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Department of Philosophy

Wendy Rogers

BM.BS, BA Hons, PhD, Dip RACOG, MRCGP, FRACGP

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Wendy came to Macquarie in 2009 as a CORE joint appointment between the Philosophy Department and the Australian School of Advanced Medicine. She initially trained as a general practitioner before undertaking philosophy honours and a PhD in medical ethics at Flinders University, after which she spent two years at the University of Edinburgh on an NHMRC post-doctoral fellowship. Prior to coming to Macquarie she spent five years leading the ethics, law and professionalism teaching in the School of Medicine at Flinders.

Awards and Prizes

  • Faculty of Arts Higher Degree Research Award for Building Inclusive Research Culture (2010)
  • Carrick Institute award for excellence in university teaching (2007)
  • Flinders University Vice Chancellor’s award for excellence in teaching (2007)
  • South Australian Young Tall Poppy Science Award (2004)

 

Selected Publications

Books

Practical Ethics for General Practice 2nd edition, co-authored with Annette Braunack-Mayer (Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2009).

Selected Journal Articles

Rogers W, Mackenzie C, Dodds S. Why bioethics needs a concept of vulnerability. International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (in press for October 2012).

Degeling C, Rock M, Rogers W. Testing relationships: ethical arguments for screening with HbA1C. Journal of Medical Ethics (accepted 16 August 2011)

Johnson J and Rogers W. Innovative surgery: the ethical challenges. Journal of Medical Ethics (accepted 24 May 2011, published on-line first 22 June 2011)

Ballantyne A and Rogers W. Sex bias in studies selected for clinical guidelines. Journal of Women’s Health (in press, accepted 25/4/2011)

Catsanos R, Rogers W and Lotz M. The ethics of uterus transplantation. Bioethics (early view published online 4 July 2011; doi:10.1111/j.1467-8519.2011.01897.x)

Degeling C, Townley C and Rogers W. Understanding Corporate Responsibility: Culture and Complicity (Open Peer Commentary). American Journal of Bioethics 11 (9): 18-20.

Rogers WA, de Lacey S, Avery JC. Donation after cardiac death: community views about ‘decent’ intervals. American Journal of Transplantation 20011; 11 (3): 583-590.

Johnson J, Rogers W, Lotz M, Townley C, Meyerson D and Tomossy G. The ethical challenges of innovative surgery – a response to the IDEAL recommendations. Lancet 2010, 376 (9746): 1113-1115.

De Lacey S, Rogers W and Richards B. Directed embryo donation: free choice or discrimination? Journal of Law and Medicine 2010, 8: 169-177.

Braunack-Mayer AJ, Street JM, Rogers WA, Giveny R, Moss JR, Hiller JE and the FluViews team. Including the public in pandemic planning: a deliberative approach. BMC Public Health 2010, 10:501.

Street J, Rogers W, Braunack-Mayer A and Israel M. Credit where credit is due? Regulation, research integrity and the attribution of authorship in the health sciences. Social Science and Medicine 2010, 70 (9): 1458-1465.

Rogers W and  Ballantyne A. Towards a practical definition of medical professional behaviour. Journal of Medical Ethics 2010, 36: 250-254.

Rogers WA, Street J, Braunack-Mayer A, Hiller J and the FluViews team. Pandemic influenza communications: views from a deliberative forum. Health Expectations 2009, 12 (3): 331 – 342.

W.A. Rogers and A.J.Ballantyne, 2009, ‘Justice in health research: what is the role of evidence-based medicine?’, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine (in press).

N. Naffine, B. Richards and W.A. Rogers, ‘Scaring us all to death: the need for responsible legal scholarship on post mortem organ donation’, Journal of Law and Medicine 16: pp 696-707.

O. Anikeeva, A. Braunack-Mayer, W.A. Rogers, 2009, ‘Should we require influenza vaccination for health care workers?’, American Journal of Public Health, 99: 24-29.

W.A. Rogers and A.J. Ballantyne, 2008, ‘Special Populations: Vulnerability and Protection’, RECIIS (Electronic Journal of Communication, Information and Innovation in Health), Supplement Volume 2 Research Ethics: DOI: 10.3395/reciis.v2.Sup1.207pt. 

