Essential Ethics

Associate Professor Tom Connell speaks about the challenges faced by large children's hospitals with the availability of high cost new drugs. Speaker: Associate Professor Tom Connell, RCH Chief of Medicine. Host: Professor John Massie, Children's Bioethics Centre, The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne.

Dr Daniel Wright explores innovation in the light of gender affirming care for children with gender dysphoria. Daniel shows us how philosophy can help de-pathologise issues such as gender dysphoria, yet still leave room for treatment, innovative or routine. Speaker: Daniel Wright, Clinical Psychologist and PhD candidate, Children's Bioethics Centre. Host: Professor John Massie, Children's Bioethics Centre, The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne.

One of Australia's leading clinical ethicists, Professor Ian Kerridge, brings together storytelling, clinical experience and philosophy to help us navigate a path through the complexity of innovation in health care. Speaker: Professor Ian Kerridge, haematologist and specialist in bone marrow transplantation, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney and Professor of Bioethics and Medicine, University of Sydney. Host: Professor John Massie, Children's Bioethics Centre, The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne.

The 2023 conference was unified by the theme of innovation. Between 2023 and 2030, there will be at least ten new and expensive therapies approved every year. But in Australia and many other nations, these won't necessarily be funded. Furthermore, there will be off-licence requests to use these innovations and other emerging therapies, along with new devices and surgical developments. How should clinicians, hospitals and health services approach this issue? How should bioethics be positioned to support these requests and the introduction of new and emerging treatments? This is a recording of the opening plenary of the 2023 conference. Speaker: Assistant Professor Bryanna Moore, Department of Bioethics and Health Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch and chair, American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, Paediatric Ethics Affinity Group. Host: Professor John Massie, Children's Bioethics Centre, The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne.

Parent-clinician conflict is a common reason that clinical ethicists become involved in children’s care. The genesis of the conflict is often quite early in the course of the child’s illness and the situation builds to a crisis when there is a difficult decision to be made. Clinicians and ethicists have a traditional way of considering the problem confronting the child. In this podcast Bry Moore and Ros McDougall offer a different lens through which to see the problem and, ideally, find a fresh way to consider the conflict and manage a path to resolution. Guests: Associate Professor Bryanna Moore, Dept of Bioethics & Health Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch, USA, and Associate Professor Rosalind McDougall, Health Ethics at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne. Host: Professor John Massie, Children's Bioethics Centre, The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne.