Professor of Health Ethics and Professionalism
Deakin University, Geelong, Australia
Professor Dominique E. Martin, MBBS, BA(Hons. Phil.), PhD (Applied Ethics)
Dominique is Professor of Health Ethics and Professionalism in the School of Medicine at Deakin University in Australia, where she leads the Ethics, Law and Professionalism team. She is also an adjunct professor at the Australian Centre for Health Law Research (ACHLR) at QUT. Her research focuses on ethical issues in nephrology, organ and tissue donation, and transplantation, and on professionalism in healthcare. Her current projects are focused on international travel for organ transplantation; ethical issues in innovative research in donation and transplantation; and ethics education for kidney care professionals.
Dominique currently represents Oceania on the Council of the international Transplantation Society (TTS) and is co-chair of the Education Committee of TTS. An Associate Editor of Transplantation, she is also a member of the Doha International Academy for Organ Donation and has served as an ethics consultant to the World Health Organization and the Australian Organ and Tissue Authority. Dominique has previously served as co-chair of the Ethics Committee of TTS and of the Declaration of Istanbul Custodian Group.