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]


Jonathan Montgomery
Born
Jonathan Montgomery
NationalityBritish
Board member ofNon-Executive Director, Health Data Research UK. Chair, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Academic background
EducationKing's College School, Wimbledon
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Academic work
DisciplineLaw
Sub-disciplineHealth care law
InstitutionsUniversity College London
Notable worksHealth Care Law (Oxford University Press 2nd ed 2002).
Websitewww.laws.ucl.ac.uk/people/jonathan-montgomery

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.

Books edit

  • Health Care Law (2nd edition, Oxford University Press, 2002)[12]

References edit

  1. ^ "Staff profile, UCL". 25 August 2017.
  2. ^ "Human Genetics Commission - About the HGC". webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk. none. Archived from the original on 16 February 2009. Retrieved 29 November 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  3. ^ "Nuffield Council on Bioethics, Council Members".
  4. ^ "Professor Jonathan Montgomery confirmed as Chair of Health Research Authority".
  5. ^ "Health Research Authority". Archived from the original on 14 July 2022. Retrieved 14 July 2022.
  6. ^ "European Group on Ethics (EGE) website".
  7. ^ "NHS changes: Prof Jonathan Montgomery's views". BBC News.
  8. ^ Hill, Matthew (3 March 2017). "Artificial 'embryos' created in the lab". BBC News.
  9. ^ "Police making arrests 'just to gather DNA samples'". 24 November 2009.
  10. ^ "Scientists make test tube embryo breakthrough, The Telegraph". Financial Times. 4 May 2016.
  11. ^ "Evidence to the Science and Technology Committee".
  12. ^ Vivienne Harpwood (1997). "Book review - Health Care Law". British Medical Journal. 315 (7108): 615. doi:10.1136/bmj.315.7108.615a. S2CID 57254312.