C. Lee, W.A. Rogers, A. Braunack-Mayer, 2008, ‘Social Justice and Pandemic Influenza Planning: The Role of Communication Strategies’, Public Health Ethics, 1: pp 223-234.

W.A. Rogers and A. Ballantyne, 2008, ‘When is sex-specific research appropriate?’ International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, 1 (2): pp 36–57.

L.D. Gruppen, W.A.Rogers, O.T.J ten Cate, D. Brewster, K. Calman, R. Cruess, ASupe, 2008, ‘Reporting Conflicts of Interest: Clarifying the Grey Areas’, Medical Education, 42: pp 650–651.

A.J. Ballantyne and W.A. Rogers, 2008, ‘Fair inclusion of men and women in Australian clinical research: views from ethics committee Chairs’, Medical Journal of Australia, 188 (11): pp 653-656.

W.A. Rogers and A. Ballantyne, 2008, ‘Gender and trust in medicine: vulnerabilities, abuses and remedies’, International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, 1 (1): pp 48-66.

W.A Rogers and B Richards, 2008, ‘Matters arising: Organ donation after cardiac death: legal and ethical justifications for antemortem interventions’, Medical Journal of Australia, 188 (3): pp 188.

W.A. Rogers and A.J. Ballantyne, 2008, ‘Exclusion of women from clinical research: myth or reality?’ Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 83 (5): pp 536-542.

W.A. Rogers, A.J. Ballantyne and H. Draper, 2007, ‘Is sex-selective abortion morally justified and should it be prohibited?’ Bioethics, 21 (9): pp 520-525.

A. Ballantyne and W.A. Rogers, 2007, ‘Vulnerability and Protection in Human Research’, Harvard Health Policy Review, 8 (1): pp 29-42.
B. Richards and W.A. Rogers, 2007, ‘Organ donation after cardiac death: legal and ethical justifications for antemortem interventions’, Medical Journal of Australia, 187 (3): pp 168-170.

C. Lee and W.A. Rogers, 2006, ‘Ethics, pandemic planning and communications’, Monash Bioethics Review, 25 (4): pp 9-18.
N. Palmer, A. Braunack-Mayer, W.A. Rogers, C. Provis, G. Cullity, 2006, ‘Conflicts of Interest in Divisions of General Practice’, Journal of Medical Ethics, 32: pp 715-717.

W.A Rogers, 2006, ‘Feminism and Public Health Ethics’, Journal of Medical Ethics, 32: pp 351-354.

W.A. Rogers, 2006, ‘Pressures on Confidentiality (invited commentary)’, Lancet, 367 (18 Feb): pp 553-4.

N. Jackson, E. Waters for the Guidelines for Systematic Reviews in Health Promotion and Public Health Taskforce, 2005, ‘Criteria for the systematic review of health promotion and public health interventions’, Health Promotion International, 20 (4): pp 367-374.

Draper H and Rogers WA. Re-evaluating confidentiality: teaching and publications that use real patient information. Advances in Psychiatric Treatment 2005; 11: 115-124.

N. Jackson, E. Waters and the Guidelines for Systematic Review Taskforce, 2004, ‘The challenges of systematically reviewing public health interventions’, Journal of Public Health, 26: pp 303-307.

G. Huby, J. Stewart, A.Tierney, W.A.Rogers, 2004, ‘Planning older people’s discharge from acute hospital care: linking risk management and patient participation in decision-making’, Health, Risk and Society, 6(2): pp 115-132.

W.A. Rogers, 2004, ‘Ethical issues in public health: a qualitative study of public health practice in Scotland’, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 58: pp 446-450.

W.A. Rogers, P. Mansfield, A. Braunack-Mayer, J. Jureidini, 2004, ‘The ethics of pharmaceutical industry relationships with medical students, Medical Journal of Australia, 180: pp 411-414.

W.A. Rogers, 2004, ‘Evidence-based medicine and justice: a framework for looking at the impact of EBM on vulnerable or disadvantaged groups’, Journal of Medical Ethics, 30: pp 141-145 (Editor’s choice for this issue).

