiness in professional role failures Prof. Justin Oakley Monash Bioethics Centre, Monash University
1400 – 1415	‘Once discoveries are made, we can’t undo them’: Exploring legal issues in direct-to-consumer genetic testing for family tracing after adoption or out-of-home-care Dr Megan Prictor University Of Melbourne	Should Minors Be Able to Access Voluntary Assisted Dying? Dr Katrine Del Villar ACHLR, QUT	Why we should be sceptical about internalism Dr Neil Pickering Bioethics Centre University Of Otago
1415 – 1430	Legal Mechanisms to Support Indigenous Data Sovereignty in Genomics Dr Rebekah McWhirter Deakin University	Implementing voluntary assisted dying locally: An examination of institutional responses to voluntary assisted dying Casey Haining Australian Centre for Health Law Research, QUT	Does minimising the healthcare sector’s environmental impact require making tragic choices? Dr Bridget Pratt Queensland Bioethics Centre, Australian Catholic University
1430 – 1445	Restoring the value of knowing: towards the standardisation of personal utility assessments for genomic testing technologies Dr Gabriel Watts Sydney Health Ethics	Assisted Dying Law Reform in the United Kingdon Patricia Haitink London School Of Economics And Political Science (lse)	Against Imaginary Friends Prof. Robert Sparrow Monash University	Young People Seeking Vaccination Without Parental Consent: The Legal, Ethical and Clinical Practice Issues Faced by Service Providers During COVID-19 Dr Paula O’Brien Melbourne Law School	MAX CHARLESWORTH PRIZE WINNER (Joint) Smoking and Autonomy Dr Shazeea Mohamed Ali Austin Health
1445 – 1500	The End of the Dance – Treatment cessation in assisted reproductive technology treatment Dr Liz Sutton Monash University	Grief, Depression and Completed Life; How to Distinguish Existential Suffering from Medical or Situational Suffering in End-of-Life Decision-Making Tessa Holzman Monash University			MAX CHARLESWORTH PRIZE WINNER (Joint) Consensual Paternalism: Building a Case for Paternalism in Patient Care and Shared Decision-making Dr Sarosh Saleem Saint Louise University
1500 – 1530	Afternoon Tea \| Exhibition space
	Concurrent Session 6
	6.1	6.2	6.3	6.4	6.5
Room	P 504	P 506A	P 506	P 512	P 514
Chair	Prof Lindy Willmott	Serene Ong	Dr Katrine Del Villar	Dr Cynthia Forlini	Dr Muhammad Abbas
1530 – 1545	Can research ethics codes be a conduit for justice? An examination of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander guidelines in Australia, and the VACCHO accord Dr Deborah Zion Victoria University	Abortion: An equal right to life… except when it is not equal Dr Tamara Browne Deakin University	To what extent does Australian law provide a right to second opinions for people receiving compulsory treatment for mental illness? Dr Sam Boyle ACHLR, QUT	PANEL The Ethics of Vaping Policy Prof. Angus Dawson Dr Elizabeth Fenton Dr Monique Jonas National University Of Singapore	Access to Medicines: Why Have Data Exclusivity as Well as Patents? Dr Teddy Henriksen University Of The Sunshine Coast
1545 – 1600	Taking a postcolonial approach to research ethics Dr Supriya Subramani Sydney Health Ethics, School Of Public Health, Faculty Of Medicine And Health, University Of Sydney	Two sides of the same algorithm: ART Professionals’ and Patients’ Views on the Use of AI for Embryo Selection in Australia Amy Webb Monash University	Te Kete Rongomau: Enabling supported decision-making through mental health advance will and preference statements (V) A/Prof. Sarah Gordon University Of Otago Wellington		Open Innovation in an Age of Pandemics: Patent Law, Access to Essential Medicines, and the COVID-19 Public Health Crisis Matthew Rimmer QUT
1600 – 1615	Reassessing Ethics Committee Organization: Implications for Research Evaluation Dr Maria Amelia Rodriguez University Of Queensland. Faculty of Business, Economics and Law	Improving access to surrogacy in Australia: Interviews with surrogates, intended parents and surrogacy professionals Ezra Kneebone Monash University	Philosophical and legal conceptions of human dignity: Ensuring civil, economic, political, social and cultural inclusion Dr Julia Duffy Australian Centre For Health Law Research, QUT		Breaking Boundaries: Decoding the Drivers and Deterrents of Doctor-led Innovation Miriam Wiersma The University Of Sydney, Sydney Health Ethics
