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The Moderator:

Fr Frank Brennan SJ AO is professor of law in the Institute of Legal Studies at ACU. He was the founding director of Uniya, the Australian Jesuit Social Justice Centre. His latest book Acting on Conscience asks how we can responsibly mix law, religion and politics.

The Medical Scientists:

Sir Gustav Nossal FAA, FRS, FTSE was Director of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research 1965-96 and Professor of Medical Biology at the University of Melbourne. He is distinguished for his contributions to the fields of antibody formation and immunological tolerance.
Jack Martin AO FAA FRS is Emeritus Professor of Medicine, University of Melbourne, having been Professor of Medicine 1977 - 1999, and Director, St Vincent's Institute of Medical Research 1988 - 2002. His research is in bone and cancer cell biology.

The Ethicists:

Max Charlesworth AO is an emeritus professor. He has been a member of the Victorian Standing Review and Advisory Committee on Infertility, the National Health and Medical Research Council, the National Bioethics Consultative Committee and its successor the Australian Health Ethics Committee. He has done research on bioethics in France, the U.K. and Canada. His publications include Life, Death, Genes and Ethics (ABC Boyer Lectures 1989)and Bioethics in a Liberal Society (Cambridge University Press, 1993). He is a member of the Monash Centre for Human Bioethics and co-founder of the Australian Bioethics Association.
Bernadette Tobin PhD is Director of the Plunkett Centre for Ethics at St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, and Reader in Philosophy at Australian Catholic University. She is Conjoint Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Sydney, Conjoint Associate Professor in the School of Medicine at the University of New South Wales, and Honorary Ethicist at the Children's Hospital at Westmead. She chaired the NHMRC's committee which revised its 2004 'Ethical guidelines on the use of assisted reproductive technology in clinical practice and research'.

Conclusion:

Professor Sheehan AO has been Vice-Chancellor of ACU since February 1998. He obtained an Honours Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Sydney in 1961 and was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology in 1965. In 1973 he was appointed Professor of Psychology at the University of Queensland and took up his current appointment from the position of Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Postgraduate Studies) at that University. He was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University, California, in 1978.