Professor Donald Chalmers LL.B. (Hons) University College, London, 1972 LL.M. University of Papua New Guinea 1978

Law, Bioethics

‘No Primrose Path: Surrogacy and the Role of the Criminal Law’ (1989) 7 Medicine and Law 1-12.

‘Rogers and Whitaker: Informed Consent in Australia’ (1993) 1 Medical Law Review 139-159 with R. Schwartz.

“Malpractice Liability for the Failure to Adequately Educate Patients: The Australian Law of ‘Informed Consent’ and its Implications for American Ethics Committees” (1993) 2 Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 371 with R. Schwartz.

‘Legal and Ethical Implications of Human Genetic Research: Australian Perspectives’ (1995) 3 Law and Human Genome Review 211-222 with M.F.A. Otlowski, D. Nicol and L. Skene.

'Towards a Consensual Culture in the Ethical Review of Research' (1998) Med J of Aust Vol 168, No. 2 with Philip Pettit, on behalf of the Australian Health Ethics Committee

‘Medical Law in Australia’ in International Encyclopaedia of Laws (2nd ed) Kluwer Press Amsterdam 1998, pp.1-141.

‘The Challenge of Human Genetics" in Controversies in Health Law (eds. Freckleton I. and Petersen K) Federation Press 1999 pp 202-239.

“Consent, Commercialisation and benefit-sharing” (2001) 9 Journal of Law and Med. 80-94 with M.F.A. Otlowski, D. Nicol

“Professional Self-Regulation and Guidelines in Assisted Reproduction” (2002) 9 Journal of Law and Medicine 414-428

“Regulating Biomedical Advances: Embryonic Stem Cell Research” (2002) 2 Macquarie Law Journal 31-59 with D Nicol and B Gogarty

“Embryonic stem cell research: can the la balance ethical, scientific and economic values?” (Part 1)(2003) 18 Law and the Human Genome Review 43-53

Current

Chair, Gene Technology Ethics Committee, Gene Technology Act 2002 (Cth) 2002 -

Member of the NHMRC Embryo Research Licensing Authority 2003 -

Member of the Board of the Australian Institute of Family Studies 1998 -

Member of the Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants Ethics Centre of Excellence 1992 -

Member, CSIRO Health Sector Advisory Council 2002 -

Chair of Australian Institute for Health, Law and Ethics 2002 -

Member of the National Pro Bono Advisory Council

Director, Centre of Law and Genetics, University of Tasmania/Melbourne

Chair of Australian Red Cross Human Research Ethics Committee 1999 -

Member of the Advisory Board HumGen Genetic and Science Society project, Centre de Recherche en droit public (CRDP) University of Montreal.

Past

Chair of Australian Health Ethics Committee of the National Health and Medical Research Council 1993 - 2000.

Member of Council of the National Health and Medical Research Council 1993 – 2000.

Member of Executive Council of the National Health and Medical Research Council 1993 - 2000

Member of NHMRC Working Groups – National Data Collection on Assisted Reproductive Technology 1996-1998; Working Group on the Use of RhD Immunoglobulin (Anti-D) in Obstetrics 1997-2000.

Member of the Commonwealth Biotechnology Consultative Group 1999 – 2002

Member of National Bio-Ethics Consultative Committee, 1988-91

Member of Ethics Committee, Antarctic Division of Department of Science and Technology, 1984-97.

Co-ordinator, Amnesty International, Tasmania Lawyers Branch, 1982-90.

Member State Red Cross Committee for International Humanitarian Law, 1980-86.

Member of Ethics Committee of the State Red Cross Blood Bank 1991-95

Member of Ethics Committee, Antarctic Division of Department of Science and Technology, 1984-97.

Commissioner, Law Reform Commission of Tasmania 1991-97

Commissioner, Law Reform Commission of Tasmania 1982-87

Chair, State of Tasmania Committee of Enquiry into Artificial Conception and Related Matters, 1984-85

Member of Huntington’s Disease Advisory Committee (of Health Services Commission) 1987-99.

Professional Memberships

Member, Law Society of Tasmania

Member of the Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants

Member, International Bioethics Association

Member, Human Genome Organisation (HUGO)

Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law

Member, Medico-Legal Society of Tasmania

Editorial Boards

Journal of Law and Medicine 1998

Medical Law Review; Member of Editorial Board 1992

Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy 1991