1615 – 1630	Clarifying the proper normative scope of advance research directives Dr Hojjat Soofi University of Sydney	Re-opening a 40-year-old can of worms: Synthetic embryos and the moral status of early human life Julian Koplin Monash University	Human Dignity as a Framework for Shared and Supported Decision Making in Healthcare A/Prof. David Kirchhoffer Queensland Bioethics Centre, Australian Catholic University
1630 – 1645	What risk? A critical analysis of the risk-based regulation of therapeutic goods, from stem cell medicine to osseointegration devices (V) Dr Christopher Rudge University Of Sydney Law School	Polygenic Risk Scores, Embryo Selection and the Evidentiary Gap Dr G. Owen Schaefer Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore	Supporting Adults with decision making, the review of the Protection of Personal and Property Rights (PPPR) Act. A/Prof. Ben Gray UOW Primary Health Care and General Practice	Quality use of medicines: Does the end justify the means? Dr Simone Henriksen University Of The Sunshine Coast
1645 – 1700		The role of risk in contentious birth choices Dr Jindalae Skerman	Patient’s Prerogative: A Defence of Self Defined Decisional Competence Dr Anson Fehross University Of Sydney; University Of New South Wales; Macquarie University
	End of Day Two
1700 – 1800	AABHL Annual General Meeting \| P 514
1900 – 2300	Conference Dinner \| The Jetty Southbank

WEDNESDAY 22 November 2023

0800 – 0900	Registration Desk Open
0800 – 0900	Forum- Teaching Health Law and Ethics \| Room 506 This forum provides an opportunity for Health Law teachers to get to know each other and exchange ideas around some of the core aspects of health law education. Topics discussed will include, for example: • How to choose which areas of health law to include, and which to exclude; • Forms of assessment; • Possible guest speakers
	Opening Plenary \| P 514
0900 – 0910	Welcome and Housekeeping
0910 – 1010	Keynote Speaker Law and the making of life: regulating embryo models and brain organoids Professor Emily Jackson Professor of Law, London School of Economics and Political Science Sponsored by Chair: Prof. Tina Cockburn
1010 – 1015	Move to concurrent rooms
	Concurrent Session 7
	7.1	7.2	7.3	7.4	7.5
Room	P 504	P 506A	P 506	P 512	P 514
Chair	Dr Rebekah McWhirter	Prof Angus James Dawson	Dr Eliana Close	Ademola Kazeem Fayemi	Dr Ben Gray
1015 – 1030	BMI, microaggressions and weight stigma (V) Dr Taryn Knox Bioethics Centre, University Of Otago	Health equity and ethics: is there a role for ethical theory? Dr Monique Jonas University Of Auckland	Online modules to improve health professionals’ end-of-life law knowledge and confidence: A pre-post survey study Dr Rachel Feeney Australian Centre For Health Law Research, QUT	Ethical Considerations in the Development of Animal-Exclusive Antimicrobials: Perspectives from New Zealand Stakeholders in the food production animal sector Nic Liebergreen Bioethics Centre, University of Otago	Does ethics education prepare students for early clinical practice? Interpreting the findings of a qualitative study Dr Simon Walker University Of Otago
1030 – 1045	Floors and ceilings: coordination, coherence and consistency in the relationship between therapeutic goods regulation and consumer protection A/Prof. Marco Rizzi University Of Western Australia Dr Penny Gleeson Deakin University		Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples and end of life decision-making Penny Neller Australian Centre for Health Law Research, QUT	Promoting Ethical Antimicrobial Stewardship via Species-Specific Development and Use Dr Mike King Bioethics Centre, University Of Otago	Guardians of the Metaverse?: A critical discussion regarding healthcare professionals’ roles and responsibilities in the age of social media (V) Hoi Yan Corliss Wong HKUMed, The University Of Hong Kong
1045 – 1115	Morning Tea \| Exhibition space
	Concurrent Session 8
	8.1	8.2	8.3	8.4	8.5
Room	P 504	P 506A	P 506	P 512	P 514
Chair	Assoc. Prof Marco Rizzi	Dr Sam Boyle	Dr Eliana Close	Dr Supriya Subramani	Sam Roach
1115 – 1130	Beyond Deficit Models: Rethinking Public Engagement in Empirical Bioethics Research About Healthcare AI Emma Frost University Of Wollongong	Lost somewhere in-between – the moral economy of essential work in non-healthcare settings during a pandemic A/Prof Chris Degeling University of Wollongong	Choosing death and saving lives? Organ donation within the voluntary assisted dying process Prof. Jackie Leach Scully UNSW	PANEL Embryo-Related Research and Innovation: Changed or Changing Regulatory Landscape? Tess Whitton University of Melbourne Dr Bernadette Richards University of Queensland Dr Tamra Lysaght National University of Singapore Dr Molly Johnston Monash University Prof. Jonathan Ives University of Bristol	PANEL Consent for Student Involvement in Patient Care: Developments and Tensions in New Zealand Law and Medical Education Dr Simon Walker Josephine Johnston University Of Otago
