Ian Kennedy (legal scholar) explained

Sir Ian Kennedy
Birth Name:Ian McColl Kennedy
Birth Date:1941 9, df=y
Birth Place:Tipton, Staffordshire, England[1]
Known For:Academic Lawyer
Education:King Edward VI College, Stourbridge, Worcestershire[2]
Employer:University College London
Occupation:Emeritus Professor of Health Law, Ethics and Policy
Spouse:1. Ilsa Echegaray (married 1967) (divorced c.1970) (died 2006)[3] 2. Mary Kennedy3. Andrea Gage

Sir Ian McColl Kennedy[4] (born 14 September 1941) is a British academic lawyer who has specialised in the law and ethics of health. He was appointed to chair the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority in 2009.[5]

Education and academic career

1952–1959: He attended King Edward VI College, Stourbridge, Worcestershire where he spent four years in the sixth form.

1960–1963: He attended University College, London, graduated 1st class Hons. LLB.

1963–1965: Fulbright Fellow at University of California, Berkeley (LLM).

1965–1970: Sub-Dean, Tutor and Lecturer in Law at University College, London (LLD).

1966–1967: Ford Foundation fellow of Yale University and Mexico University.

In the summer of 1969 Kennedy visited Cuba to study the administration of justice, supported by a Hayter Fellowship awarded by the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London (by Prof. R.A. Humphreys). In December/January 1970 – 1971 he returned to Cuba to gain information for his paper titled "Cuba's Ley Contra La Vagancia – The Law on Loafing".[6]

Kennedy was Dean of the Law School at King's College London, from 1986 to 1996. Kennedy is Emeritus Professor of Health Law, Ethics and Policy at University College London. He is an honorary Bencher of the Inner Temple.

Kennedy was the BBC's Reith lecturer (on the subject of "Unmasking Medicine") in 1980[7] and hosted many editions of After Dark on Channel 4.[8]

Committees and inquiries

Kennedy has been a member of numerous committees and inquiries.

For nine years, he was a member of the General Medical Council. In 1978, he founded the Centre of Medical Laws and Ethics, of which he later became president. He also served as member of the Medicines Commission, and the Department of Health advisory group on AIDS. He is a member of the board of the UK Research Integrity Office.[9]

In 1997, he took part in a UK Government inquiry that gave cautious approval to xenotransplantation (the use of animal-to-human transplants), and in 1998, was a member of the committee that recommended pet passports.

Kennedy was a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics 1991–2002 and Chair during 1998–2002.

Kennedy is a trustee of homeless health charity Pathway.[10]

He chaired the public inquiry into children's heart surgery at the Bristol Royal Infirmary (1998–2001),[11] which concluded that paediatric cardiac surgery services at Bristol were "simply not up to the task", because of shortages of key surgeons and nurses, and a lack of leadership, accountability, and teamwork. This resulted in his becoming chair of the Healthcare Commission,[12] from its creation (in shadow form) in 2003, until it was merged with other regulatory bodies to form the Care Quality Commission in 2009. In October 2009, Kennedy became chair of the King's Fund’s inquiry into the quality of general practice in England, replacing Niall Dickson.[13] He led an inquiry into the work of breast surgeon Ian Paterson in Birmingham in 2013.

Involvement in medicine and alternative medicine

In 2010, he was elected inaugural Vice-President of the College of Medicine,[14] an organisation set up to bring together patients and clinicians on an equal footing.[15] Several commentators, writing in The Guardian[16] [17] and The British Medical Journal[18] [19] [20] [21] claim that this organisation is simply a re-branding of Prince Charles' alternative medicine lobbying group the Foundation for Integrated Health. This has been denied by the College of Medicine[22] whose President is Graeme Catto, for seven years the President of the General Medical Council.

