About - Trustees

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.

Professor Roger Higgs, Treasurer

Roger Higgs has worked for over 30 years in south London as general practitioner and academic. He founded a single-handed practice that went on to be a major multidisciplinary group, and started the Department of General Practice and Primary Care at Kings College School of Medicine (now Kings College). Awarded MBE as service developer and educator, he has published in these areas as well as medicine and bioethics. His particular interests in the latter are case analysis, truth telling and narrative approaches, and books include In That Case with Alastair Campbell and the New Dictionary of Medical Ethics with Kenneth Boyd and Anthony Pinching. He also contributed to the writing of an early medical 'soap'.

Mark Brennan

Mark Brennan is a clinical educator and clinical ethicist. Mark qualified in Medical Ethics and Law at King's College London (MA, 1991). He is an honorary associate dean in the Postgraduate Deanery for Kent, Surrey and Sussex, an honorary senior lecturer at Cardiff University and in the East Kent Hospitals University NHS Trust, a module leader on the MSc in Primary Dental Care at the Faculty of General Dental Practice at the Royal College of Surgeons in England, and a visiting tutor at the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry. Mark has been the education adviser to The Medical Defence Union since 1996 and is co-author of The Practical Guide to Medical Ethics and Law (Pastest, 2005 2nd edition) and Ethics and Law for the Dental Team (Pastest, 2006).

Dr Antonia Cronin

Antonia Cronin qualified as a medical practitioner from St. Bartholomew's and The Royal London School of Medicine in 1996. Since completing her general professional training in 2000, she has worked within the North Thames higher specialist training programme in Nephrology and General Internal Medicine. As a result of such training, she has developed a specialist interest in ethical, legal, as well as medical issues, involved in organ transplantation. She completed an MA in Medical Ethics and Law at King's College, London. Antonia Cronin is currently a Wellcome Trust Research Grant holder examining the global development and evolution of organ transplantation under the co-supervision of Prof. John Harris at the University of Manchester, and Prof. Robert Lechler at King's College, London. Her research will explore the evolution of transplant biology and address ethical issues that arise from it, as well as altruism and commercialism in living donor organ transplantation in both the developed and developing world.

Dr Colin Currie

Colin Currie is a senior lecturer and honorary consultant in geriatric medicine (Edinburgh University and NHS Lothian), with main clinical interests in orthogeriatric care and hip fracture audit. He has also been involved in developing clinical standards and inspection processes in relation to older peoples' care; and in policy development in Scotland and England, as a special adviser in Scottish and UK government. From the 1970's until 2008 he was heavily involved in the teaching of geriatric medicine -- including ethical aspects -- for Edinburgh medical undergraduates. Recent publications include: Currie CT, Hutchison JD. (2005). Audit, guidelines and standards: Clinical governance for hip fracture care in Scotland. Disability and Rehabilitation 27, 1099-1105; Sahota O, Currie CT. (2008) Hip fracture care: all change. Age and Ageing 37:1-2 (Editorial)

Professor Bobbie Farsides

Professor of Clinical and Biomedical Ethics, Brighton and Sussex Medical School Bobbie Farsides has been teaching and researching in the field for twenty years, first at Keele University, then King's College London and now at BSMS. She is co-editor of the Royal Society of Medicine journal Clinical Ethics and lead investigator for the Brighton site of LABTEC, one of the Wellcome Trust funded strategic centres in biomedical ethics. Her research focuses on the experience of health care professionals and scientists operating in morally contested fields of medicine.  Bobbie is also involved in public policy work as a member of various committees including the Organ Donation Taskforce, and has twice served as a Specialist Adviser to House of Lords committees http://www.bsms.ac.uk/research/oncology/bobbie_farsides.htm

Professor Sally Glen

Sally Glen has responsibility for the academic portfolio, curriculum development, quality systems and academic standards, learning and teaching, the student learning experience, and e-learning in the University. She is Chair of the West Midland Higher Education Health Group, Co-Chair of the West Midlands Higher Education National Health Service Strategic Partnership Group, and a member of the West Midlands Strategic Health Authority Stakeholder Board. Sally Glen is also an Institutional Reviewer for the QAA and was a member of the "Higher Degrees" Review Panel and HEFCE "CELT" advisory panel. She is a member of the HEFCE Widening Access and Participation Strategic Advisory Committee. Before joining the University in September 2006, Professor Glen was Deputy Director of the Institute of Health Sciences/Dean of School of Nursing and Midwifery/Professor of Education at City University. From 1996 to 2000 she was inaugural Dean/Professor of Education of the School of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Dundee. Previous academic appointments include: Acting Head of the School of Health and Social Care, London South Bank University, Senior Lecturer, University of Glasgow, Lecturer at the Institute of Education, University of London. Her research interests include philosophical approaches to professional education in health and social care. She has published widely in the field of health and social care education. Sally is currently on the Editorial Board of "Learning in Health and Social Care", a Non-Executive Director of City and East London Foundation Trust and chairs the Trust's Ethics Committee, Serious Untoward Incident Committee and Mental Health Act Review Committee. She is also a member of the Board of the Institute of Medical Ethics and has also been a Governor at the Homerton University Hospital Trust.