1130 – 1145	Rights-Based Approach to Counter Exacerbating Health Inequities in the Regulatory Governance of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare Dr Wai Loon Calvin Ho University Of Hong Kong	An argument for pandemic risk management using a multidisciplinary One Health approach to governance: an Australian case study Dr Katie Woolaston Queensland University of Technology	Key challenges to providing assisted dying in Belgium: a qualitative study of health professionals’ experiences Madeleine Archer Australian Centre for Health Law Research, QUT
1145 – 1200	Should AI-enabled Medical Devices be Explainable? Dr Rita Matulionyte Macquarie University Law School	Setting the public health ethics agenda on emerging threats: Nipah virus as a priority pathogen Dr Tess Johnson University Of Oxford	A fate worse than death? Persons living with dementia and access to VAD in Australia A/Prof. Kerstin Braun University Of Southern Queensland
1200 – 1215	From Brain Reading to Mind Reading: Evidence for Neurorights? A/Prof. Frederic Gilbert University Of Tasmania	Why is public health law controversial? Prof. Roger Magnusson Sydney Law School	How the nature of patients’ and family caregivers’ experiences of assisted dying impacts regulatory action: A qualitative study of Australia and Canada Ruthie Jeanneret QUT
1215 – 1230	Emergent technologies and medicine Helen Tung Tung Chambers		Are we ready to consider organ donation after voluntary assisted dying in Australia? (V) A/Prof. Neera Bhatia Deakin University	Applying the Open Future Argument to the Pre-implantation Embryo (V) Dr Michelle de Souza University of New England	Exploring ethical theory via a personal moral dilemma assessment piece Dr David Hunter University Of Adelaide
1230 – 1245
1245 – 1345	Lunch \| Exhibition space
1255 – 1345	Lunch Session Empirical Ethics \| Room 506
	Concurrent Session 9
	9.1	9.2	9.3	9.4	9.5
Room	P 504	P 506A	P 506	P 512	P 514
Chair	Dr Michaela E Okninski		Aahana Dudani / Prof Shih-Ning Then	Dr Sarah Heynemann	Dr Ben Gray
1345 – 1400	What does ‘dementia capability’ mean for the legal profession? Perspectives of legal practitioners and people with lived experience of dementia (V) Karen Donner Faculty Of Law, University Of Technology Sydney		An analysis of health licensure laws in Taiwan- from a perspective of professionalism Wan-tsui Chiang National Cheng Kung University Department of Law	PANEL The Ethics of Sequencing Every Baby at Birth Dr Lisa Dive University of Technology Sydney Josephine Johnston University of Otago Prof. Angus Dawson National University Of Singapore Isabella Holmes Prof. Ainsley Newson University of Sydney	PANEL Regulatory and ethical problems in moving health data around: Same story in different contexts Tamra Lysaght Owen Schaefer National University Of Singapore Dr James Scheibner Flinders University Dr Rebekah McWhirter Deakin University Dr Megan Prictor University of Melbourne Prof. Wendy Lipworth Macquarie University
1400 – 1415	‘Missing persons’: absent voices of people with dementia in the Australian aged care royal commission Kristina Chelberg Queensland University Of Technology		Equitably financing healthcare for migrant workers in Singapore Mathavi Senguttuvan Hillary Chua Ryan Friets Centre for Biomedical Ethics (NUS)
1415 – 1430	Reframing Residential Aged Care as communities within social and environmental communities to empower human flourishing Lachie Green Queensland Bioethics Centre, Australian Catholic University		Healthcare Ethics Literature in Pakistan: A Scoping Review of Thirteen Years (V) Dr Annum Ishtiaq Liaquat National Hospital & Medical College
1430 – 1445	Barriers to justice in New Zealand’s Health and Disability Complaints regime: Recent Critiques (V) Prof. Joanna Manning Faculty of Law		Solidarity as a Guiding Value in global health research and its Decolonization Ademola K. Fayemi Queensland Bioethics Centre, Faculty of Theology and Philosophy, Australian Catholic University
1445 – 1500					Beyond primary use: Establishing a social license for sharing general practice data for research Dr Annette Braunack-Mayer Acheev, University Of Wollongong
	Closing Plenary \| P 514
1500 – 1515	Conference Close
	End of Day Three

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