BMJ Ethics committee

BMJ Ethics committee

  • Iona Heath, general practitioner, Caversham Group Practice (chair)
  • Liz Wager, publications consultant, Sideview
  • Hilda Bastian, head of department, German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care
  • Charles Warlow, professor of medical neurology, University of Edinburgh
  • Derick Wade, consultant and professor in neurological rehabilitation, Oxford Centre for Enablement
  • Asad Raja, associate professor, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
  • Ainsley Newson, lecturer in biomedical ethics, Centre for Ethics in Medicine, University of Bristol
  • Jacinta Tan, research fellow and honorary consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist, University of Oxford
  • Nick Pace, lead clinician in anaesthesia, Western Infirmary, Glasgow
  • Fiona Godlee, editor, BMJ
  • Julian Sheather, senior ethics adviser, BMA
  • John Weller, committee secretary, BMJ
  • Peter Lapsley, patient editor, BMJ

The committee is recruited through open advertisement in the lay press and the BMJ, and we welcome applications from both within and outside the UK.



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