Saturday 20th September 2014

TIME

 

LECTURE/EVENT

18.00 onwards

 

Welcome Reception

Sunday 21st September 2014

TIME

 

LECTURE/EVENT

Session 9:00 - 9:30

 

Introductions - Welcome
Formal Opening Ceremony
Eugenia Mitrakas, OAM and other officials from Greece
Welcome – Justice Konstantinos Vardavakis, Greek Patron, Chair of the Greek Organizing Committee

Session 9.30 - 10:00

 

Professor Rod Hicks – How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there is no help in the truth

Session 10:00 - 10:30

 

Professor Denise Meyerson – A rights-based perspective on surgical intervention

 

 

MORNING COFFEE

Session 11.00 to 11.30

 

Founding Patron’s Keynote Address, Professor Peter Doherty AC – Pandemics, influenza and all that

Session 11.30 to 12.00

 

Dr John Vassiliadis – Medical Error and how to prevent it

Session 12.00 to 12.30

 

Professor Ian Freckelton SC – Scholarly Misconduct and the Law

Session 12.30 to 1.00

 

Dr Rod McRae – The Explosion of Technology in the Clinical Environment Warrants a Rethink of Ethics Committees

1.00 to 2.30

 

CULTURAL LUNCH - Highlight Cultural Speaker, James McCaughey – Gods, Myths and Mortals in the Odyssey and the Iliad

Session 2.30 to 3.00

 

Dr Leonie Kelleher OAM – Does the legal profession need to reconsider its relationship to the environment – human and non-human

Session 3.00 to 3.30

 

Dimitris Markatos – New ethics for sustainable protection of the marine environment. Pioneering recent legislative regulations in Greece

Session 3.30 to 4.00

 

Carole Curtis – Climate change in the Pacific

Session 4.00 to 4.30

 

Mary Nagle – Re-designing your life

 

 

The Cultural Evening

Monday 22nd September 2014

TIME

 

LECTURE/EVENT

Session 9.00 to 9.30

 

Dr Kostas Pantos – Greek Perspective on Assisted Reproductive Treatment

Session 9.30 to 10.00

 

Assoc. Professor George P. Patrinos – Addressing ethical discrepancies while implementing Genomic Medicine

Session 10.00 to 10.30

 

Professor Stavroula Tsinorema – New bio-technological advances and the challenges for bioethics

 

 

MORNING COFFEE

Session 11.00 to 11.30

 

Keynote Legal Address, The Honourable Justice Chris Maxwell – How do courts respond when new technologies give rise to novel issues?

Session 11.30 to 12.00

 

Keynote Legal Address – The Honourable Justice Malcolm Craig

Session 12.00 to 12.30

 

Professor Murray Esler – Ways of “Knowing” in Medicine

Session 12.30 to 1.00

 

Dr John Ferguson – Eugenics, the Evolution of a Flawed Philosophy

 

 

LUNCH

Session 2.30 to 3.00

 

Professor George Kannourakis – The loss of altruism in modern medical research

Session 3.00 to 3.30

 

Dr John Malios – Audio recording of medical consultations. Friend or Foe?

Session 3.30 to 4.00

 

Professor Denise Meyerson – A rights-based perspective on surgical intervention

Session 4:00 to 4:30

 

Herc Koustas – The Impact of Australia's Research and Development Program and available Taxation Incentives

Tuesday 23rd September 2014

 

 

Free Day

Wednesday 24th September 2014

TIME

 

LECTURE/EVENT

Session 8.30 to 9.00

 

Dr Jim Vadolas – Latest developments in research on treatment for thalassaemia

Session 9.00 to 9.30

 

Dr Takis Vidalis – The emergence of Biolaw

Session 9.30 to 10.00

 

Athanasios Panagiotou – EU citizens and their access to new health technologies

 

 

MORNING COFFEE

Session 11.00 to 11.30

 

Australian Patron’s Keynote Address, Professor David De Kretser AC – Research and Science: You never know where it will take you

Session 11.30 to 12.00

 

Professor Loane Skene – Should women be paid for donating eggs for research?

Session 12.00 to 12.30

 

Professor Anita Stuhmcke – Research on stored embryos

Session 12.30 to 1.00

 

Dr Brad Power – Medical Interventions

 

 

LUNCH

Afternoon Highlight

 

Cultural Speaker, Professor Petros Themelis – Archeological Developments in Messini, followed by a tour of the archaeological site of Messini led by Professor Themelis

Thursday 25th September 2014

TIME

 

LECTURE/EVENT

Session 9.00 to 9.30

 

Dr Leslie Sedal – Ethical Issues in the care of Multiple Sclerosis patients

Session 9.30 to 10.00

 

Professor Suzanne Garland and Dr John Wark – Attracting women to be research participants

Session 10.00 to 10.30

 

Dr Magdalena Simonis – Addressing young women’s desire for genital beauty - Observations of trends leading to considerations for the GP

 

 

MORNING COFFEE

Session 11.00 to 11.30

 

Keynote Legal Address The Honourable Justice Stephen John Gageler

Session 11.30 to 12.00

 

Jack Gregor – Ethics in Mediation

Session 12.00 to 12.30

 

Dr Amber Dar – Decision-making about child participation in medical research

Session 12.30 to 1.00

 

Professor Mary Chiarella – Technology and Ethics in End of Life Care

 

 

LUNCH

Session 2.30 to 3.00

 

Ian Davidson SC – Testamentary Capacity: Applying the 19th century test in the 21st century

Session 3.00 to 3.30

 

Kate Hughes – Personally Controlled Electronic Health Records in Australia?

Session 3.30 to 4.00

 

Dr Julie Zetler – Privacy and Ethics in the Modern Healthcare Era

Session 4.00 to 4.30

 

Dr Brad Power – Death; a Medical or Legal Problem?

Session 4.30 to 5.00

 

Panel discussion: – Eugenia Mitrakas OAM with Professor Peter Doherty AC, Professor Ian Freckelton. Chaired by Professor Loane Skene

 

 

Gala Dinner

Friday 26th September 2014

TIME

 

LECTURE/EVENT

17.30 onwards

 

Farewell Drinks