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Professor Alastair V. Campbell CorrFRSE
MA (Hons), BD, ThD
Chen Su Lan Centennial Chair in Medical Ethics
Director
Email: medavc@nus.edu.sg
Contact No: 6516 7201
Professor Alastair V. Campbell is the Director of CBmE. Prior to this, he was Professor of Ethics in Medicine in the Medical School of the University of Bristol and Director of its Centre for Ethics in Medicine. He is a former President of the International Association of Bioethics. With keen interest in classical music, reading and skiing, Professor Campbell is also a prolific writer with more than 30 books and book chapters as well as dictionary entries to his name; and many more articles in refereed journals. Recent books include Health as Liberation (Pilgrim Press, 1995) Medical Ethics, 4th Edition, co-authored with Grant Gillett and Gareth Jones (Oxford University Press, 2005) and The Body in Bioethics (Routledge-Cavendish, 2009). He was until recently a member of the Medical Ethics Committee of the British Medical Association and Chairman of the Ethics and Governance Council of UK Biobank. In 1999, Professor Campbell was given the prestigious Henry Knowles Beecher award, which recognizes his lifetime of contribution to ethics and the life sciences, and his excellence in scholarship, research and ethical inquiry. He is also Honorary Vice-President of the Institute of Medical Ethics, UK and an elected Fellow of The Hastings Center, New York.
Professor Campbell is a member of the Bioethics Advisory Committee to the Singapore Government, of the National Medical Ethics Committee of the Ministry of Health. He is also a Board Member of the Health Sciences Authority of Singapore and National Medical Research Council.
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Professor Paul Ulhas Macneill
MA, LLB, PhD.
Health ethics, Law and Professionalism in Medicine
Email: medpum@nus.edu.sg
Contact No: 6516 7903
Professor Paul Ulhas Macneill is the Director of the undergraduate program in ethics in the NUS School of Medicine MBBS program. He previously taught ethics and law in medicine at the University of Sydney and University of New South Wales. He is a former President of the Australasian Bioethics Association and was Convener and President of the 7th World Congress of Bioethics held in Sydney in 2004. He is a Professor (Honorary Associate) of the Centre for Values, Ethics & the Law in Medicine, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney.
Paul Macneill is the Co-ordinator of the Arts Bioethics Network within the International Association of Bioethics; was an organiser of the Arts and Bioethics program in the 9th World Congress of Bioethics in Croatia (2008); and an organiser of arts events in the 10th World Congress of Bioethics in Singapore (2010). His interest in art and bioethics derives from perceiving ethics, in its fullest expression, as an aesthetic. From this perspective ethics is a seamless element in the fabric of good professional practice. He has practised yoga for many years and has a keen interest in various Asian approaches to ethics and in contrasting these with European approaches.
His most recent publications are ‘The arts and medicine: a challenging relationship’; ‘Art and bioethics: shifts in understanding across genres’; ‘Professionalism as inspiration and discernment in educating medical students and trainees’; ‘Attitudes of physicians and public to pharmaceutical industry gifts’; ‘Balancing ethical reasoning and emotional sensibility’; and ‘Yoga and Ethics: The Importance of Practice’.
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Adjunct Associate Professor Calvin Fones
MBBS, MMed (Psychiatry), FAMS
Senior Consultant Psychiatrist
Email: pcmfslc@nus.edu.sg
Contact No: 6516 7201
Dr Calvin Fones is Adjunct Associate Professor with the Centre for Biomedical Ethics and the Department of Psychological Medicine. A Consultant Psychiatrist in private practice at Gleneagles Medical Centre, he continues to be active in teaching and research in Medical Ethics and clinical Psychiatry.
He was previously the Head of the Department of Psychological Medicine, NUS and Chief of the Clinical Department at National University Hospital. He played a major role in early initiatives to introduce ethics teaching into the NUS medical curriculum. He also started the Ethics Consult Service at National University Hospital and chaired its Bioethics Committee.
Dr Fones has spent stints at the Kennedy Institute of Bioethics, Georgetown University, Washington DC and the Ethox Centre, Oxford University, UK, in professional development in biomedical ethics.
