Dr Richard Huxtable, Ph.D., MA, LLB
Visiting period: 23 September to 23 November 2006
Web-link: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/ethicsinmedicine/staff/huxtable.html

Dr Richard Huxtable is Senior Lecturer in Medical Law and Ethics and Deputy Director, Centre for Ethics in Medicine, University of Bristol, UK. He has a broad interest in the legal aspects of health care, although he primarily researches end of life care, and the treatment of children. He has published in legal, ethical and scientific journals, has made various contributions to local and national and international media, and has delivered papers at a number of academic fora. Dr Huxtable is also an advisor to the Clinical Ethics Committee, Royal United Hospital, Bath, and is on the editorial committee for the web-site of the UK Clinical Ethics Network. During his period at CBmE, Dr Huxtable worked on a book on euthanasia, to be published later this year.

A/Prof Jing-Bao Nie, PhD, MA, MMed, BMed
Visiting period: 14 January to 15 February 2008
Email: jing-bao.nie@stonebow.otago.ac.nz
Web-link: http://hs3.otago.ac.nz/hs_staff/dsm/FMPro?-db=staff_profiles.fp5&-format=profile.html&-lay=data&name_first=JING-BAO&name_last=NIE&-find=

Dr. Jing-Bao Nie is Associate Professor in the Bioethics Centre, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, New Zealand. He was trained in traditional Chinese medicine in mainland China and medical humanities and social sciences in North America. He published over 60 journal articles and book chapters. His book Behind the Silence: Chinese Voices on Abortion (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005) has been positively reviewed in nearly 20 major international periodicals in medicine, bioethics, Chinese/Asian studies, sociology, and demography. His forthcoming works include Medical Ethics in China: Stereotypes, Reality and Cross-Cultural Dialogue (Georgetown University Press), a co-edited volume (Routlege) and a monograph on Japanese wartime medical atrocities, and three chapters in the Cambridge World History of Medical Ethics. His current research focuses on the ideologies and ethics of China’s birth control programme. A/Prof. Nie serves on the advisory or editorial boards of 9 major English and Chinese journals.  He co-chaired the 6th World Conference of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics and is an elected board member of the International Association of Bioethics.  

Professor Nicola Peart, LLM, Drs (jur)
Visiting period: 20 February to 19 April 2008
Email: nicola.peart@stonebow.otago.ac.nz
Web-link: http://www.otago.ac.nz/law/staff/nicola_peart.html

Nicola Peart is a Professor in the Law Faculty at the University of Otago, New Zealand. She grew up in the Netherlands, completing her undergraduate law degree at the University of Leiden. Her Masters degree is from the University of Cape Town, where she began her academic career in law. She was appointed to the Faculty of Law at the University of Otago in 1987, where she continued her research in family property law and became interested in medical law. Much of her research in medical law has centered on life before birth, most recently contributing three chapters to Skegg and Paterson Medical Law in New Zealand published by Thomson Brookers in 2006, and a co-authored chapter on pre-implantation genetic diagnosis in Volume I of Genes, Society and the Future (2007). The latter is a publication of research carried out as part of the Human Genome Research Project, principal investigator Professor Mark Henaghan, funded by the New Zealand Legal Research Foundation. Medical Law in New Zealand has been positively reviewed in several New Zealand and international journals. Professor Peart also has an interest in the law governing health research. She has served on health research ethics committees, developed the ethical guidelines for the conduct of health research with children in New Zealand, and is a co-author and co-editor of The Law of Research University of Otago Press (2004). She is also the lay member of the Scientific Committee of the New Zealand Heart Foundation.  

Dr Jonathan MacKenney
Visiting period: 20 October to 20 December 2008

Jonathan Mackenney is a clinician from Bristol UK, he studied Bioethics in the University of Bristol’s medical faculty and has since been regularly involved in teaching ethics to undergraduate medical students. In 2006, he was a member of the inaugural clinical ethics advisory group for the United Bristol NHS Healthcare Trust. His interests are in stem cell research, cloning and the ethics of medical treatment of sexual offenders. His work in the NUS includes setting up the graduate module in Bioethics and Biolaw, undergraduate teaching, and writing a chapter on stem cell ethics with Dr. Benjamin Capps.