W.A. Rogers, 2004, ‘Evidence-based medicine and women: Do the principles and practice of EBM further women’s health?’ Bioethics, 18 (1): pp 62-83.

W.A. Rogers, Is there a moral duty for doctors to trust patients? Journal of Medical Ethics 2002, 28: 77-80.

W.A. Rogers, Evidence-based medicine in practice: Limiting or facilitating patient choice? Health Expectations 2002, 5: 95-103.

W.A. Rogers (member), A working group on behalf of Association of Teachers of Ethics and Law in Australian and New Zealand Medical Schools (ATEAM). An ethics core curriculum for Australasian medical schools. Medical Journal of Australia 2001, 175: 205-210.

 

Selected Book Chapters

Rogers WA, (in press) ‘Evidence-based Medicine. Chapter 112 in R. Chadwick (ed), The Elsevier Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics, 2nde (accepted 6 Jan 2010).

Rogers WA. In the lion’s den: teaching and assessing medical ethics, in I. Hay, I. (ed.) Inspiring Academics: Learning with the World’s Great University Teachers, McGraw Hill Open University Press, London 2011; pp 104-112.

B. Bennett, I. Karpin, A. Ballantyne, W.A. Rogers, 2008, ‘Gender Inequities in Health Research: An Australian Perspective’, in M. Freeman (ed), Law and Bioethics: Current legal issues volume 11, Oxford University Press, Oxford: pp 409-431.

W.A. Rogers, 2008, ‘Constructing a healthy population: tensions between individual responsibility and state-based beneficence’ in B. Bennett, T. Carney and I. Karpin (eds), The Brave New World of Health, Federation Press, Sydney: pp 55-72.

W.A. Rogers, 2007, ‘Health inequities and the social determinants of health’, in R. Ashcroft, A. Dawson, H. Draper, J. McMillan (eds), Principles of Health Care Ethics 2nd edition, Wiley,  London: pp 585-592

W. A. Rogers, 2005, ‘Evidence-based medicine and equity: the exclusion of disadvantaged groups’, in R.ter Muelen, N. Biller-Adorno, C. Lenk, and R. Lie (eds), Evidence Based Practice in Medicine and Health Care: a discussion of the ethical issues, Springer-Verlag,Berlin Heidelberg: pp 129-138.

 

Current Research

Wendy is currently leading a program of research into the ethics of surgical research and practice, and is also working on the concept of vulnerability in bioethics. She has long standing interests in the ethics of organ donation, feminist bioethics, public health ethics, conflicts of interest in health care, research ethics and the ethics of evidence-based medicine.

Current Research Grants

  • 2011-14 Mackenzie C, Rogers W and Dodds S. Vulnerability, autonomy and justice. ARC DP110102272 $250,000
  • 2011-14 Rogers W, Johnson J, Townley C, Sheridan S, Ballantyne A, Lotz M,  Meyerson D, Tomossy F, Eyers T,  Maddern G, Thomson C. On the cutting edge: promoting best practice in surgical innovation. ARC LP110200217 $255,000
  • 2011-12 Townley C & Rogers W. A Novel Approach to Research Ethics: using social epistemology to investigate responsibilities for knowledge generation and use. MQRDG $47,291
  • 2011 Rogers W. Macquarie University Safety Net Scheme.  How do we know what works? Evidence and ethics in surgical research. $25,000

Current HDR Supervision (Primary)

  • Aydin Pourmoslemi: Designing an ethical framework for surgical innovation in Australia
  • Ruby Catsanos: Are uterus transplant ethically justified?
  • Tereza Hendlova: Ethical aspects of gender selection for non-medical reasons
  • Lanei Alexander: The role of obesity stigma in Bariatric Surgeons' Assessment of morbidly obese candidates for surgery
  • Susanna Gormon: Developing research ethics for law and journalism

Administrative Responsibilities

Deputy Director, MQ Research Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics
Director of HDR Studies, Philosophy

Contact Details

Location: Building W6A Room 740
Phone: (61 2) 9850 8858
Fax: (61 2) 9850 8892
Email: wendy.rogers@mq.edu.au
Office hours: to be advised

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(last updated: 14/10/11 )

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