{"id":1098,"date":"2015-09-09T12:30:22","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T02:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/?p=1098"},"modified":"2017-04-19T08:41:44","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T22:41:44","slug":"ethical-issues-in-caring-for-asylum-seeker-children-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/2015\/09\/09\/ethical-issues-in-caring-for-asylum-seeker-children-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethical issues in caring for asylum seeker children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/138831238\" width=\"612\" height=\"690\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Grand Rounds 09\/09\/15\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>SYNOPSIS<\/strong><br \/>\nDavid went to Nauru in December to see children referred to him. He will present a case related to this visit and will discuss what are our ethical responsibilities to asylum seekers and the role of advocacy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SPEAKER<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Professor David Isaacs<\/strong> is a paediatric infectious disease specialist and general paediatrician from Sydney. He has been editor-in-chief of the Journal of Paediatrics &amp; Child Health since 2009. In 2002, he and A\/Prof Henry Kilham obtained post-graduate diplomas in bioethics from Monash University. Since then they have supervised medical students in bioethics research projects, taught post-graduate bioethics at the University of Sydney and published over 90 peer-reviewed articles on bioethics. Since 2004, David has been Head of the Health Assessment for Refugee Kids (HARK) clinic at the Children\u2019s Hospital at Westmead.<\/p>\n<p>His youngest son Mark worked for the Salvation Army on Nauru in 2012 and wrote a book \u201cThe Undesirables\u201d describing the traumatic conditions for asylum seeker men. In December 2014 David went to Nauru as a visiting paediatrician and was so affected by the conditions that he has been advocating passionately for asylum seeker children ever since.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David went to Nauru in December to see children referred to him. He will present a case related to this visit and will discuss what are our ethical responsibilities to asylum seekers and the role of advocacy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7930,5658],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1098"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1359,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions\/1359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}