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Biographies Dr Hilary Burton, Director, PHG Foundation Hilary Burton was the PHG Foundation’s Programme Director before becoming its Director (CEO) in 2010. She is a highly experienced public health physician who believes passionately that genomic science can, and should be used by public health professionals alongside the social and environmental determinants of health to bring about improvements in population health. Her special interests include the integration of genomics within mainstream medicine, genetics education for health professionals, and genomics and the developing world. Hilary trained at St Hugh’s College and The Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford and became a consultant in public health medicine in 1993. She was a member of the Department of Health’s Human Genomics Strategy Group and currently serves on the Joint Committee of Medical Genetics of the Royal Colleges and the Council for the British Society of Human Genetics. She is a Fellow of Hughes Hall, Cambridge, and holds an Honorary Lectureship at the University of Cambridge. Professor Donald Chalmers, Distinguished Professor, University of Tasmania; Deputy-Director, Centre for Law and Genetics Donald Chalmers is Distinguished Professor at the University of Tasmania and in the Centre for Law and Genetics. He is a Foundation Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. In 2010, he received the NHMRC Ethics Award, the Distinguished Service Medal, University of Tasmania and the Australian Red Cross Distinguished Service Award. His major research interests focus on medical research ethics and the regulatory aspects of human genetics. He has been chief investigator on Australian Research Council discovery grants, with colleagues on the legal, ethical and governance implications of genetics, particularly commercialisation, biobanking and personalised medicine and on an NHMRC program grant on cancer genetics, He has published in health law and genetics, research ethics and law reform criminal law, legal studies trusts, authored a number of government and Law Reform Commissioner reports and made regular submissions to government enquiries. Throughout his career, he has been involved in teaching, administration and served on many State, national and international committees. PRECISION MEDICINE: LEGAL AND ETHICAL CHALLENGES 11
Mr Tracey Evans Chan, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore Tracey Evans Chan is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law, NUS, and specializes in biomedical law and ethics. He has published in the field both locally and internationally, and served in a number of Singapore expert committees on matters such as surrogacy, transplant ethics, human-animal combinations in biomedical research and mitochondrial germline modification. Professionally, he was called to the Singapore Bar in 1998 and then spent two years clerking for the Supreme Court of Singapore before joining academia. He recently concluded a year-long secondment to the Singapore Ministry of Health as a Deputy Director in the Regulatory Policy and Legislation Division, where he assisted in the policy work for the recently enacted Human Biomedical Research Act 2015. Dr Yoon-Jung Chang, Associate Professor of Department of Cancer Control and Policy, Graduate School of Cancer Science and Policy, National Cancer Center; Associate scientist, Hospice & Palliative Care Branch, National Cancer Center; Expert secretory, Team of legislation, ethics & policy, Precision Medicine Working Group, Ministry of Health & Welfare, South Korea Yoon-Jung Chang, M.D., Ph.D, is actively participated in policy development in hospice & palliative care (HPC) in South Korea. She was a representative interviewee of South Korea for ‘the 2015 Quality of Death Index: Ranking palliative care across the world’ a report by the Economist Intelligence Unit. Her major research interests focus on HPC policy, and risk communication and biomedical ethics in cancer care & Cancer research. Recently she joined the Precision Medicine Working Group, Ministry of Health & Welfare as an expert secretory. PRECISION MEDICINE: LEGAL AND ETHICAL CHALLENGES 12
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