Clare Delany (Australia)

Session

Focused symposium:  Forging Links to Moral Action: Reaching Beyond Boundaries (Speaker)

Biography

Clare Delany (PhD, Master Hlth and Med Law, Master Physio, BApp Sci (Physio) is a senior lecturer in ethics, law and qualitative research methods at the Department of Physiotherapy, The University of Melbourne, and a Clinical Ethics Fellow in the Children’s Bioethics Centre, the Royal Children’s Hospital. Clare’s research and teaching interests include examining the nature and scope of clinical ethical decision-making for physiotherapists and other allied health practitioners. Clare has developed a particular interest in narrative ethics as an approach to ethics education in clinical settings.
Academic credentials: PhD (health professional Ethics), University of Melbourne; Master Physiotherapy, (Manipulation)University of Melbourne; Master of Health and Medical Law, University of Melbourne; BSci (Physiotherapy), Latrobe University; Intensive Bioethic course (Nov 2008) Monash University.

Positions/appointments:

Senior lecturer, Department of Physiotherapy, University of Melbourne: Clinical Ethics Fellow (Allied Health) Centre of Children’s Bioethics, Royal Children’s Hospital; Ethics Education Consultant to Monash Medical School (Malaysia); Past Vice President of Physiotherapists Registration Board of Victoria and member of Australian Physiotherapy Council

Publications/Presentations:

Dr Delany has publications in both clinical education and clinical ethics. She has most recently co-edited a book, Clinical Education in the Health Professions and recent ethics related publications include Delany, C. and D. Watkin (2009). "A study of critical reflection in health professional education: 'Learning where others are coming from.'." Advances in Health Sciences Education 14(3): 411-429;  Delany, C., L. Gillam, et al. (2009). Ethics in Clinical Education. Clinical education in the Health Professions. C. Delany and L. Molloy, Elsevier.

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