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Director

Dr Gregory K Pike, BSc., Ph.D.
Dr Greg Pike is the Director of the Southern Cross Bioethics Institute in Adelaide. He obtained his doctorate in Physiology from the University of Adelaide in 1984, before continuing with postdoctoral studies in the USA supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health and the Muscular Dystrophy Association. On returning to Australia he continued with various research programmes in neurobiology and membrane biophysics at the University of Adelaide. He took up a position in 1993 at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in the Department of Surgery in the rapidly developing field of laparoscopic surgery, working on various clinical trials and projects on new laparoscopic procedures and techniques.
In 1998 he joined the Bioethics Institute and now focuses on bioethics with a particular emphasis on the influence of bioethics on public policy development. He has participated extensively in public debates on stem cells, cloning, and heroin trials. He has a broader interest in ethical issues related to new technologies in the health sciences, particularly reproductive sciences and genetics.
He is Chairman of the Board of the Australian Drug Treatment and Rehabilitation Programme Inc., a board member of Drugwatch Australia, a member of The Institute on Global Drug Policy, and a Fellow of the Institute for the Study of Christianity in an Age of Science and Technology.
He is married with three children.

Research Officers

Selena Ewing, BHSc.
Selena has a Bachelor of Health Sciences from Adelaide University. She has a special interest in women's health, aged care and public health, and has previously worked in health promotion and quantitative research.
She is a Founding Member of Women's Forum Australia, an independent organisation that undertakes research, education and advocacy in a wide range of social, cultural, economic and health issues affecting women.
She is married to Harley. They have two children, and are expecting a third later in 2005.

Zac Alstin, BA (Hons)
Zac has a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in philosophy from Flinders University. He is interested in moral philosophy, primarily Natural Law Theory, and is currently focussing on end-of-life decision-making.

Matthew Tieu, BSc/BA (Hons)
Matthew has a Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Arts with Honours in philosophy from the University of Adelaide. He is particularly interested in the ethics of cloning and stem cell research in addition to his research interests in rational belief formation and cognitive science.

Adjunct Professor

Dr John I Fleming
Dr John Fleming is President of Campion College Australia. He specialises in the development of public policy in bioethics. His PhD (Griffith University, Queensland) is in philosophy and medical ethics.
Dr Fleming was a foundation member (1992-1996) of UNESCO's International Bioethics Committee which developed the Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights (adopted by the General Conference of UNESCO on 11 November 1997). Between 1998-2004 he was a member of the SA Council on Reproductive Technology (SA Parliament).
Dr Fleming was also a broadcaster in commercial radio for 34 years and a columnist for a major daily newspaper for 13 years.
Dr Fleming is currently a member of the Commonwealth Government's Gene Technology Ethics Committee (GTEC) set up under the Gene Technology Act 2000. He is also a Corresponding Member of the Pontifical Academy for Life.
Formerly an Anglican priest, Dr Fleming was ordained to the Catholic priesthood in 1995. He is married to Alison and they have three children.

Honorary Fellows

Dr Michael G Hains, LL.B. (Hons), Ph.D.
Dr Michael G Hains is the Head of Compliance and Compliance Counsel for leading
Investment Bank. He completed his PhD on derivatives in 1996 and has published widely on financial products in Australia and overseas. He is an Adjunct Lecturer in Law at the University of New South Wales and a Senior Fellow at the Melbourne University Law Faculty.

Dr Nicholas Tonti-Filippini, BA (Hons) MA (Monash) PhD (Melb.)
Dr. Nicholas Tonti-Filippini PhD (Melb) is a consultant ethicist and a sessional lecturer in the John Paul II Institute for the Study of Marriage and Family, and in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Melbourne. He is a chairman of the Research Committee for Matercare International and a founding member of the Board of Directors for Matercare Australia. Matercare was founded to establish obstetric facilities in developing countries. He is a member of the Ethics Advisory Panel for the Victorian Infertility Treatment Authority. He is also a member of the Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference Natural Family Planning Board of Management.
Dr. Tonti-Filippini was Australia’s first hospital ethicist in 1982, holding that position at St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne for eight years where he was also Director of Bioethics. From 1990-1992 he established and conducted the Research Office for the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference. He has been in private practice as an independent consultant ethicist for the past ten years and has an international reputation for his work in Bioethics. He was a consultant to UNESCO (Paris) in the development of the Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights.

Anna Krohn, B. Theol.

Contributors

Caton, Dr Hiram
Elder, David
Engelhardt, Tristram
Fisher, Fr Anthony
Fleming, Dr John I
Freckleton, Ian
Griffin, Gill
Keown, Dr John
Krohn, Anna
Krohn, Anthony
Little, Rev Keith
Manne, Robert
Neville, Dr Warwick
Newell, Dr Christopher
Pollnitz, Dr Rob
Ramsay, Hayden
Rowland, Dr Tracey
Santamaria, Dr Joe
Sullivan, Lucy
Tankard-Reist, Melinda
Teichmann, Jenny
Tonti-Filippini, Dr Nicholas