Awards

Kennedy was knighted in 2002 for services to medical law and bioethics. He is an Honorary Fellow of:[9]

He was also awarded an Honorary DSc degree by the University of Glasgow in 2003.[23]

Publications

Notes and References

  1. Hill . Stan . Eminent Black Country Folk – Ian McColl Kennedy . 21 . 4 . The Blackcountryman . The Black Country Society .
  2. Book: Who's Who 2010 . 162 . 978-1408114148 . 7 December 2009 . A & C Black.
  3. Web site: Healthy Organization Workgroup. University of Puerto Rico. 16 March 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140314211922/http://pso.uprrp.edu/new_page_5.htm. 14 March 2014. dead.
  4. News: MPs' expenses: Profile of Sir Paul Kennedy, new judge of allowance claims . Swaine . Jon . . 2 December 2009 . 9 January 2013.
  5. Web site: Profile: Sir Ian Kennedy . Tran . Mark . . 4 November 2009 . 9 January 2013.
  6. Kennedy . Ian McColl . Cuba's Ley Contra La Vagancia – The Law on Loafing . 1177 . 20 . 1973 . UCLA Law Review . . 9 January 2013.
  7. Web site: The Reith Lectures: Unmasking Medicine, Ian Kennedy, 1980 . . 9 January 2013.
  8. Web site: After Dark . 9 January 2013.
  9. Web site: Advisory Board Members . . 9 January 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130314190201/http://www.ukrio.org/about-us/board-members/ . 14 March 2013 . dead .
  10. Web site: Pathway – Our People. Pathway – Healthcare for Homeless People. 9 April 2018.
  11. Web site: Who's who . The Bristol Royal Infirmary Inquiry . http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20090811143745/http://www.bristol-inquiry.org.uk/about/whos_who/index.htm . 11 August 2009 . 9 January 2013.
  12. Web site: About us – The Commissioners . http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20080930073207/http://www.healthcarecommission.org.uk/aboutus/whoarewe/thecommissioners.cfm . . 30 September 2008 . 9 January 2013.
  13. Web site: Sir Ian Kennedy joins The King's Fund's inquiry into the quality of general practice . . 21 October 2009 . 9 January 2013.
  14. Web site: Professor Sir Ian Kennedy . . 9 January 2013. 14 October 2010 .
  15. Web site: About the College of Medicine . . 9 January 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130116142103/http://www.collegeofmedicine.org.uk/about-college-medicine . 16 January 2013 . dead .
  16. News: College of Medicine born from ashes of Prince Charles's holistic health charity . Ian Sample . The Guardian . 2 August 2010 . London.
  17. News: College of Medicine is a lobby group promoting unproven treatments . Edzard Ernst . . 10 January 2012.
  18. British Medical Journal . 343 . d3712 . 10.1136/bmj.d3712 . 15 June 2011 . Lobby Watch: The College of Medicine . Jane Cassidy . 21677014.
  19. British Medical Journal . 343 . d4368 . 10.1136/bmj.d4368 . 12 July 2011 . The College of Medicine is Prince's Foundation reincarnated . David Colquhoun . 21750061. 26752930 .
  20. British Medical Journal . 343 . d4372 . 10.1136/bmj.d4372 . 12 July 2011 . College of Medicine: What is integrative health? . James May . 21750063. 206893456 .
  21. British Medical Journal . 343 . d4370 . 10.1136/bmj.d4370 . 12 July 2011 . College of Medicine or College of Quackery? . Edzard Ernst . 21750062. 8061172 .
  22. College of Medicine replies to its critics . . 2011 . 343 . 4364 . 10.1136/bmj.d4364 . 9 January 2013 . 21750060. Lewith . G. T. . Catto . G. . Dixon . M. . Glover . C. . Halligan . A. . Kennedy . I. . Manning . C. . Peters . D. . 21334595 .
  23. Biography of Professor Sir Ian Kennedy . Blakes Parliamentary Yearbook . 2009 . 9 January 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131202221944/http://www.parliamentaryyearbook2009.co.uk/CP/the-nhs-today-professor-sir-ian-kennedy-chairman-of-the-healthcare-commission.html . 2 December 2013 . dead .

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