About - Honorary Members

Professor John Harris, Joint Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Medical Ethics

John Harris FMedSci, is Director of The Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation and of the Wellcome Strategic Programme in The Human Body, its Scope Limits and Future, School of Law, University of Manchester, where is he is Lord Alliance Professor of Bioethics. He is joint Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Medical Ethics and has been a member of The United Kingdom Human Genetics Commission since its foundation in 1999 and is a Member of the Medical Ethics Committee of the British Medical Association. Recent Books Include: Clones Genes and Immortality. Oxford University Press, 1998. John Harris Ed. Bioethics. Oxford Readings in Philosophy Series, Oxford University Press. 2001. Justine C. Burley and John Harris Eds. A Companion To Genethics: philosophy and the genetic revolution. Basil Blackwell, Oxford. 2002.(Blackwell's Companions to Philosophy series) and On Cloning, Routledge. London, 2004. His new book Enhancing Evolution was published by Princeton University Press in 2007.

Professor Søren Holm, Joint Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Medical Ethics

John Harris FMedSci, is Director of The Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation and of the Wellcome Strategic Programme in The Human Body, its Scope Limits and Future, School of Law, University of Manchester, where is he is Lord Alliance Professor of Bioethics. He is joint Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Medical Ethics and has been a member of The United Kingdom Human Genetics Commission since its foundation in 1999 and is a Member of the Medical Ethics Committee of the British Medical Association. Recent Books Include: Clones Genes and Immortality. Oxford University Press, 1998. John Harris Ed. Bioethics. Oxford Readings in Philosophy Series, Oxford University Press. 2001. Justine C. Burley and John Harris Eds. A Companion To Genethics: philosophy and the genetic revolution. Basil Blackwell, Oxford. 2002.(Blackwell's Companions to Philosophy series) and On Cloning, Routledge. London, 2004. His new book Enhancing Evolution was published by Princeton University Press in 2007.

Dr Deborah Kirklin, Editor of Medical Humanities

Deborah Kirklin is a family physician in North London, an Honorary Senior Lecturer in Medical Ethics and Humanities at University College London, and Editor of the BMJ journal Medical Humanities. She graduated from Oxford University in 1986, completed an MA in Medical Law and Ethics at King's College London in 1998, and in 2005 completed a PhD in Medical Ethics at Manchester University. Her research interests include the legal, ethical and social implications of the new genetics, end of life care, women's health, interpretative approaches to ethical analysis, and medical education. http://www.deborahkirklin.com/

Professor Richard Ashcroft, Deputy Editor of the Journal of Medical Ethics

Professor of Bioethics; School of Law; Queen Mary, University of London Richard Ashcroft has taught medical ethics and bioethics in the medical schools of Bristol, Imperial College London, and Queen  Mary/Barts and the London for ten years, before his recent move to  Queen Mary's School of Law. He is a member of the Gene Therapy  Advisory Committee and the Ethics of Research and Public Involvement Committee of the Medical Research Council. http://www.law.qmul.ac.uk/people/academic/ashcroft.html

Dr Gwen Adshead

Consultant Forensic Psychotherapist Gwen Adshead trained as a forensic psychiatrist at St George's Hospital and the Institute of Psychiatry. She also completed her Master's Degree in Medical Law & Ethics at Kings and also chaired the Royal College of Psychiatrists Ethics Committee for five years. She teaches and writes about ethics in mental health; especially ethical reasoning in psychiatry. Gwen works at Broadmoor Hospital as a forensic psychotherapist looking at ethics in therapeutic and clinical ways.

Dr Angela Fenwick

Angela Fenwick is a Senior Lecturer in Medical Ethics and Education at the University of Southampton and co-ordinates the ethics and law teaching for undergraduate medical students. Her background is in social science and she has also taught sociology applied to medicine. Angela chairs the School of Medicine Research Ethics Committee and sits on the hospital CEC. She also sits on the board of trustees for the UK Clinical Ethics Network (UKCEN). She has many years experience of medical education and in particular developing and evaluating educational programmes. Her current interests include the use of the body in medicine, the limits of individual autonomy and how we can better help medical students to engage with ethics and law.

Dr Elizabeth Macleod FACRRM

Emergency Consultant Elizabeth Macleod studied Law in London then took Bachelor of Arts (Hons) and Masters in Medical Science at Cambridge University, with her thesis in Medicine, Ethics and Law -1978. She was Licenced to practice Medicine at the Apothecaries of London in 1982 and  took Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (Hons) at Cambridge University in 1985.  She practiced Emergency Medicine on the Central coast of NSW Australia form 1986, until returning to the UK in 2007. In 2004 she became a Fellow of the College of Rural and Remote Medicine and took her Masters in Health Law at the University of Western Sydney School of Law also in 2004. Currently, she works at the Royal London Hospital Emergency Department. Her interest in clinical medicine is in Trauma and in Child Abuse. She also teaches Medicine Ethics and Law to students, undergraduates and post graduates.

Julian Sheather

Dr Julian Sheather (PhD) is ethics manager at the British Medical Association. His particular interests lie in mental health and mental capacity, in consent and capacity issues in relation to children and young people and in public health ethics. He is the BMA's policy lead on child protection and on health and human rights. Julian has worked in the BMA Ethics Department for seven years following a spell as a researcher in international health policy for the BMA's International Department. He is a co-author of Medical Ethics Today, the BMA's handbook on medical ethics and medical law, and is a regular contributor to the British Medical Journal and The Journal of Medical Ethics. He sits on the British Medical Journal's ethics committee, the Institute of Medical Ethics and is on the advisory board of BIOS at the LSE. He lectures widely both nationally and internationally on a range of topics in medical ethics.

Dr Daniel Sokol

Lecturer in medical ethics and law Daniel Sokol teaches medical ethics at St George's University of London. His interests are in the doctor-patient relationship and hospital ethics. He is associate editor of the Postgraduate Medical Journal and BMC Medical Ethics. Website: http:/www.medicalethicist.net

Professor Julie Stone

Julie Stone is currently a Visiting Professor, Peninsula Medical School and Non-Executive Director of the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly PCT. Julie has worked as a lawyer, academic and policy maker for many years, and has a particular interest in professional regulation.