Wendy Rogers (academic)


Wendy Anne Rogers is an Australian bioethicist. She is currently professor of clinical ethics at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. She was named one of Nature's 10 people who mattered in 2019 for revealing ethical failures in China's studies on organ transplantation.
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Education

Rogers was educated at Flinders University where she was awarded a PhD in 1998 on morality in general practice.

Career and research

Rogers works on practical bioethics and overdiagnosis. She has interests in medical ethics, artificial intelligence in healthcare and ethics in surgery.

Awards

Rogers was named one of Nature's 10 people who mattered in 2019 for revealing ethical failures in China's studies on organ transplantation. Nature cited her report in BMJ Open, which analyzed 445 Chinese studies which described >85,000 individual transplants, and found that 99% did not adequately prove consent for the transplantation procedure. In 2019, she received the ethics award from the National Health and Medical Research Council and was named the national research leader in the field of bioethics by The Australian. She was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2021.