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Transplantation Medicine in Paediatric Context I: Conflict of Interests

Closed Workshop held on 07 June 2024, at Pembroke College, University of Oxford, funded by the John Fell Fund.

 

The closed workshop involved engagements with lawyers, clinicians, hospital chaplains, and religious scholars to explore the following issues:

  • How the law regulates children as donors or recipients of transplants?
  • How conflict of interests or rights (between parents and children, between parents, and between families and medical professionals) are resolved in practice?
  • What role do religious/cultural beliefs and religious communities play in shaping outcomes and finding solutions?
  • How is the complexity of religion communicated to clinicians in practice?

The workshop involved four sessions, which explored how conflicts are resolved and mediated in law and in practice. The discussion involved an inter-disciplinary lens and comparative approach, drawing upon case studies and examples from various contexts. 

Full List of Closed Participants:

Lawyers

  1. Prof. Jonathan Herring (Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford)
  2. Dr. Farrah Raza (Stipendiary Lecturer in Law, Pembroke College, University of Oxford; Ethics Committee, The Transplantation Society)
  3. The Rt. Hon. Sir Ernest Ryder (Master, Pembroke College, University of Oxford)
  4. Prof. Shaun Pattinson (Professor of Medical Law and Ethics, Durham University)

Clinicians

  1. Prof. James Neuberger (Consultant Physician, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust; Professor of Medicine, University of Birmingham)
  2. Prof. John Forsythe (Organ Utilisation Consultant for NHSBT, Transplant Honorary Professor and Consultant Transplant Surgeon, University of Edinburgh; Former President, British Transplantation Society)
  3. Dr. Jenny Prüfe (Universitätsmedizin Essen, Germany)
  4. Dr. Joe Brierley (Consultant in Paediatric Care, Great Ormond Street Hospital)
  5. Dr. Jan Dudley (University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust)
  6. Prof. Deirdre Kelly CBE (Professor of Paediatric Hepatology, University of Birmingham)

Religious ‘Representatives’, Chaplains and Scholars

  1. Revd. Dr. Andrew Teal (Chaplain, Fellow and Lecturer in Theology, Pembroke College, University of Oxford)
  2. Prof. Gurch Randhawa (Professor of Diversity in Public Health and Director, Institute for Health Research, University of Bedfordshire)
  3. Dr. Mansur Ali (Senior Lecturer in Islamic Studies, Cardiff University)
  4. Dr. Alejandro Sanchez (National Secular Society)
  5. Mr. Derek Ross (Executive Director and General Counsel, Christian Legal Fellowship, Canada)
  6. Rabbi Yehuda Pink (Jewish Chaplain, Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, Executive Board, Solihull Faith Forum)
  7. Prof. Justin Jones (Pembroke College, University of Oxford)
  8. Ms. Romana Kazmi (Muslim Chaplain at King's College London and Great Ormond Street Hospital)

Project Research Assistant

Ishani Mookherjee (D. Phil. in Law Candidate, University of Oxford)

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