Wendy Rogers (academic)

Wendy Rogers
Born
Wendy Anne Rogers

1957 (age 66–67)
Alma materFlinders University (PhD)
AwardsNature's 10 (2019)[1]
Scientific career
FieldsEthics
Bioethics
Medical ethics
Artificial intelligence in healthcare
InstitutionsMacquarie University
ThesisThe moral landscape of general practice (1998)
Websiteresearchers.mq.edu.au/en/persons/wendy-rogers

Wendy Anne Rogers FAHA (born 1957)[2] is a professor of clinical ethics at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.[3][4] She was nominated as one of Nature's 10 people who mattered in 2019 for revealing ethical failures in China’s studies on organ transplantation.[1][5][6]

Education[edit]

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

Career and research[edit]

Rogers works on practical bioethics and overdiagnosis.[7] She has interests in Artificial Intelligence (AI), medical ethics, Artificial intelligence in healthcare and ethics in surgery.[4]

Awards and honours[edit]

Rogers was nominated as 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 analysed 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 (NHMRC) and was named as the national research leader in the field of bioethics by The Australian newspaper.[4] She was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2021.[8]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c 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. ^ a b 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. ^ a b c 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. ^ a b 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: Professor Wendy Rogers". Australian Academy of the Humanities. Retrieved 15 December 2021.