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Dr Saumya Chanana1 1Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University The development of artificial intelligence (AI) applications in healthcare continues to grow at a rapid rate. The proposed benefits of AI use include improvements in patient care, efficiency, and...

Ms Lisa Fry1 1Barwon Health, 2LaTrobe University Research Governance plays an important role in mitigating the risks associated with clinical research and ensuring research merit and rigour. However, responsible research oversight should not compromise efficiency. The global Covid 19 pandemic...

Mr Richard Larsen1 1Barwon Health Background The population of most Western nations consist of multiple ethnic groups, many of whom are from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds. Over one fifth (21%) of the Australian population speak a language other...

Ms Aminath Ali Mariya1 1PhD Candidate, University Of Adelaide In Australia, patient harm arising from the DePuy hip implants, the Poly Implant Prothèse implants, and the transvaginal mesh implant devices, exposed the perils and limitations of the existing medical device...

Dr Stella Gwini1 1Barwon Health, 2Deakin University Introduction Research dissemination is an important step for knowledge translation and practice change. Item 8 of the World Medical Association’s Declaration of Helsinki states that research dissemination is an ethical obligation, and this...

Ms Tess Whitton1 1Melbourne Law School Adaptive governance (AG) is a burgeoning approach to address the socio-technical innovation challenges of health research and technology governance. One challenge relates to developing socially-acceptable technology. Considering AG for COVID tracing apps, Blasimme and...

Dr Gabriel Watts1 1Sydney Health Ethics This presentation examines the relationship between the potential for genomic data to yield new information through reanalysis, and the moral obligations incurred by those administering genomic tests. The two sides – descriptive and normative...

Mr Joel Grieger1 1University of Adelaide – Law School As a broad generalisation, the core concepts of medical negligence are understood by healthcare professionals. It is accepted that, as providers of health care, they owe their patients a duty of...

Professor Jing-Bao Nie1 1Bioethics Centre, University of Otago Where and how on earth did SARS-Cov-2 come from? Wat it zoonotic (natural) or lab-related (humanmade)? An adequate answer, one beyond reasonable doubt, is morally mandatory for not merely satisfying curiosity for...

Professor Robert Sparrow1, Mr Josh Hatherley1 1Monash University Machine learning (ML) has the potential to facilitate ‘continual learning’ in medicine, in which an ML system continues to evolve in response to exposure to new data even after being deployed in...