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Speakers
Rachel Iredale is a Senior Fellow at the Welsh Institute for Health and Social Care at the University of Glamorgan in Wales. She took a first degree in sociology and social policy at University College Dublin and completed her masters degree at St Patrick's College Maynooth. Rachel has just finished a PhD on the social policy implications of the new genetics in Ireland. Her current research interests in Wales centre on improving public participation in health policy making. She has recently helped organised Wales' first Citizens' Jury on genetic testing for common disorders.
Ian Taylor
Ian Taylor is Conservative Member of Parliament for the Esher and Walton constituency. Since becoming an MP in 1987, he has had a number of Parliamentary responsibilities. Most notably, he was Minister for Science and Technology at the Department for Trade and Industry between June 1994 and May 1997.
Tom Wilkie is Head of the Biomedical Ethics Section at The Wellcome Trust in London. After working for the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, he returned to Britain to work as physical sciences editor, then overall features editor for New Scientist. From 1986 to 1996, Dr Wilkie was science editor of the Independent newspaper. A former chairman of the Association of British Science Writers, he is the author of two books, British Science and Politics Since 1945 and Perilous Knowledge, the Human Genome Project and its Implications.
John Parsons is senior lecturer and honorary consultant in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology at King's College Hospital in London. He is the consultant in charge of the Assisted Conception Unit and the Abortion Service at King's. John has 10 years' experience of IVF surrogacy at King's, during which time he has treated almost 40 patients. In 1996, he advised the British Medical Association during the preparation of its guidance on surrogacy.
John Polkinghorne is chairman of the Advisory Committee on Genetic Testing and member of the HGAC. A Fellow of the Royal Society (1974), he has had a distinguished career in Mathematical Physics. Revd Dr Polkinghorne was ordained as deacon in 1981 and as a priest in 1982. He was a Fellow, Dean and Chaplain of Trinity Hall, and then president of Queen's College, University of Cambridge. Revd Dr Polkinghorne was chairman of a joint HGAC/HFEA Cloning Working Group which published its consultation paper on human cloning in January.
Sheila McLean is International Bar Association Professor of Law and Ethics in Medicine, and Director of the Institute of Law and Ethics in Medicine, at Glasgow University. Her major research interests are in the areas of genetics, death and dying, assisted reproduction and consent to treatment. Sheila acted as a researcher to Ken Collins MEP and was a visiting researcher at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand in 1983. She has two postgraduate degrees and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal Society of Arts.
John Harris is the Sir David Alliance Professor of Bioethics in the School of Education, and Research Director of the Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, at the University of Manchester. He is a member of the Advisory Committee on Genetic Testing and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Medical Ethics. John has published over 80 papers and seven books, including Wonderwoman and Superman: the ethics of human biotechnology and Value of Life.
Sarah Cunningham-Burley is senior lecturer in Medical Sociology in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. She has a particular interest in the social context of the new genetics in relation to health. She has recently completed a study, with colleagues Anne Kerr and Amanda Amos, entitled 'The Social and Cultural Impact of the New Genetics'. This has investigated the views and perspectives of geneticists, journalists and a range of lay publics. Sarah also conducts research on a range of other areas in family and medical sociology and she is involved in teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.
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