About this event
The fifth year annual ethics conference took place on 22-23 November 2021. The conference featured a variety of high-profile speakers including Dr Patricia Lohr, Dr Jonathan Koffman, Dr Ulla McKnight and Dr Fionnuala Finnerty.
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Dr Patricia Lohr
Twitter handle: @lohrpa
Dr Lohr completed her medical education at the University of Southern California and trained in Obstetrics and Gynaecologyat the Los Angeles County-Harbor UCLA Medical Center. This was followed by a Fellowship in Family Planning & Contraceptive Research at the University of Pittsburgh during which she was also awarded a Masters’ Degree in Public Health. Dr Lohr has been the Medical Director of British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) since 2007.
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Dr Jonathan Koffman
Twittter handle: @JonathanKoffman
Jonathan has a BSc in Social Administration and an MSc in Sociology with Special Reference to Medicine. His PhD from King's College London explored the experience of living with, and dying from, advanced cancer among black Caribbean and white patients living in southeast London. Prior to coming to King's, Jonathan worked for the National Health Service (NHS) as a public health specialist, involved in implementing the reforms of the early 1990s.
Dr Ulla McKnight
Twitter handle: @McknightUlla
Dr Ulla McKnight is working on a Wellcome Trust funded project entitled ‘Inequalities and tackling antimicrobial resistance in sexual health: marginalisation and the microbe’. The research seeks to ethnographically map different forms of mobilisation against antimicrobial resistance in sexual and women’s health, in the United Kingdom and the United States – exploring the experiences of people suffering recurrent or persistent infections and how different clinical settings address questions of inequality or marginalisation.
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Dr Fionnuala Finnerty
Twitter handle: @finnertf
Dr Fionnuala Finnerty is a Medical Education Fellow at BSMS and an SpR in Sexual Health and HIV. She is interested in healthcare equality, social justice and healthcare of refugees and asylum seekers. She undertook a BHIVA/University of Zimbabwe fellowship in Harare and is SpR representative on the BASHH Sexual Violence Special Interest group.
Dr Neil Singh
Twitter handle: @NeilSinghHQ
Dr Neil Singh studied medicine at the University of Cambridge,where he won the Cuthbert Prize in medical humanities. Afterinitially working in hospital medicine as an Academic Trainee,then a Clinical Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge(working on stem cell biology), he realised his interests lay not atthe level of molecules, but rather in the study of the healthdeterminants of entire populations. He completed a Masters’ inPublic Health at the American University of Beirut, as an NIH-funded SHARP Scholar. He is now proud to be a primary carephysician working locally, with a particular clinical interest incaring for vulnerable groups.
View Neil's slides here >
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