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5.04/23/2026

Encourages students to think creatively.

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About Alastair

Professor Alastair V. Campbell held a Personal Chair in Biomedical Ethics and served as Director of the Bioethics Research Centre at the University of Otago from 1990 to 1996. He previously visited as a professor at Otago Medical School in 1986/87. The Bioethics Centre, established in 1988 within the Division of Health Sciences, developed under his leadership into a major resource for teaching, research, consultancy, and public education in bioethics. Campbell earned his MA in philosophy with first-class honours and BD from the University of Edinburgh, and ThD from the San Francisco Theological Seminary and the Graduate Theological Union via a Harkness Fellowship. His early career featured roles as Associate Chaplain at the University of Edinburgh (1964–1969), part-time lecturer in ethics at the Royal College of Nursing, Scotland (1966–1972), and joint secretary of the Edinburgh Medical Group, precursor to the Society for the Study of Medical Ethics.