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Lectures from more recent years, together with invited speakers, are listed below. Recorded lectures can be accessed via the topic link.
| Year | Lecturer | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Professor John Haldane | “Ableism: a malady of modern medical decision making” |
| 2022 | Dr Xavier Symons |
"Welcome the stranger! Rediscovering the art of hospitality in a 21st century hospital" The transcript of Dr Symons' lecture can be found in the March 2022 edition of Bioethics Outlook. |
| 2020 | Dr William F Sullivan | “Ableism: a malady of modern medical decision making” |
| 2019 | Professor Julian Hughes |
"To thine own self be true!" Reflections on authenticity, citizenship and dementia. |
| 2018 | Professor Daniel Sulmasy MD PhD MACP, Professor of Biomedical Ethics, Georgetown University, Washington DC |
Should we take away Hippocrates' licence? Professionalism, conscience and tolerance in a good society |
| 2017 | Most Reverend Anthony Fisher OP, Archbishop of Sydney | Drive-thru healthcare: is there more to the healing relationship than supply and demand? |
| 2016 | Mr Mark Tedeschi AM QC,NSW Senior Crown Prosecutor and author of Murder at Myall Creek | John Hubert Plunkett: The Martin Luther King of colonial Australia and prosecutor of the Myall Creek massacre trials |
| 2015 | Associate Professor Justin Oakley, Monash University | What should surgical patients be told? The value and limits of medical transparency. |
| 2014 | Professor Wendy Rogers, Macquarie University | Over diagnosis: when too much medicine is bad for your health! |
| 2013 | Dr Steve Matthews, ACU | Musical memories and the way we were: musical therapy in progressive cognitive impairment. |
| 2012 | Dr Andrew McGee, Queensland University of Technology | My brain, my mind, my body: implications for stem cell research, end of life and organ donation. |
| 2011 | Dr Paul Biegler, Monash University | The ethical treatment of depression: shortcomings in contemporary practice. |
| 2010 | Dr John Forge, University of Sydney | The responsible scientist: ethical challenges of research and practice. |
| 2009 | Prof Greg Craven, ACU and Mr Edward Santow, University of Sydney | Human rights laws: a benefit to patients, participants in research, residents in nursing homes? |
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