CESA Board

  • Linda Sheahan, President

    Linda is a Clinical Ethics Consultant and Lead of the South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) Clinical Ethics Service. She is also a Staff Specialist in Palliative Medicine at St George Hospital, and SESLHD Clinical Stream Director, End of Life and Palliative Care. Linda holds honorary positions with: Sydney Health Ethics, University of Sydney; UNSW School of Public Health and Community Medicine; and Joint Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto, Canada.

  • Anne Preisz, Vice-President

    Anne's interest is in paediatric ethics, and she is the Clinical Ethicist at the Sydney Children's Hospitals Network and the Clinical Ethics Support Service Lead. She is a Senior Lecturer at University of Sydney with Sydney Health Ethics and a Conjoint Clinical Associate Professor at the School of Medicine, University of Notre Dame Australia. She is also a nationally accredited Mediator.

  • George Skowronski, Treasurer

    George is the Clinical Ethics Lead at St George Hospital, Sydney. He is also a retired Intensive Care Physician and a Research Affiliate at Sydney Health Ethics at the University of Sydney.

  • Edwina Light, Secretary

    Edwina is Clinical Ethics Coordinator and Researcher at the South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) Clinical Ethics Service. She has a PhD in Bioethics from the University of Sydney, and is an adjunct senior lecturer with Sydney Health Ethics and a casual researcher at Macquarie University.

  • Ian Kerridge, Committee member

    Ian is Professor of Bioethics and Medicine at the University of Sydney, Honorary Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Macquarie University, a member of the Health Ethics Advisory Panel (HEAP) of NSW Health, and Chair of the South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) Clinical Ethics Committee. He is also Staff Specialist in Haematology and Bone Marrow Transplant at Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney. He was previously Director of Sydney Health Ethics at the University of Sydney and of the Clinical Unit in Ethics and Health Law (CUEHL) at the University of Newcastle.

  • Mel Drinkwater, Committee member

    Mel is the Clinical Ethics Fellow at the Sydney Children's Hospital Network, and a General Practitioner based in Sydney. She has a Masters in Bioethics from the University of Sydney, and is a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners.

  • Cameron Stewart, Committee member

    Cameron is Professor of Health, Law and Ethics at Sydney Law School, University of Sydney. He has expertise in health law and bioethics, with particular interests in end-of-life, tissue regulation and clinical innovation. He is the Legal Member of the Medical Council of New South Wales and it an adjunct professor at the HeLEX Centre, University of Oxford. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law and Honorary Fellow of the Australian College of Legal Medicine.