Dr Leanna Darvall

Dr Leanna Darvall is the Co-ordinator of the Medical Law Tutorial Program and author of the medical law class materials. A graduate of the Law Faculty, Melbourne University, she subsequently completed a Doctorial Thesis at Monash University concerning a comparative analysis of the regulation of the promotional practices of the Pharmaceutical Industry in Australia and the United States. She has written and researched extensively in the area of medical law. Her publications include:

Medicine, Law and Social Change: the impact of bioethics, feminism and rights movements on medical decision-making. Dartmouth, Aldershot, 1993.

Her recent research includes: Medico-Legal knowledge of General Practitioners: Disjunctions, Errors and Uncertainties, co-authored with Ms Marilyn McMahon and Professor Leon Piterman: 7 Journal of Law and Medicine 2001, p167.

Past and present Membership of Professional Boards, Tribunals and Committees includes:

• The Victorian Medical Practitioners Board (1996 – 97)
• The Victorian Guardianship Board (1993 – 95)
• The International Medical Graduates subcommittee of the Post Graduate Medical Council (2004 continuing)
• The Southern Health Bioethics Medical Committee (2002 continuing)
• Reference Group, NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Patient Safety, Monash University 2006 ( 3years fixed term)

Current research interests and activities include:

• Developing Medical Law educational packages for international medical graduates
• Health and Human Rights issues with reference to indigenous populations.