Emma Tumilty is a bioethicist with a health service background who works in Indigenous Health Practice, Education and Research within the First Nations Health Unit of the Royal Melbourne Hospital. An Honoary Associate Professor at Deakin University, Emma was previously a Graduate Program Director in the Department of Bioethics and Health Humnainites at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston where she also worked as a clinical ethics consultant in the UTMB Health system and a research ethics consultant in the Institute of Translational Science. In her practice as consultant, educator, or researcher she centers issues of justice, using interdisciplinary approaches to address access and disadvantage in research and clinical care. This has included transplantation specific work related to obese-donor exclusion and research ethics in deceased donation.