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Paul Macneill is an Honorary Associate Professor at Sydney Health Ethics within the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney. He holds degrees including an LLB in law, an MA with honours in psychology, and a PhD in history and philosophy of science. His extensive academic career in medical ethics and bioethics includes his current role at the University of Sydney since 2014, emphasizing research, writing, and some teaching. Previously, from 2010 to 2014, he served as Professor at the National University of Singapore's Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, where he directed the Centre for Biomedical Ethics and chaired the Professionalism Task Force. Earlier, he was Associate Professor from 1976 to 2006 in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine at the University of New South Wales. He has also been affiliated with the Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine at the University of Sydney.

Macneill's research specializations and academic interests cover ethics as practice rather than abstract reasoning, medical professionalism, healthcare culture change, bioethics, research ethics, biomedical ethics, applied ethics, ethics and the arts, medical humanities, cross-cultural ethics, yoga and ethics, and relationships between medical specialists and the pharmaceutical industry. He edited the book Ethics and the Arts (Springer, 2014) and contributed to The Ethics and Politics of Human Experimentation (Cambridge University Press). Key publications include 'Grace Under Pressure: a drama-based approach to tackling mistreatment of medical students' (Medical Humanities, 2016), 'Verbatim Theater: Prompting Reflection and Discussion about Healthcare Culture as a Means of Promoting Culture Change' (Teaching and Learning in Medicine, 2020), 'A professionalism program in medical education and training – From broad values to specific applications: YLL School of Medicine, Singapore' (Medical Teacher, 2020), 'Yoga as Therapy-Therapy as Yoga' (Journal of Yoga and Physiotherapy, 2018), and 'Bioethics and the Myth of Neutrality' (Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 2023). He has advanced medical education through verbatim theatre and actor training workshops for healthcare professionals. Macneill is a former president of the Australasian Bioethics Association.