Thursday, February 11, 2010 at 6:00 PM (GMT)
CURRENT LEGAL PROBLEMS LECTURE SERIES 2009-10:
Law, Regulation and Public Health Research:
A case for fundamental reform?
Professor Jean McHale
University of Birmingham
on 11 February 2010, from 6-7pm
Venue:
UCL Law Faculty
Bentham House, Endsleigh Gardens
London WC1H 0EG
About the speaker:
Jean McHale took up a chair at the University of Birmingham
in September 2009. She previously taught at the Universities of East
Anglia, Nottingham, Manchester and Leicester where she held a chair in
Law. She has written several monographs and textbooks in the area of
health care law. The second edition of her textbook Health Care Law Cases and Materials with Marie Fox (Sweet and Maxwell) and the third edition of her textbook Law and Nursing
with John Tingle(Butterworth Heinemann) were both published in 2007.
She is a co-editor and contributor to two major volumes of essays for
Oxford University Press, Principles of Mental Health Law (1st edition) (with Peter Bartlett, Larry Gostin, Phil Fennell and Ronnie MacKay) and Principles of Medical Law
(3rd Edition) (with Andrew Grubb and Judy Laing) to be published in
2010. She has published papers in wide range of legal and health care
professional journals. She has given invited papers at numerous
conferences and seminars to legal, health care professional and policy
audiences.
She is a member of the Editorial Board of the Medical Law Review. She is a member of the UK Advisory Panel for Health Care Workers Affected by Blood Borne Viruses. She is also the legal member of Ethics and Governance Committee of the Airwave Health Monitoring Study which is being run jointly by the Home Office and Imperial College London. Previously she served as a member of the Promise of the Human Genome Panel of the DTI Health Task Force (1999-2000). She was a member of UK Biobank Interim Ethics and Governance Advisory Group 2003-4. She was commissioned to write a Paper on Confidentiality and Mental Health for the Expert Committee chaired by Professor Genevra Richardson into the review of the Mental Health Act 1983, published in 1999.
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