Tania Moerenhout Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law Conference

Tania Moerenhout

Tania Moerenhout is a general practitioner at Broadway Medical Centre in Ōtepoti Dunedin and a Senior Lecturer at the Bioethics Centre of the University of Otago. She combines academic work as a bioethicist with a part-time clinical position. She graduated as a general practitioner in Belgium in 2009 and completed a PhD in philosophy in 2019 at Ghent University before moving to Aotearoa in 2020. She became a Fellow of the RNZCGP in 2024. Her research interests are situated in the field of digital health ethics, with a specific interest in telehealth and online consultations, assistive technology for older adults, artificial intelligence, and the integration of ethical principles into health technology design. She is the convenor of the Digital Health Information Governance and Ethics paper in the Digital Health postgraduate programme of the university. Tania is Chair of the WONCA (World Organisation of Family Medicine) Working Party on Ethics and Professionalism and a member of the National Ethics Advisory Committee (NEAC) and the ethics committee of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP).