Graduate Student, Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics
DPhil student, Nuffield Medical Research Fellow
Green Templeton College
Thesis Title: The ethical implications of magnetic resonance imaging for newborn infants with hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy
About
Dominic Wilkinson is a neonatologist and Nuffield medical research fellow. He is working towards a doctorate in bioethics, looking at the ethical implications of the use of magnetic resonance imaging in newborn infants with birth asphyxia. He has a medical degree, and has completed specialist training in neonatal intensive care in Melbourne. He has also trained in adult and paediatric intensive care units.
He has a particular interest in the ethical issues in end-of-life care in newborn infants, and has completed a Masters degree in Human Bioethics at Monash University (Melbourne). His research is also supported by the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (Astra-Zeneca fellowship in medical research, and Eric Burnard fellowship), and a Royal Children's Hospital Travelling Scholarship.
Recent publications include:
Bioethics:
Consequentialism and the Death Penalty
Conscientious Objection and Physician's refusal to refer
Neuroimaging in the Persistent vegetative state
Neonatal Intensive Care:
Ethical issues in Therapeutic Hypothermia
Algorithms for desaturation in ventilated preterm infants
High Flow nasal cannula in newborn infants
Contact Information
The Ethox Centre
Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care,
University of Oxford
Badenoch Building
Old Road Campus
Headington
OX3 7LF
+44 (0) 1865 287 887
