Rate My Professor Jon Cornwall

Cornwall's research interests include bioethical issues surrounding posthumous human assets such as body donation and organ donation, muscle biology particularly spinal morphology and paravertebral muscles, and ethics in anatomical education. He has authored key publications such as "Who donates their body to science? An international, multicenter, prospective study" (Anatomical Sciences Education, 2012), "The wider importance of cadavers: Educational and research diversity from a body bequest program" (Anatomical Sciences Education, 2009), "Manually defining regions of interest when quantifying paravertebral muscles fatty infiltration from axial magnetic resonance imaging: a proposed method for the lumbar spine" (BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 2017), "Ethical issues surrounding the use of images from donated cadavers in the anatomical sciences" (Clinical Anatomy, 2016), and "More Than Body Parts: A New Ethos of Anatomy Education" (Academic Medicine, 2024). As Chair of the Federative International Committee for Ethics and Medical Humanities (FICEM) within the International Federation of Associations of Anatomists (IFAA)—the first New Zealander to hold this position—he has significantly influenced global standards. He led the creation of guidelines for using images from donated bodies and co-authored recommendations for legacy anatomical collections management, endorsed by the American Association for Anatomy. Additionally, he contributes to the Bioethics Unicorns initiative to foster ethics and professionalism in anatomy education.