Thomas Alured Faunce is a Professor jointly in the College of Law and Medical School at the Australian National University (ANU) at Canberra Australia. His main area of research has been health technology law and policy and he was awarded an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship to study nanotechnology and global public health. Faunce is an author of books, articles and book chapters about health law, health policy and bioethics.
Education
Thomas Alured Faunce graduated with arts and law (honours) from the Australian National University in 1982. As a law student he won the prizes for contracts and air and space law was part of a team which won the Philip C. Jessup Cup international law mooting competition. Faunce graduated from medicine at the University of Newcastle in 1993 and practised in Emergency Medicine at Wagga Wagga Base Hospital.
Career
As a law student Thomas Alured Faunce won the prizes for contracts and air and space law was part of a team which won the Philip C. Jessup Cup international law mooting competition.Faunce was legal associate to Justice Lionel Murphy of the High Court of Australia in 1983 in the year when it was involved in important decisions about the Australian constitutional power to protect the world's natural heritage in the Franklin River dam case, Scientology and the Australian constitutional meaning of religion, freedom of speech, trial by jury, the right to vote and the political trials of terrorist groups. Between 1983 and 1987 he worked as a barrister and solicitor with Mallesons Stephen Jaques in Canberra and with Freehills in Sydney.
Faunce graduated from medicine at the University of Newcastle in 1993 and practised in Emergency Medicine at Wagga Wagga Base Hospital, and Intensive Care and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology at the Canberra Hospital and (as Senior Registrar in Intensive Care) at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne Australia (where he treated patients involved in the 2002 Bali bombings).He has published a text on anaesthetic and intensive care physiology and pharmacology.
Faunce completed a PhD on the Human Genome Project and Health Policy at the ANU in 2000. This has now been published as 'Pilgrims in Medicine' by Kluwer law International. Faunce was a founding member of the National Biosecurity Centre at the ANU, has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Medical Humanities and edits the Medical law Reporter for the Australian Journal of Law and Medicine. He currently serves on the executive board and in the artificial photosynthesis group with the ANU Energy Change Institute and on the ACT Civil and Administrative Appeals Tribunal.