His areas of interest in ethics include clinical ethics in psychiatry, refusal of treatment, decision-making and mental competency, medical professionalism and communications skills that enhance ethical clinical practice. Top
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Adjunct Associate Professor Chin Jing Jih
MBBS (S'pore), FRCP (Edin), FAMS (Geriatric Medicine),
Cert Health Care Ethics (Wash U, Seattle)
Chairman, Division of Integrated & Community Care,
Senior Consultant Geriatrician, Dept of Continuing and Community Care
Tan Tock Seng Hospital
Email: Jing_Jih_Chin@ttsh.com.sg
Dr Chin Jing Jih is Divisional Chairman, Integrated and Community care and a Senior Consultant Geriatrician in the Department of Continuing and Community Care at Tan Tock Seng Hospital. He is an appointed member of the Singapore Medical Council. At the healthcare cluster level, he chairs the is the National Healthcare Group (NHG) Research Ethics Committee and is also Programme Director for the NHG Research Quality Assurance.
In addition, he is a member of the National Medical Ethics Committee and Course Director for the Advanced Specialty Training (AST) Course on medical ethics, professionalism and health law. At the Singapore Medical Association (SMA), he serves as Executive Director of the Centre for Medical Ethics and Professionalism, and is Chairperson of the SMA Ethics Committee.
In year 2000, Dr Chin completed a research fellowship in dementia at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a clinical attachment in ethics consultation at the St Francis International Centre for Health Care Ethics, Honolulu. He has a keen academic interest in both dementia care and in issues related to healthcare ethics, medical professionalism and doctor-patient communication. He was recently awarded the Healthcare Humanity Award in recognition for his contributions in promoting awareness and practice of clinical ethics among healthcare professionals.
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Dr. Benjamin J. Capps
BSc (Hons), MA, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Email: medbjc@nus.edu.sg
Contact No: 6516 7597
Director of Graduate Studies, Centre for Biomedical Ethics.
Benjamin joined the Centre for Biomedical Ethics in 2008. He was previously a Research Associate at the Centre for Ethics in Medicine, University of Bristol, UK.
He read for a Doctorate in Medical Ethics (awarded in 2003) and completed a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Bristol (2004-6), both funded by the Wellcome Trust’s Biomedical Ethics Programme.
Ben has recently been appointed to the Pro-Tem National Oversight Committee for Human-Animal Combinations in Stem Cell Research (Ministry of Health, Singapore).
Benjamin is a Co-PI on the FP7 project, 'EPOCH: The role of ethics in public policy-making: the case of enhancement.' He is leading the workpackage: Understanding governance, policies and regulatory structures of the European Union in relation to enhancement technologies in the global context, and which will involve a major conference in Singapore in June 2012. The project, funded by the European Commission, is coordinated by the Centre for Ethics in Medicine, University of Bristol, UK. For further details on Ben’s current research, please see the Centre’s Research page.
He has coordinated a number of projects, including an ethics review for the UK’s Department of Trade and Industry Foresight project: Brain Science, Addiction and Drugs (2004-5); a commissioned report on ‘Public Interest’ and ‘Public Good’ as Applied to UK Biobank Access Decision-Making for the UK Biobank’s Ethics and Governance Council (2007-8); and an international multi-centre project on New Developments in Neuroscience and Genetics (2007-8). This latter project was funded by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, an agency of the European Union, and the report was published in 2009.
Benjamin is an Honorary Associate at the ESRC Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics (Cesagen, Cardiff University, UK); and has been a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics, National University of Singapore (2007 & 2008); University of Queensland (2008); and the Hastings Centre, New York (2005 and 2011).
His primary research interests are in stem cell science and ethics; and neuroethics, drugs (mis)use and addiction research. His research also focuses on the development of jurisprudential and political theory in the use of human rights concepts in biotechnology and bio-medicine.
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Dr Jacqueline Chin
BA (Hons), B. Phil, D. Phil,
Assistant Professor
Email:medjcjl@nus.edu.sg
Contact No: 6516 8039
Dr Jacqueline Chin was educated at the National University of Singapore, taking First Class Honours in Philosophy in 1990. She went on to earn the B.Phil. and D.Phil. degrees in Moral Philosophy on a Rhodes Scholarship (1991-94), awarded by the Rhodes Trust, University of Oxford.
Formerly Senior Tutor and Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy, where she taught Ethics, she left teaching for a stint as a business journalist and editor of the Asian Banker Journal. From 2000-2004, she lived in the United States and pursued her interest in the fine arts and communication arts in both Washington DC and Los Angeles, contributing research and panel illustrations to the Smithsonian Institution's National Air & Space Museum. Upon returning to Singapore, she taught courses in the Philosophy of Art and Feminist Philosophy at NUS, and Creative Writing at the Temasek Polytechnic. She was jointly appointed to a Visiting Fellowship and a Research Fellowship at the Department of Philosophy and the Centre for Biomedical Ethics in 2007.
