Dr Lynn Gillam

Title Lecturer (C) in Health Ethics, Centre for
Institution 

University of Melbourne

Research As a principal investigator
ARC Small Grant 2000: Guillemin and Gillam “Attitudes of Deaf/ Deaf people to genetic testing for deafness”

ARC Large Grant 2001-2003: Gillam and Savulescu “Does pre-natal diagnosis discriminate against people with disabilities?”,
TALMET Melbourne-Monash Collaborative Courseware Development Grant 2001: Gillam and Oakley “Interactive Medical Ethics”
As an associate investigator
National Institutes of Health (US): Wake (PI), Dahl, Cone-Wesson, Gillam, Rickards, Saunders and Williams (AIs) “Genetics of Mild Hearing Loss in Children aged 6-12 years" (1 RO1 DC005662-01) 2003-2005
Relevant Publications van Hooft, Stan; Gillam, Lynn; Byrnes, Margot Facts and Values: An Introduction to Critical Thinking for Nurses. Sydney and Philadelphia, PA: MacLennan and Petty; 1995

Gillam, Lynn, “Secret ethics business?, forthcoming in Monash Bioethics Review Vol. 22 No.1, 2003

Gillam, Lynn “Stem cell research: individual morality and public regulation”, forthcoming in New Zealand Journal of Bioethics, 2003

Cannold, Leslie and Gillam, Lynn, “Regulation, consultation and divergent community views: the case of access to ART by lesbian and single women”, Journal of Law and Medicine Vol.9 No.4, 2002, pp.498-510.

Gillam, Lynn and J. Miles Little, “Confidentiality”, Medical Journal of Australia 174, 2001, pp.298-301.

Gillam, Lynn, “What is bioethics all about? – A response to Tim Smyth, Monash Bioethics Review Vol.19 No.4, 2000, pp.51-54

Zion, Deborah; Gillam, Lynn; Loff, Bebe “The Declaration of Helsinki, CIOMS and ethics of research on vulnerable populations, Nature Medicine 6(6), 2000, pp.615-617

Gillam, Lynn “The new National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Research Involving Humans: A commentary”, Monash Bioethics Review 20(1), 2000, supp.pp.1-13

Gillam, Lynn, “Prenatal diagnosis and discrimination against the disabled”, Journal of Medical Ethics, 25(2), 1999, pp.163-171.

Gillam, Lynn, “Arguing by analogy in the fetal tissue debate” Bioethics 11(5), 1997, pp.397-412.

Gillam, Lynn, “The 'more-abortions' objection to fetal tissue transplantation”, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 23(4), 1998, pp.411-427.

Gillam, Lynn “Bioethics and public policy in Australia” [Commentary] Politics and the Life Sciences 13(1), 1994, pp.87-88.

Memberships Positions Australian Bioethics Association: member since foundation, committee member since 1995, member of the Organising Committee for the 1997 National Conference.

Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics, co-founder (with Dr. Noel Preston, QUT), member since 1993 and secretary, 1993 - 1995; member of the Organising Committee for the 1997 National Conference

Association of Teachers of Ethics and Law in Australasian Medical Schools, founder (June 1999), organiser of inaugural meeting, and National Co-ordinator 2002.

Australian and New Zealand Association for Medical Education, member since 1999.

Current Human Research Ethics Committee Memberships
Dept of Public Health, MDHS DHEAG (Chair), since 2000

Alzheimers Association of Victoria Research and Ethics Committee, since 1995

Department of Human Services Ethics Committee, since 1999

CareConnect Ethics Committee, since 2001

Infertility Treatment Authority Ethics Advisory Panel

Royal Women’s Hospital Clinical Ethics Advisory Group

Human Genetics Society of Australia Ethics and Social Issues Committee