Paul Komesaroff

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

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Paul Komesaroff is a physician, researcher and philosopher at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, where he is Professor of Medicine and Executive Director of Global Reconciliation, an international collaboration that promotes communication and dialogue across cultural, racial, religious, political and other kinds of difference. He is a practising clinician, specialising in the field of endocrinology. He is also Director of the Centre for Ethics in Medicine and Society, another international collaboration which undertakes educational and research work in relation to all aspects of ethics in relation to medicine, health care and the sciences. He occupies or has occupied many roles in the fields of ethics and society, including: Director of the Clinical Ethics Service at the Alfred Hospital, Chair of the Ethics Advisory Group of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (1995-2013), Chair of the International Health Workforce Society of Australasia, and Deputy Chair of the Asia-Pacific Ethics Consortium. He is the Chair of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry and Ethics Editor of the Internal Medicine Journal. He is the author of more than 425 articles in science, ethics and philosophy, and author or editor of fourteen books.