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Marilys Guillemin is the Deputy Director and Associate Professor at the Centre for Health and Society at the University of Melbourne. Her professional academic experience is in sociology of health and illness, particularly in the areas of understandings of illness, health and technology studies, and women's health. Marilys is an established health researcher whose past major research projects include the management of menopause within specialised clinic settings, examining the needs and practices of both women and medical practitioners; research on mid-age women and heart disease, particularly focusing on women's understanding of risk and prevention of heart disease; and research on deafness and genetic testing.
Lynn Gillam is a Senior Lecturer in Health Ethics at the Centre for Health and Society at the University of Melbourne, and the Clinical Ethicist at the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne. Lynn's background is in philosophy, theology and bioethics. She teaches ethics in the medical curriculum and the postgraduate social health program. Her research interests include pre-natal diagnosis, genetic testing, and clinical ethics. She also has a strong interest in the intersections between ethics and sociology, and the development of inter-disciplinary qualitative methods suitable for research in ethics. Lynn has 15 years experience on human research ethics committees. She is currently a member of the Human Research Ethics Committee of the University of Melbourne, and the clinical ethics committee of the Royal Children's Hospital. Lynn has published widely in bioethics, on a range of issues, including clinical ethics, research ethics and ethics committees, the use of human foetal tissue, reproductive technologies and genetic testing.
Marilys and Lynn teach health ethics together at the University of Melbourne. They have been honoured with a number of teaching awards for their joint teaching, including the prestigious University of Melbourne David White Teaching Award. Currently, Marilys and Lynn are part of a team undertaking research on the understandings and practices of ethics committee members and health researchers in relation to research ethics.
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