Staff

Professor D Gareth Jones
Director and Head of Section
Tel: +64 3 471 6123
Email: gareth.jones@otago.ac.nz
Research Interests: Human anatomy and ethics, including uses of human cadavers and tissues; Neuroethics, including neuroimaging and dementia; Stem cell technology, including induced pluripotent stem cells; Artificial reproductive technologies, including developmental issues; Enhancement and therapy; Bioethics and theology.

Professor Donald Evans
Professor
Tel: +64 3 474 7007, extn 8511
Email: donald.evans@otago.ac.nz
Research Interests: Ethical and philosophical dimensions of clinical practice; ethics and resource allocation; ethical issues in assisted reproduction; ethical review of human participant research; ethics of biotechnologies.

Professor Grant Gillett
Professor
Tel: +64 3 471 6127
Email: grant.gillett@otago.ac.nz
Research Interests: Bioethics, neuroethics, philosophy of psychiatry, and post-structuralist philosophy.

Dr Lynley Anderson
Senior Lecturer
Tel: +64 3 471 6132
Email: lynley.anderson@otago.ac.nz
Research Interests: Ethics in sports medicine, reproductive ethics, clinical bioethics, professional development, codes of ethics.

Sandy Elkin
Professional Practice Fellow
Tel: +64 3 471 6128
Email: sandy.elkin@otago.ac.nz
Research Interests: Ethics in clinical practice for non-medical health professionals; The interface between law and ethics and the relevance of medical law to clinicians; Ethics in pharmacy practice.

Associate Professor Jing-Bao Nie
Associate Professor
Tel: +64 3 471 6129
Email: jing-bao.nie@otago.ac.nz
Research Interests: Cross-cultural and international bioethics, medical ethics in China/Asia.

Dr Mike King
Lecturer
Tel: +64 3 471 6130
Email: mike.king@otago.ac.nz
Research Interests: The moral status of animals, scientific responsibility, ethics of assisted reproductive technologies.

Dr Neil Pickering
Senior Lecturer
Tel: +64 3 471 6126
Email: neil.pickering@otago.ac.nz
Research Interests: Primary interests in bioethics are in the philosophy and ethics of mental health, in medical humanities (particularly the use of literature in ethics teaching), in alternative medicine, in cultural issues in bioethics, and in environmental ethics.

Dr Simon Walker
Lecturer
Tel: +64 3 471 6124
Email: simon.walker@otago.ac.nz
Research Interests: Moral philosophy, the nature of value, meaning, suffering, end of life care.

Maja Whitaker
Assistant Research Fellow
Email: maja.whitaker@otago.ac.nz
Research Interests: Collaborates with Professor Jones across a broad range of bioethical areas, with particular emphasis on the uses of human tissues and cadavers.

Vicki Lang
Administrator
Tel: +64 3 471 6120
Bioethics Fax: +64 3471 6121

Email: vicki.lang@otago.ac.nz