Speakers


  • Mickael WILKS



Michael Wilks worked as a family doctor in the UK from 1977 to 1992. He then specialised in clinical forensic medicine, and works as a forensic physician in London. He has been a member of the British Medical Association’s Medical Ethics Committee (MEC) since 1994, and chaired the committee for nine years until September 2006. His other work for the BMA includes a three-year term as chairman of the BMA’s policy-making forum, the Representative Body, and the creation of a new BMA service for the support of doctors with health problems. Dr. Wilks is a trustee of the Sick Doctors Trust, which supports doctors with addictive disease, and chairs the Rehabilitation of Addicted Prisoners Trust (RAPt), which is the leading provider of abstinence-based treatment for addiction in UK prisons. He has been a member of the UK delegation to the CPME since 2002, and chaired its ethics committee until December 2007. Dr. Wilks was the CPME President for 2008 and 2009 and now chairs the eHealth User Stakeholder Group within EHTEL.

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