Prof Lynn Gillam is an experienced clinical ethicist, originally trained in philosophy (MA, 1988, Oxon) and bioethics (PhD, Monash, 2000). She is a Professor in the Centre for Health Equity, in the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, at the University of Melbourne.

Her academic field is Health Ethics. Lynn is also the Academic Director of the Children’s Bioethics Centre at the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne. The Children's Bioethics Centre provides the clinical ethics service for hospital.

At RCH, Lynn has been involved in over 200 ethics consultation since 2005. She also provides policy advice and leads research into a range of issues in paediatric clinical ethics - including end of life decision-making, management of differences of sex development, information-giving to children, fertility preservation for prepubertal children undergoing gonadotoxic treatment, use of high-cost investigational drugs and parental refusal of treatment. In 2018, Lynn was awarded the RCH Chairman’s Medal, in recognition of this work.

At the University of Melbourne, Lynn teaches medical ethics in the MD curriculum; ethics and qualitative research design in the MPH, and supervises PhD, Masters and Honours students. In 2019, Lynn was made a Member of the Order of Australia for service to medical education in the field of bioethics.

Lynn has a long-standing research interest in human research ethics, and is the Chair of the University’s Central Human Research Ethics Committee. Lynn is a member of a number of state and federal advisory bodies, including the Victorian Independent Medical Advisory Committee on Medicinal Cannabis and the NHMRC Clinical Ethics Working Group.

Dr. Danya Vears is a Principal Research Fellow and Team Leader at the Biomedical Ethics Research Group, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. Dr. Vears is a social scientist with a genetic counselling background who uses both empirical and theoretical methodologies to explore the practical, social, and ethical issues relating to the use of genomics in both clinical and research settings.