{"id":2536,"date":"2026-07-22T12:30:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T02:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/?p=2536"},"modified":"2026-08-27T12:20:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T02:20:37","slug":"technology-and-tragedy-an-exploration-of-cognition-the-law-and-ethics-associated-with-diabetes-and-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/2026\/07\/22\/technology-and-tragedy-an-exploration-of-cognition-the-law-and-ethics-associated-with-diabetes-and-driving\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology and tragedy &#8211; an exploration of cognition, the law, and ethics associated with diabetes and driving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1216316026?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wearable health care technologies are being used increasingly. The promise of these devices is that they can track and monitor physiology, and predict adverse health outcomes, and by patent behaviour, avoid them. Unfortunately, as evidenced by the tragic event in Daylesford involving a driver with diabetes in 2023, this compact has not proven to be reliable. In this presentation we will explore what happens when accidents occur despite the use of such technologies. We will focus on the clinical, legal and ethical implications of user agency and responsibility when predictive alarms receive no response and adverse outcomes ensue.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speakers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Professor Fergus Cameron<\/strong> is the Director of the Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital and the Head of the Diabetes Research Group, Murdoch Children\u2019s Research Institute. He is the current President of the International Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Diabetes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr Jamie Walvisch<\/strong> is a Senior Lecturer in the University of Western Australia Law School and a member of the UWA Centre for Health Law and Policy. His research examines the intersection of criminal law, mental health and responsibility, with a particular interest in how legal systems respond to impaired agency in principled and non-stigmatising ways. He has published widely on sentencing, mental disorder and criminal responsibility, and serves as a legal member of Western Australia\u2019s Mental Health Tribunal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr Sinead Prince<\/strong> is a Research Fellow at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at the National University of Singapore. Her background is in biomedical science and law, having received her PhD from the Queensland University of Technology in the ethics of human enhancement in 2024. Her primary research areas are the ethics of emerging biotechnologies, particularly artificial intelligence and genomics, across which she focuses on the concept and limits of autonomy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wearable health care technologies are being used increasingly. The promise of these devices is that they can track and monitor physiology, and predict adverse health outcomes, and by patent behaviour, avoid them. 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