Month: September 2022

Mr Stephen Honeybul1 1Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital The advent of the COVID-19 pandemic with its extreme pressure on resources and ICU beds has prompted many healthcare providers to consider more fully the potentially futile nature of some treatments and resources...

Prof Dianne Nicol1 1University Of Tasmania As genome editing technology advances in sophistication and reliability, it will be necessary for policy makers to decide whether or not they should allow heritable forms of genome editing and genome editing research involving...

Dr Julian Koplin1, Chanelle  Warton1 1Monash University Academic impact – defined largely in terms of citations of one’s work within academia – is crucial to one’s academic career. But research can – and should – influence the world beyond the...

Dr Julian Koplin1 1Monash University The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) has recently released the 2021 update of their guidelines. The update includes detailed new recommendations on human-animal chimera research. This talk argues that the ISSCR recommendations fail...

Ms Jane Tiller1,2 1Australian Genomics 2Monash University Background: Genomic risk information for medically-actionable conditions has relevance for patients’ blood relatives. However, cascade testing uptake in at-risk families is <50%, and the burden of contacting relatives is a significant barrier. Health...

Dr Marc Trabsky1 1La Trobe University Medico-legal investigations into sudden, unnatural, violent and accidental deaths require coroners to ascertain the identity of the deceased, determine the cause of the death and make recommendations for reducing the occurrence of preventable deaths....

Dr Megan Prictor1 1University Of Melbourne Strong evidence from clinical trials supports the practice of giving patients an audio recording of their healthcare consultations: it improves patients’ knowledge and understanding and their sense of feeling supported. Smartphone availability means that...

Mr Craig Stanbury1 1Monash University Reducing the world’s population is a significant variable that can be altered to help decrease global emissions. Most of the discussion surrounding this variable has concentrated on the moral issues involved: to what extent is...

Assistant Professor Marisa Almeida Araújo1 1Lusíada University The twenty-first century is still offering – old and new – forms for inequalities and exclusion. Complex issues arise from biotechnologies, in particular from Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) that, in many cases, can...

Dr Tamra Lysaght1, Dr  Gerald Owen  Schaefer, Dr Teck Chuan Voo, Dr Hwee Lin Wee, Dr Roy Joseph 1National University Of Singapore High degrees of uncertainty and a lack of effective therapeutic treatments have characterized the COVID-19 pandemic and the...