Dr Zoe Fritz

Zoe Fritz is a medical registrar in Acute Medicine and Intensive Care, currently working at Addenbrooke's Hospital,Cambridge. She represents Junior Doctors on the Governing Body, and is helping to plan methods to keep clinicians educated and interested in medical ethics. Zoe introduced an “affirmation ceremony” at Imperial College, London to help make doctors aware of the responsibilities they were taking on, and co-wrote “affirmation of a new doctor” http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/323/7327/1440. She has a strong interest on the issues surrounding DNAR, and the ethical issues surrounding the critically unwell, and is currently researching these topics.

Dr Hazel McHaffie

Hazel McHaffie was formerly Deputy Director of Research, Institute of Medical Ethics, University of Edinburgh. Currently she is the author of a series of novels set in the world of medical ethics.  http://www.hazelmchaffie.com/

Dr Wing May Kong PhD, MA, FRCP

Consultant Physician and Honorary Senior Lecturer Head of Section of Medical Ethics and Law, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College Wing May Kong is a consultant endocrinologist and since 2006 has been the lead for medical ethics and law teaching in the medical school at Imperial College. She is also on the Advisory Council for the Drugs and Therapeutics Bulletin. She qualified from Cambridge University and during her speciality training completed a PhD in neurophysiology at Imperial College and a Masters in Medical Ethics and Law from King's College London. She has published in basic science and clinical medicine and more recently in medical ethics and law. As Head of the Section of Medical Ethics and Law her focus has been on widening engagement of clinicians in medical ethics teaching and greater vertical and horizontal integration of ethics within the undergraduate curriculum. http://www1.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/people/w.kong

Professor Margaret Lloyd, Chair of Grants and Bursaries

Emeritus Professor of Primary Care and Medical Education University College London Medical School. Margaret Lloyd retired from UCL in 2006 having led the Professional Development Spine of the undergraduate medical curriculum. She continues to work as a general practitioner in north London.

Vivienne Nathanson

Vivienne Nathanson qualified at Middlesex Hospital Medical School in London, 1978 and then spent five and a half years in various hospital medical posts before joining the British Medical Association staff in 1984. She was appointed as Scottish Secretary (Chief Executive) for the BMA 1990-1995, and then as Head of Central Services and International Affairs 1995-1996. She is now Director of Professional Activities at the BMA, which encompasses all the professional areas of work of the BMA including Ethics, Science, Medical Education, Public Health, Doctors' Health, Equal Opportunities, International Affairs and Conferencing. She has a particular personal interest in public health, including public health ethics, and has written extensively on issues such as dual obligations. In 2004 Vivienne Nathanson became an Honorary Professor in the School for Health at Durham University. She was also awarded an honorary Doctor of Science by Strathclyde University. In 2008 she was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.

Professor Anthony Pinching

Associate Dean for Cornwall Tony Pinching is also Professor of Clinical Immunology, Peninsula College of Medicine & Dentistry and is based at the Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro. His current academic and clinical interests include chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS/ME), as well as medical ethics and medical humanities.

Professor Rosamund Scott

Professor of Medical Law and Ethics Rosamund Scott joined the Centre of Medical Law and Ethics and the School of Law in 1998. Her academic background is in philosophy (Australian National University, Canberra) and law (Corpus Christi College, Oxford). She is currently a member of the Ethics Committee of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Clinical Ethics, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Society for Applied Philosophy. Rosamund is also a barrister. http://kcl.ac.uk/schools/law/about/staff/s/scottr.html

Dr Anne-Marie Slowther

Ann Slowther is Associate Professor of Clinical Ethics at Warwick Medical School and an associate Fellow of the Ethox Centre in Oxford where she is Director of the Clinical Ethics Support Programme. Ann is a member of the Board of Trustees of the UK Clinical Ethics Network and also a practising GP in Coventry.

Gordon M Stirrat, Chairman of the Education Project Steering Group

Emeritus Professsor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Gordon Stirrat is also Senior Research Fellow in Ethics in Medicine, University of Bristol: and previously Dean of Faculty of Medicine and Pro-vice Chancellor, University of Bristol. 

Revd Bryan Vernon

Lecturer in Health Care Ethics, Newcastle University Bryan Vernon is also Honorary Chaplain, Newcastle University & Newcastle Hospitals NHS Trust. He is also a member of Newcastle Hospitals Clinical Ethics Committee.