At CBmE, her responsibilities include teaching and development of the undergraduate medical ethics programme at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, as well as co-teaching ethics modules for CBmE's postgraduate programme, the Master of Public Health programme, and the Faculty of Dentistry. She holds a courtesy joint appointment at the NUS Department of Philosophy.
Dr Chin was a Visiting Scholar at the Hastings Center, New York in November, 2008, where she conducted research on privacy issues and proceduralist approaches to conflict resolution in bioethics. She is an ex-officio member of the Advisory Board of the International Network of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (FAB) and Co-Chair of the Organizing Committee of the 8th International Congress of the FAB, and a member of the Organizing Committee of the International Association of Bioethics (IAB) 2010 World Congress of Bioethics. She was recently appointed to a subcommittee responsible for developing an ethical framework for advance care planning, under the auspices of the National Medical Ethics Committee.
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W Calvin Ho
JSD (Candidate), LLM, MSc, LLB (Hons), BSc (Hons),Dip (Statistics)
Assistant Professor
Email: medhwlc@nus.edu.sg
Contact No: 6516 7232
Calvin Ho read law at Cornell University (New York), National University of Singapore, and University of Cambridge (England). While at Cornell, he also received training in science and technology studies and legal anthropology. In addition, he read sociology and economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and at the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London), and is trained in mathematical statistics as well.
He practiced law in London and Singapore, and was Senior Research Associate with the Bioethics Advisory Committee, an expert body appointed by the government of Singapore to provide advice and recommendations on human biomedical research, from October 2001 to May 2011. In 2010, he was co-editor (with Associate Professor John M Elliott and Dr Sylvia SN Lim) of the monograph “Bioethics in Singapore: The Ethical Microcosm”. This book analyses the ways in which an ethical framework for biomedical research has been established in Singapore over the past decade. Apart from law practice and policy work, Calvin has taught at Cornell University and at Singapore Institute of Management University.
Calvin has published articles and book chapters on biomedical law and ethics, intellectual property law, law of banking and other financial services, conflict of laws and scientific integrity. He has served as the deputy editor of the Singapore Law Review, associate editor of the Cornell International Law Journal, and assistant guest editor of the Singapore Academy of Law Journal. His research interests include research policy analysis, property and intellectual property rights, informational confidentiality and privacy, comparative analysis, and economic analysis of healthcare systems. Top
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Dr Peter Loke
MA (Healthcare Ethics & Law), MB BCh BAO, LLB (Hons), GCIARb
Adjunct Senior Lecturer
Regional Medical Adviser, Syngenta Asia Pacific Pte Ltd
Email:Peter.Loke@syngenta.com
Contact No: 6516 7201
Dr Peter Loke is an adjunct lecturer in the Centre for Biomedical Ethics. He is the Regional Medical Adviser for Syngenta Asia Pacific Pte Ltd, where he deals with medical issues relating to crop protection products, and is also a family medicine practitioner in private practice.
Having had long-standing interest in both the legal and ethical aspects of medical practice, he holds academic qualifications in medicine, law and healthcare ethics. Apart from his clinical experience, he has had experience with drug and clinical trial regulations having previously spent 3 years with Health Sciences Authority, the drug regulatory body in Singapore. He has widespread experience with medical stakeholders in the entire Asia-Pacific region and has dealt with issue relating to toxicology, occupational health, suicide and consumer health in the countries of the region.
Dr Loke is a member of the Ethics Committee of the Singapore Medical Association and a faculty of the Advanced Specialty Training (AST) Course on medical ethics, professionalism and health law. Top
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Leonardo D. de Castro
AB, MA, PhD
Senior Research Fellow
Email: decastro@nus.edu.sg
Contact No: 6516 8742
Prof. Leonardo D. de Castro heads the Centre’s program for Capacity Development in Biomedical Ethics. He has more than 3 decades of experience in teaching philosophy and a decade as consultant for international agencies. As member of the UNESCO Advisory Expert Committee for the Teaching of Ethics, he helped draft a Core Curriculum on Bioethics. He was Vice Chair of the UNESCO International Bioethics Committee, Secretary of the International Association of Bioethics, and Vice Chair of the Asian Bioethics Association. At the University of the Philippines, he set up a regional Research Ethics Training Program with support from US-NIH. As consultant to the European Commission, he helped establish and train the National Ethics Committees for Health Research of Cambodia and Lao PDR.