Prof Peter Sýkora, PhD, RNDr. (Doctor of Natural Sciences)
Visiting period: 25 January to 31 March 2009
Email: sykora@infovek.sk
Web-link: http://www.infovek.sk/~sykora/HTML/CV/CV.htm

Dr Peter Sýkora is a Professor in Philosophy, Department of Philosophy and Director, Centre for Bioethics at the University of Saints Cyril and Methodius (UCM) in Trnava, Slovakia. He is originally molecular biologist (graduated from Charles University in Prague) who has turned to philosophy. Prior to this he had been working on antibiotic resistance and plasmid evolution for 15 years (published in J. Bacteriol, Plasmid and Journal of Theoretical Biology). His main research areas include bioethics, biopolicy, ontology/metaphysics, evolutionary psychology and anthropology. He is specially interested in the problem of altruistic donation of human organs, tissues and cells for transplantation and research. Recently he has published a chapter Altruism in Medical Donations Reconsidered: The Reciprocity Approach in a book by M. Steinmann, P. Sykora and U. Wiesing (eds.): Altruism reconsidered: exploring new approaches to property in human tissue (Ashgate 2009). His most recent books in Slovak include Ethical Aspects of Early Human Embryos in Biomedicine (UCM 2010), Ontology of Twilight Zone (Schola Philosophica 2008), Bioethical Challenges to Philosophy (2008, co-edited with R. Balak). He is also an author of entries on Aristotle, Modern Darwinism, Essentialism, Sociobiology and Teleology in the Encyclopedia of Anthropology (H. James Birx, Ed., Sage 2006). He is a member of the Slovak National Ethics Committee.

Prof Kath Melia, University of Edinburgh
Visiting period: 15 April to 18 May 2009
Email: k.melia@ed.ac.uk
Web-link: http://www.health.ed.ac.uk/nursing/staff/kath-melia.htm

Professor Kath Melia graduated from the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Manchester, in 1973 before moving to Edinburgh to work in intensive care. She joined the Nursing Research Unit [University of Edinburgh] as a Research Associate working on a study of ward organization. During that time she completed a doctorate on the occupational socialisation of nurses. She was appointed to the Chair of Nursing Studies in 1996 after 20 years there as researcher, lecturer and senior lecturer. She served as Head of the Department of Nursing Studies [1992-1998] and as Head of a Planning Unit in the Faculty Group of Law and Social Science [1992-2001]. She was the first Head of the new School of Health in Social Science [2003-2007]. She is a member of the University Research Ethics Committee and Convener of the University Student Survey Ethics Committee. Outside of the University, she contributes to Scottish Government Health Department NHS policy development through consultations and working conferences.

Asst Prof Anita Ho, University of British Columbia
Visiting period: 8 August to 5 September 2009
Email: anita.ho@ubc.ca
Web-link: http://ethics.ubc.ca/index.php

Anita Ho is Assistant Professor in the W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics at the University of British Columbia. She also serves as an ethicist and associate chair on the university's Behavioural Research Ethics Board, and the Director of Ethics Services for Providence Health Care in Vancouver. Her main research areas include ethics, bioethics, social/political philosophy, and disability studies. She is particularly interested in human rights issues, cross-cultural ethics, globalization, health-care access and disparity, physician-patient relationship, and decision-making models. Her recent and upcoming works can be found in the Annals of Internal Medicine, The Journal of Medical Ethics, American Journal of Bioethics, Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, Journal of Clinical Ethics, Advances in Nursing Science, International Nursing Review, Journal of Nursing Scholarship, and Teaching Philosophy. She is currently working on a book-length manuscript on trust and autonomy in clinical and research medicine, supported by a faculty research grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She is also a consultant for the American Refugee Committee on human rights and gender-based violence in Rwanda and South Sudan.

Dr Jacinta Tan, University of Oxford
Visiting period: 1 December 2009 to 28 February 2010

Jacinta Tan has a multidisciplinary background of medicine, philosophy and psychology, and sociology. She is a fully qualified Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist who is also a medical ethicist and ethics researcher. She specialises in empirical ethics research using sociological methods and her research interests are the development of autonomy, consent in legal minors, the ethics of eating disorders in elite athletes, capacity and wider aspects of treatment decision-making in vulnerable patients, the ethics of research in children and young people, the ethics of compulsory treatment and psychiatric ethics. After many years at the Ethox Centre in the University of Oxford, she is now an Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of Philosophy, Law and Humanities in Healthcare at the School of Health Sciences in Swansea University.

Professor Bert Gordijn
Visiting period: 20 June to 1 August 2010
Email: bert.gordijn@dcu.ie
Web-link: https://www.dcu.ie/info/staff_member.php?id_no=3576

Bert Gordijn is Chair of Ethics and Director of the Institute of Ethics at Dublin City University. He is Editor-in-Chief of the academic book series “The International Library of Ethics, Law and Technology” (Springer). In addition Bert is Editor-in-Chief of two peer reviewed journals: Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy (Springer) and Studies in Ethics, Law and Technology (Berkeley Electronic Press). Bert has been appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of the European Patent Organization, the External Science Advisory Panel to the Long-Range Research Initiative of the European Chemical Industry Council and has served on the UNESCO expert committee on ethics and nanotechnology. Bert’s work in the Centre for Biomedical Ethics focused on the ethics of brain-computer interfaces.