Rate My Professor Janine Winters

Winters' research focuses on end-of-life medical issues for adults and children, high-stakes decision-making for children, and clinical ethics consultations, with particular emphasis on paediatrics and end-of-life care. She contributes extensively to teaching at the Otago Medical School, co-convening the course BITC 405 Bioethics in Clinical Practice, tutoring in clinical skills and early professional experience, and delivering lectures on palliative medicine, paediatric palliative care, adolescent decision-making, the ethics of genetics, and literature in medicine. A member of the Australia New Zealand Society of Palliative Medicine, Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law, American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, American Academy of Family Medicine, and Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society, she has authored key publications such as "Conduit or conductor? Physician providers' descriptions of their role as MAiD assessors in the first years after legalisation in Canada" (Journal of Medical Ethics, 2025, with S. Walker, N.J. Pickering, and C. Jaye), "Providing medically assisted dying in Canada: A qualitative study of emotional and moral impact" (Journal of Medical Ethics, 2025, with C. Jaye, N.J. Pickering, and S. Walker), and "By their side, not on their chest: Ethical arguments to allow residential aged care admission policies to forego full cardiac resuscitation" (Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 2025, with E. Hutchinson).