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Professor David Kissane AC, Chair of Palliative Care Research at UNDA, presents his groundbreaking research on demoralisation's impact on the will to live. The 2024 Plunkett Lecture was held at St Vincent's Hospital Darlinghurst on 12 November.
Lectures from more recent years, together with invited speakers, are listed below. Recorded lectures can be accessed via the topic link.
| Year | Lecturer | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Professor John Haldane | “Ableism: a malady of modern medical decision making.” |
| 2022 | Dr Xavier Symons |
"Welcome the stranger! Rediscovering the art of hospitality in a 21st century hospital" The transcript of Dr Symons' lecture can be found in the March 2022 edition of Bioethics Outlook. |
| 2020 | Dr William F Sullivan | “Ableism: a malady of modern medical decision making” |
| 2019 | Professor Julian Hughes |
"To thine own self be true!" Reflections on authenticity, citizenship and dementia. |
| 2018 | Professor Daniel Sulmasy MD PhD MACP, Professor of Biomedical Ethics, Georgetown University, Washington DC |
Should we take away Hippocrates' licence? Professionalism, conscience and tolerance in a good society |
| 2017 | Most Reverend Anthony Fisher OP, Archbishop of Sydney | Drive-thru healthcare: is there more to the healing relationship than supply and demand? |
| 2016 | Mr Mark Tedeschi AM QC,NSW Senior Crown Prosecutor and author of Murder at Myall Creek | John Hubert Plunkett: The Martin Luther King of colonial Australia and prosecutor of the Myall Creek massacre trials |
| 2015 | Associate Professor Justin Oakley, Monash University | What should surgical patients be told? The value and limits of medical transparency. |
| 2014 | Professor Wendy Rogers, Macquarie University | Over diagnosis: when too much medicine is bad for your health! |
| 2013 | Dr Steve Matthews, ACU | Musical memories and the way we were: musical therapy in progressive cognitive impairment. |
| 2012 | Dr Andrew McGee, Queensland University of Technology | My brain, my mind, my body: implications for stem cell research, end of life and organ donation. |
| 2011 | Dr Paul Biegler, Monash University | The ethical treatment of depression: shortcomings in contemporary practice. |
| 2010 | Dr John Forge, University of Sydney | The responsible scientist: ethical challenges of research and practice. |
| 2009 | Prof Greg Craven, ACU and Mr Edward Santow, University of Sydney | Human rights laws: a benefit to patients, participants in research, residents in nursing homes? |
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