As consultant to WHO, Prof. de Castro participated in drafting the 2008 WHO Guiding Principles on Human Cell, Tissue and Organ Transplantation. He has been a member of the Steering Committee for the International Summit on Organ Trafficking and the Asian Working Group against Organ Trafficking.
Awards won by Prof. de Castro include the Takashi Fujii Prize of the International Federation of Social Science Organizations, a National Book Award (Manila Critics Circle), an Outstanding Publication Award (University of the Philippines), and an Outstanding Monograph Award (National Academy of Science and Technology – Philippines). He sits on the Board of several bioethics journals.
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Sally Campbell
Adjunct. Senior Research Fellow
Email: medcampb@nus.edu.sg
Contact No: 6516 1395
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Lisbeth Witthofft Nielsen
MA in Theology (cand.theol.)
Adjunct. Research fellow
Email: medlwn@nus.edu.sg
Contact No: 6516 4157
Ms. Lisbeth W. Nielsen joined CBmE in April 2008. She is a Research Fellow on the Centre programme for capacity development in biomedical ethics, where she is helping with conducting of workshops and development of training programmes in research integrity. Furthermore, she is a research fellow under CBmE’s collaboration in the European Commission funded project “Homeland Security, Biometric Identification & personal Detection Ethics (HIDE) (7th Framework Programme).
She was previously employed at Centre for Ethics in Medicine, University of Bristol, UK where she was a project manager in the project ENHANCE, Enhancing Human Capacities: Ethics, Regulation and European Policy (2005-2007; European Commission funded project under the 6th Framework Programme); and at Centre for Ethics and Law (CER), Copenhagen, Denmark, where she was the CER’s representative in the projects: BIOTETHED, Deepening by Research. Broadening to Future Applications and New EU Members, permeating Education to Young Scientists (6th Framework Programme): and, Bio-T-Ethics, Strategic Initiatives to Develop an Interdisciplinary Organization that Contributes research and Provides Education on Ethical Aspects of Biotechnology (2002-2005; 5th Framework Programme). In 2004 she was member of the planning committee of the second Bio-T-Ethics inter-European course on biotechnology ethics, held in Portofino, Italy.
Her main research interest lies in analysis of meanings of nature and their role in in ethical debates on biotechnology; Analysis of ethical principles and their role in relation to development and implementation of ethical guidelines or policy making on biotechnology; Ethical issues in relation to the climate change adaptation and mitigation, including analysis of moral barriers to climate awareness and acceptance of biotechnologies as part of strategies towards climate change adaptation.
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Teoh Chin Leong
MA, BA (Hons)
Research fellow
Email:medteoh@nus.edu.sg
Contact No: 6516 2056
Teoh Chin Leong is Adjunct Research Fellow at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics, National University of Singapore.
He is a doctoral student at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, focusing on issues in the public justification of bioethics policies.
With interests in ethical & political philosophy, applied ethics, and educational theory & practice, he helped set up,
and subsequently headed, the Raffles Philosophy program in Raffles Girls' School (Secondary), from 2004-2008.
Amongst public outreach activities with CBmE, he was a member of the team that helped enhance the bioethics exhibits on display at the Science Centre, Singapore, in 2010. He focuses mainly on the development of public education programs and bioethics education in schools
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Dr Tamra Lysaght
BSc(Biotechnology) BBus, Ph.D
Research Fellow
Email: tamra.lysaght@nuhs.edu.sg
Contact no: 6516 3331
Dr Tamra Lysaght started with the Centre for Biomedical Ethics in 2009. She recently graduated with her Ph.D from the University of Sydney in association with the Unit for History and Philosophy of Science and the Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine. Using empirical research methods, her thesis broadly considered the social, ethical and political implications of contested science in public discourse and focused specifically on the use of science claims in public policy disputes surrounding stem cell research in Australia.
Dr Lysaght is currently working on four projects at CBmE. One project considers the ethical issues surrounding a study being conducted at the Institute of Mental Health into the identification of genetic and biological factors for the prodromal phase of schizophrenia. Another involves a revision of the World Health Organisation’s ‘Guidelines for Obtaining Informed Consent for the Procurement and Use of Human Tissues, Cells and Fluids in Research’. The third project aims to assist the Human Genome Organisation’s ethics committee in generating an interim policy statement and in-depth analysis of the ethical issues surrounding whole genome sequencing technologies. As a continuation of her Ph.D research, she is also working on a project that will examine the status of stem cell science in Singapore.
