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Dr Carolyn Johnston , Education Project Manager and Assistant

Dr Carolyn Johnston is joint project manager for the IME Education Project. She is Adviser in Medical Law & Ethics at King's College London School of Medicine and Senior Lecturer at Kingston University. She originally trained as a solicitor. She completed the MA in Medical Law and Ethics at King's College London in 1997 and has specialised in medical law since then. Between 2002 and 2005 she worked at the Ethox Centre, University of Oxford, as Project Officer for the UK Clinical Ethics Network and as Education and Training Coordinator for the Education for Ethics Support Project. She is a member of the Clinical Ethics Committee at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London and also at Central and North West London Mental Health Trust and is an Associate Hospital Manager, SW London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust. Carolyn's particular research interests include advance decisions and the involvement of adolescents in healthcare decision making. She has recently coauthored 100 Cases in Clinical Ethics and Law (Johnston and Bradbury, Hodder Arnold, 2008)