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Don Chalmers
Biographical Sketch
Professor Donald Chalmers is Dean of the Law School, University of Tasmania. He is a Foundation Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law and Director of the Centre for Law and Genetics.
He is Chair of the Gene Technology Ethics and Community Consultative Committee, Deputy Chair of the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Embryo Research Licensing Committee and a member of the NHMRC Human Genetics Advisory Committee. He is a member of the international Human Genome Organisation Ethics Committee.
He was Chair of the NHMRC Australian Health Ethics Committee (AHEC) from 1994 to 2000; Chair of the Commonwealth Ministerial Review of the National Ethics Committee system, 1994-95; Chair of the Review of the Scientific Ethical and Regulatory considerations relevant to the Cloning of Human Beings, 1998-1999; member of the Commonwealth Biotechnology Advisory Council, 1999-2002; and, consultant to the Australian Law Reform Commission Report on the genetic privacy, 2001-2003. He was chair of the Australian Institute of Health, Law and Ethics from 2002-2005.
His current research work involves an examination of the legal and governance arrangements for human tissue biobanks.
Keynote presentation: Are research ethics committees working in the best interests of participants in an increasingly globalised research environment?
This conference is arranged by Cesagen at the universities of Lancaster and Cardiff and the Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics at Uppsala University.