Dr Lysaght has a background in science (biotechnology) and business. She has also done previous empirical research into student attitudes towards the teaching of ethics in tertiary biotechnology science education. Her research interests are in empirical ethics using combined qualitative and quantitative methods. Her long term goals are to develop frameworks that can be used to inform science and health policy. Top
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Voo Teck Chuan
MA, BA (Hons)
Honorary Adjunct Research Fellow
Email: medvtc@nus.edu.sg
Teck Chuan is involved in the teaching and development of CBmE’s Health Ethics, Law and Professionalism undergraduate programme. He is doing his PhD at The Institute of Science, Ethics and Innovation and The Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, School of Law, The University of Manchester, under a Wellcome Trust Studentship. He has published in various bioethical areas including organ transplantation, research ethics, medical ethics education and public health. He served as rapporteur for a World Health Organization Technical Consultation in 2009. He was a Visiting Scholar at The Hastings Center, New York, in 2009. He was a Research Fellow at CBmE from 2008-09. Top
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Syahirah A. Karim
MSc, BSc (Merit)
Research Associate
Email:syahirah_a.karim@nus.edu.sg
Contact No: 6516 4332
Syahirah joined CBmE in July 2009 as an Education Coordinator for the Undergraduate Ethics & Law Section in curriculum development, before moving on to be a Research Assistant in CBmE. As a Research Assistant, she continued to be involved in the Undergraduate Ethics & Law section, which included working on the study evaluating the new ethics curriculum on first year undergraduates and co-authoring the publication of the study.
She was a member of the Congress Secretariat for the 10th World Congress of Bioethics in 2010, and assisted the Chairman of the Scientific Committee in the planning of the congress programme. She has presented a paper at the European Association of Centres of Medical Ethics (EACME) Annual Conference 2010, and was an invited speaker for the closing plenary of the 7th International Conference on Clinical Ethics and Consultation.
She is now a Research Associate, on the Clinical Ethics Network for Training, Research and Support (CENTRES) project, an initiative funded by the Ministry of Health (MOH) to link hospital clinical ethics committees and to develop capacity in clinical ethics consultation. A graduate from Durham University with an MSc in Public Policy and Health, her research interests are in the area of health policy, particularly in the influence of socioeconomic factors on health outcomes.
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Iris Wee
Assistant Manager
Email: iriswee@nus.edu.sg
Contact No: 6516 1029
As the Centre's Administrator, Iris attends to administrative requirements (Finance, Human Resources, Planning, Events Organization and General Matters) relating to the Centre. In her current capacity, she is also actively involved in the planning and implementation of the Undergraduate Ethics curriculum within the curriculum of the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. Iris was previously from the healthcare industry and had working experience in patient-relations and ISO/ SQC accreditation activities.
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Karen Teo
Executive
Email: medtysk@nus.edu.sg
Contact No: 6516 8141
Karen provides secretarial support to the Centre’s Director for Undergraduate Programme. Her scope of work also involves in the planning and implementation of the Undergraduate Ethics curriculum within the curriculum of the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. Karen was previously from the healthcare as well as education industry and had working experience in dealing with medical indemnity as well as planning for healthcare and business program.
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Clare Peng
Executive
Email: medpstc@nus.edu.sg
Contact No: 6516 7747
Clare provides administrative support for the grant project as well as secretariat support to Programme Director. Her scope of work includes assisting the research team to achieve the funding initiatives as set out in the research grant such as organizing conferences/workshops/training programme, arranging of visiting fellowships and study visits and provide support to the online bioethics journal. Apart from that, she is also providing administrative support to the team in developing, establishing and coordinating the Centre’s Graduate Programme.
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Rosnizah Binte Mohd Ali
Management Assistant Officer
Email: rosnizah@nus.edu.sg
Contact No: 6516 7201
Rosnizah provides secretarial support to the Centre’s Director. Her scope of work also involves supporting in the administrative work pertaining to CBmE.
Having come from the Education industry, some of her experience in student affairs and curriculum work comes in handy, with the integration of Ethics modules in the revised Undergraduate curriculum under the longitudinal track, called HELP (Health Ethics, Law and Professionalism).
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