Contributors
- Contributors
Sophie Bridge is a fourth year medical student at the Wellington School of Medicine, University of Otago, New Zealand. Her prizewinning essay was based on her 2011 B MedSc (Hons) thesis while studying at Bioethics Centre, University of Otago. She would like to have the opportunity to research, learn and write more in the field of bioethics, as well as to continue to develop new skills, such as how to question, analyse and follow arguments that her year-long sojourn into bioethics taught her.
Daphne Chia is a student at Raffles Girls School, Singapore. She wrote this paper as a submission for the RGS Options module, the Ethics of Human Enhancement, in 2012. This module was a cooperative venture between the teaching staff of Raffles Girls School and staff from the Centre for Biomedical Ethics, National University of Singapore.
Yen Li Goh is Consultant, Psychiatrist, Department of General Psychiatry, Institute of Mental Health/Woodbridge Hospital as well as Programme Director, GP Partnership Programme, Institute of Mental Health. This community-based care supports enhanced integration between the tertiary and primary care providers by promoting referral of stabilised patients to primary care providers. Dr. Goh is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore.
Yuri Hibino is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Medical, Pharmaceutical and Health Sciences, Kanazawa University, Japan. Dr. Hibino researches in the areas of reproductive technologies and social issues. She specialises in Public Health and Health Science and Sociology.
Syahirah A. Karim is a Research Associate at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics, National University of Singapore. She manages the Clinical Ethics Network Training, Research and Support (CENTRES) project, an initiative funded by the Ministry of Health to link hospital clinical ethics committees and to develop capacity in clinical ethics consultation. She has a keen working interest in the socioeconomic and cultural factors affecting the health of individuals and populations, grounded in her subscribing to the principle that the right to health is a fundamental human right.
Huei Yen Lee graduated from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (MBBCh), and subsequently returned to Singapore to pursue her postgraduate training in Psychiatry. She was awarded the MMed (Psychiatry) by the National University of Singapore in 2001, and has been working with patients with eating disorders since then. She was awarded the SGH Fellowship (Eating Disorders) and worked with Professor James Lock at the Eating Disorder Unit, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Stanford University from 2005–2006. She is currently a Senior Consultant in the department of Psychiatry and is also the Director of the Eating Disorder Programme [End Page 79] at the Singapore General Hospital. She is also a clinical lecturer with the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School and part of the core clinical faculty of the National Healthcare Group Psychiatry residency programme.
Ee Lian Lee is Senior Consultant Psychiatrist of the Eating Disorders Programme, at the Department of Psychiatry, Singapore General Hospital. Dr. Lee is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, and Senior Lecturer at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. She has been working in the area of eating disorders since the 1980s.
Jose Sebastian Manguiat is presently Editorial Manager, Health Sciences, Elsevier (Singapore). He originally studied at the University of the Philippines College of Medicine, Philippine General Hospital, Manila, Philippines. His prizewinning essay was part of his dissertation for the Erasmus Mundus Master of Bioethics, which he obtained from the Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law at Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium.
Yosuke Shimazono is a DPhil candidate at St. Cross College in association with the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, both at Oxford University, UK. Formerly a research assistant at Kanazawa University, Japan, he has written and researched widely in the areas of organ transplantation, medical anthropology and reproductive technologies.
Jacinta O.A. Tan has a multidisciplinary background in medicine, child health, philosophy, psychology and sociology. She is a fully-qualified Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and a medical ethicist and empirical ethics researcher. She is a Senior Research...
