About - Trustee

Professor Raanan Gillon, Chairman

Raanan  Gillon, a hybrid medical doctor and philosopher and Chairman of the Institute of Medical Ethics Governing Body, is a retired NHS general practitioner, Emeritus Professor of Medical Ethics at Imperial College London, and a member of the British Medical Association's Medical Ethics Committee. He was Editor of the Journal of Medical Ethics for 20 years until 2001 and has  published extensively in the field of medical ethics. His 1985 book Philosophical Medical Ethics has had some 13 reprints and a second edition is planned, to be co-authored with his erstwhile colleague Daniel Sokol.