Prof. Kulsoom Ghias

Professor & Chair
Department of Biological & Biomedical Sciences, Medical College
Aga Khan University
Pakistan

Prof. Kulsoom Ghias is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences at Aga Khan University. With a PhD in Cancer Biology, she leverages her expertise to teach Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Cancer Biology, and Bioethics across various levels of medical education, including undergraduate, postgraduate, and graduate programs, through small group discussions, large classroom settings, and laboratory-based sessions. Nationally, she has contributed as an advisor to the Alif Ailaan Math and Science Campaign and served as a board member for the Pakistan Alliance for Math and Science. She was recently invited to join the Board of Studies at the Centre of Biomedical Ethics and Culture (CBEC), SIUT. On the international stage, Prof. Ghias chaired the global ASPIRE Academy under AMEE—an international association for health professions education—for two years, participated in the AMEE 2023 Programme Committee, and now serves as Vice Chair of the ASPIRE-to-Excellence Board. Through these roles, she continues to make an impact beyond her institution while advancing the educational mission of AKU.

Prof. Michael Dunn

Associate Professor and the Co-Director of Education, Centre for Biomedical Ethics (CBmE) in the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore.

Michael is an Associate Professor and the Co-Director of Education at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics (CBmE) in the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine.

Michael works across bioethics, health law, socio-legal studies, and health/social care services research.

He is an experienced university teacher, particularly in professional education settings. As Director of Undergraduate Education, he leads CBmE’s undergraduate programs in health ethics, law, and professionalism, which are delivered over five years and are responsible for educating 2,500 medical, dental, pharmacy, and nursing students within NUS at any one time.

Within CBmE, he contributes to postgraduate education, teaching courses in the theory and methodology of bioethics, the ethics of AI and health data, and the ethical dimensions of ageing. He also leads continuing education ‘refresher’ training in ethical skills for local health professionals. Additionally, he has supervised 10 PhD students and has been acknowledged for the quality of his graduate supervision in university teaching awards.

Dr. Sin Nga Ann Lau

Dr. Ann Sin Nga Lau is currently the Assistant Dean (Health Sciences Education) of the Faculty of Medicine and the Co-Director of the CUHK Centre for Bioethics. She is also the Associate Director (Undergraduate Education) and Principal Lecturer in the School of Biomedical Sciences, and the Director of BSc in Biomedical Sciences Programme at CUHK. Being a Biomedical Scientist by training, Ann has expanded her interest to medical and biomedical sciences education, which further advanced into education leadership and management.

In addition to bioethics education, Ann has a broad teaching interest ranging from human genetics, endocrinology, to reproductive biology. She is the Leader of CUHK eLearning Community of Practice (eLearning CoP) on virtual reality (VR) as an emerging education technology, the Principal and Co-investigators of education or teaching and learning development projects worth over US$5 million covering virtual reality and metaverses in education, courseware development, peer-assisted learning, interprofessional education, teaching and learning for social good, examination tools, as well as assessment for learning.  She is leading a faculty’s flagship project on “Artificial Intelligence in/as Medical Education”, and working with educators across disciplines to evaluate the impact of AI in education from the perspectives of education and bioethics.  She is the recipient of the Faculty of Medicine Education Award 2019, and the Faculty of Medicine Education (Team) Award 2025.

Prof. Stuart Lane

Deputy Associate Dean (Education), Faculty of Medicine and Health
Professor of Medical Education and Intensive Care Medicine, Sydney Medical School
Senior Staff Specialist in Intensive Care Medicine, Nepean Hospital

Professor Lane is Deputy Associate Dean (Education), Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney. His teaching achievements have been recognised with multiple awards at school, Faculty, University, and national levels. His main areas of teaching expertise are critical reflection of practitioners, ethics and professionalism, educational assessment and development, interprofessional education, and clinical Intensive Care Medicine.

He has held multiple previous academic education roles at Sydney Medical School including, Director of MD program, Head of Intensive Care Medicine, and Director of Academic Education. Within Intensive Care Medicine, he is a previous Chair of the part 2 clinical examination for the College of Intensive Care Medicine (CICM) and member of the national CICM assessment committee.

On a personal level he is a keen ocean swimmer, and in 2017 he swam the English Channel in 2017, raising $12500 to assist research into chronic critical illness (CCI).