Jonathan Montgomery Explained

Honorific Prefix:Sir
Jonathan Montgomery
Birth Name:Jonathan Montgomery
Nationality:British
Boards:Non-Executive Director, Health Data Research UK. Chair, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Discipline:Law
Education:King's College School, Wimbledon
Alma Mater:University of Cambridge
Notable Works:Health Care Law (Oxford University Press 2nd ed 2002).
Website:www.laws.ucl.ac.uk/people/jonathan-montgomery

Sir Jonathan Robert Montgomery is a British legal scholar who specialises in health care law. He is Professor of Health Care Law at University College London.[1]

Professor Montgomery was chair of the[2] Nuffield Council on Bioethics, the leading UK bioethics committee, from 2012 to 2017.[3] He was appointed Chair of the Health Research Authority in 2012.[4] He was replaced by Professor Sir Terence Stephenson on 1 September 2019.[5]

In March 2017 he became a member of the European Group on Ethics (EGE), which is the leading European bioethics committee[6] He is a regular contributor to items in the media, including the BBC[7] [8] [9] and broadsheet newspapers,[10] and has given evidence to the UK Parliament.[11]

In December 2018, he was appointed Chair of the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

He was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the 2019 New Year Honours for services to Bioethics and to Healthcare Law.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Staff profile, UCL. 2017-08-25.
  2. Web site: Human Genetics Commission - About the HGC. http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20090216145841/http://www.hgc.gov.uk/Client/news_item.asp?NewsId=117. dead. 2009-02-16. webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk. en. none. 2018-11-29.
  3. Web site: Nuffield Council on Bioethics, Council Members.
  4. Web site: Professor Jonathan Montgomery confirmed as Chair of Health Research Authority.
  5. Web site: Health Research Authority . https://web.archive.org/web/20220714153007/https://www.hra.nhs.uk/about-us/who-we-are/our-board-members/professor-terence-stephenson/ . 2022-07-14 . 14 July 2022.
  6. Web site: European Group on Ethics (EGE) website.
  7. News: NHS changes: Prof Jonathan Montgomery's views. BBC News .
  8. News: Artificial 'embryos' created in the lab. BBC News. 2017-03-03. Hill. Matthew.
  9. News: Police making arrests 'just to gather DNA samples'. 2009-11-24.
  10. News: Scientists make test tube embryo breakthrough, The Telegraph. Financial Times. 4 May 2016.
  11. Web site: Evidence to the Science and Technology Committee.
  12. Vivienne Harpwood . Book review - Health Care Law. British Medical Journal . 1997. 315. 7108. 615 . 10.1136/bmj.315.7108.615a. 57254312 .