CBC staff 

Professor Lynn Gillam is the Academic Director and Clinical Ethicist at the CBC. She is an experienced clinical ethicist, originally trained in philosophy (MA, 1988, Oxon) and bioethics (PhD, Monash, 2000). Lynn is also Professor in Health Ethics at the University of Melbourne, in the Department of Paediatrics. At the CBC, Lynn leads clinical ethics case consultations, ethics rounds and education sessions for RCH clinical departments. 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, and parental refusal of treatment. 

Professor John Massie is the Clinical Director of the CBC and senior consultant in the Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, RCH. He is also a Professorial Fellow, Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne. In his clinical role, John looks after children with neuro-disability requiring ventilator support and also works in the RCH cystic fibrosis clinic. At the CBC, John provides clinical leadership, liaison with clinical staff, ethics advice to RCH executive and supports the CBC building capacity in bioethics across the campus. John has a particular interest in decision-making with children. He has published a number of papers and book chapters relating to ethical issues in paediatric respiratory medicine and the medical humanities. John is the host of the CBC podcast show, Essential Ethics.

Dr Georgina Hall PhD is a Clinical Ethicist at the CBC. She is trained in Bioethics (MBioeth, Monash, PhD Bioeth University of Melbourne) and communications (BAJourn, RMIT). Georgina has been involved with the Centre since its inception in 2008. She oversees the development and delivery of a wide range of traditional and innovative education and training programs within the Centre. These are directed at advancing the ethical literacy of all hospital staff. She is convenor of the monthly Bioethics Forum and a member of the Clinical Ethics Response Group. Her research interests include reproductive ethics and IVF access decision-making, the child's voice in paediatrics, and media coverage of healthacare issues. 

Dr Jenny O'Neill PhD (absent) is the Clinical Nurse Consultant at the CBC, appointed in February 2022. Jenny is a paediatric nurse with over 20 years’ experience in clinical, research and education roles at RCH. Her clinical background has largely been in adolescent health and with the Neurodevelopment and Disability department. Her research interests include health equity, difficult decision making in paediatrics, holding children for procedures and adolescent autonomy and consent. Jenny was the recipient of the Dame Elisabeth Murdoch Nursing Development Scholarship in 2021 which allowed her to undertake a Masters in Bioethics and work with the Children's Bioethics Centre to encourage nursing engagement with bioethics. 

Ms Sharon Feldman is a Clinical Ethicist at the CBC. Sharon is a Clinical Ethicist at the Children’s Bioethics Centre, as well as at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and Austin Health. Previously, Sharon worked as a healthcare lawyer, before completing a master’s degree in bioethics at Columbia University and a two-year clinical ethics fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic. She is also pursuing a PhD on the practice of clinical ethics.