Wendy Rogers | |
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Born | Wendy Anne Rogers 1957 (age 67–68) |
Alma mater | Flinders University (PhD) |
Awards | Nature's 10 (2019) [1] |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Ethics Bioethics Medical ethics Artificial intelligence in healthcare |
Institutions | Macquarie University |
Thesis | The moral landscape of general practice (1998) |
Website | researchers |
Wendy Anne Rogers FAHA (born 1957) [2] is an Australian bioethicist. She is currently professor of clinical ethics at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. [3] [4] She was named one of Nature's 10 people who mattered in 2019 for revealing ethical failures in China's studies on organ transplantation. [1] [5] [6]
Rogers was educated at Flinders University where she was awarded a PhD in 1998 on morality in general practice. [2]
Rogers works on practical bioethics and overdiagnosis. [7] She has interests in medical ethics, artificial intelligence in healthcare and ethics in surgery. [4]
Rogers was named one of Nature's 10 people who mattered in 2019 for revealing ethical failures in China's studies on organ transplantation. [1] Nature cited her report in BMJ Open , which analyzed 445 Chinese studies which described >85,000 individual transplants, and found that 99% did not adequately prove consent for the transplantation procedure. [5] In 2019, she received the ethics award from the National Health and Medical Research Council and was named the national research leader in the field of bioethics by The Australian . [4] She was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2021. [8]