Wendy Rogers (academic)
Australian bioethicist (born 1957)
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Wendy Anne Rogers FAHA (born 1957)[1] is an Australian bioethicist. She is currently professor of clinical ethics at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.[2][3] She was named one of Nature's 10 people who mattered in 2019 for revealing ethical failures in China's studies on organ transplantation.[4][5][6]
1957 (age 68–69)
Wendy Rogers | |
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| Born | Wendy Anne Rogers 1957 (age 68–69) |
| Alma mater | Flinders University (PhD) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Ethics Bioethics Medical ethics Artificial intelligence in healthcare |
| Workplaces | Macquarie University |
| Thesis | The moral landscape of general practice (1998) |
| Website | researchers |
Education
Rogers was educated at Flinders University where she was awarded a PhD in 1998 on morality in general practice.[1]
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.[3]
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.[4] 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.[3] She was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2021.[8]