Term: 01/01/2021 - 31/08/2023
Having first worked in publishing and in the British Library, I became a lawyer and spent ten years in commercial litigation practice in the City. Since 2007 I have been an academic lawyer. I am a Senior Lecturer at the University of Law Online campus (having been till October 2021 at the Bloomsbury campus). I have a research interest in medical law, particularly mental capacity and the elderly, having written for the Medico-Legal Journal, and I also write for several company law texts. I hold an MA in Classics from Magdalen College, Oxford, and an MA in Medical Law from King’s College London.
Having been born in UCLH, I have long been influenced by my mother’s accounts of the years which she spent in hospital as a child with an orthopaedic condition. For many years I have witnessed the outstanding treatment and care which she has received at UCLH, in several outpatient departments and in occasional inpatient stays – including during this challenging Covid pandemic. I am particularly interested in care of the elderly and in nutrition and hydration.
I previously served a term as a patient Governor at UCLH from September 2011, and am honoured to have the opportunity to undertake a second term. I am wholeheartedly committed to doing whatever I can to support the organisation and its continued flourishing, in these gruelling times and beyond.
