Wendy Rogers (academic)

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Wendy Rogers
Born
Wendy Anne Rogers

1957 (age 6768)
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.mq.edu.au/en/persons/wendy-rogers

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]

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Education

Rogers was educated at Flinders University where she was awarded a PhD in 1998 on morality in general practice. [2]

Career and research

Rogers works on practical bioethics and overdiagnosis. [7] She has interests in medical ethics, artificial intelligence in healthcare and ethics in surgery. [4]

Awards

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]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Cyranoski, David; Gaind, Nisha; Gibney, Elizabeth; Masood, Ehsan; Maxmen, Amy; Reardon, Sara; Schiermeier, Quirin; Tollefson, Jeff; Witze, Alexandra (2019). "Nature's 10: Ten people who mattered in science in 2019". Nature. 576 (7787): 361–372. doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-03749-0 . ISSN   0028-0836. PMID   31848484.
  2. 1 2 Rogers, Wendy Anne (1998). The moral landscape of general practice. trove.nla.gov.au (PhD thesis). Flinders University. OCLC   222662448.
  3. Wendy Rogers publications from Europe PubMed Central
  4. 1 2 3 Rogers, Wendy (2019). "Wendy Rogers: Professor in Clinical Ethics (CoRE), Department of Philosophy, Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics (CAVE)". mq.edu.au. Macquarie University. Archived from the original on 24 August 2019.
  5. 1 2 Rogers, Wendy; Robertson, Matthew P; Ballantyne, Angela; Blakely, Brette; Catsanos, Ruby; Clay-Williams, Robyn; Fiatarone Singh, Maria (2019). "Compliance with ethical standards in the reporting of donor sources and ethics review in peer-reviewed publications involving organ transplantation in China: a scoping review". BMJ Open. 9 (2) e024473. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2018-024473. ISSN   2044-6055. PMC   6377532 . PMID   30723071.
  6. Robertson, Matthew P.; Hinde, Raymond L.; Lavee, Jacob (2019). "Analysis of official deceased organ donation data casts doubt on the credibility of China's organ transplant reform". BMC Medical Ethics. 20 (1): 79. doi: 10.1186/s12910-019-0406-6 . ISSN   1472-6939. PMC   6854896 . PMID   31722695.
  7. Rogers, Wendy A.; Entwistle, Vikki A.; Carter, Stacy M. (2019). "Risk, Overdiagnosis and Ethical Justifications". Health Care Analysis. 27 (4): 231–248. doi: 10.1007/s10728-019-00369-7 . hdl: 2164/14812 . ISSN   1065-3058. PMID   31055702.
  8. "Fellow Profile: Wendy Rogers". Australian Academy of the Humanities. Retrieved 4 August 2024.