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Professor Peter McCullagh
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Peter is honorary associate at the University of Sydney's Department of Veterinary Science and an Adjunct Lecturer in Biology and Bioethics at the Institute. He holds a medical degree from the University of Melbourne, a doctorate from Oxford which he undertook as a Rhodes scholar and two further degrees in medicine from the University of Condon and Melbourne. From was for 34 years as a senior scientist with the John Curtin School of Medical Research in the Australian National University, Canberra, rising to Senior Fellow before taking up his current post at the University of Sydney He was one of two people assigned to take formal complaints under the University's policy for dealing with allegations of misconduct in research and was for 11 years a member of both the University's Animal Experimentation Ethics Committee and its Human Research Ethics Committee. He has been a member of the Australian Health Ethics Committee of the National Health and Medical Research Council and is one of four authors of its National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Research Involving Humans.
Peter is the author of numerous publications in the areas of Physiology and Bioethics including: "The Fetus as Transplant Donor: Scientific, Social and Ethical Perspectives" (1987), "Brain Dead, Brain Absent, Brain Donors. Human Subjects or Human Objects?" (1993) and "An Alternative Approach to the Persistent Vegetative State" (2001). Dr McCullagh is also involved in numerous community organisations including rural occupational health programs, the National Brain Injury Foundation and the National Health and Medical Research Council. In 2002 he took part in teaching JP544/644 Beginning-of-Life Ethics and JP545/645 End-of-Life Ethics in the Institute.
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