Biography
Elizabeth qualified as a medical practitioner from Imperial College London in 1996 (having taken an intercalated BSc in Neurosciences). She trained as a Psychiatrist in Manchester and Cambridge, and during this time completed a Post-graduate Diploma (conversion course) with the College of Law, MA in Medical Ethics and Law at King’s College London and a PhD on the ethics of compulsory psychiatric treatment supervised by Prof. Tony Holland and Dr Isabel Clare (Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge). She worked as a Consultant Psychiatrist in both General Adult Psychiatry and Rehabilitation Psychiatry (2010-14). She was awarded Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 2018. Elizabeth now works part-time for the University and spends the rest of her week practising as a Medical Member of the First Tier Tribunal (Mental Health).
Research
Legal issues connected to consent to treatment and mental capacity; Empirical Ethics in Psychiatry; Medical education (particularly ethics and professionalism education).
Publications
Teaching and Supervisions
Elizabeth has been running the Ethics and Law component of the Clinical Course since 2008 and co-ordinating the delivery of the Professional Responsibilities Course since 2017. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and she was awarded a Pilkington Teaching Prize in 2021. Elizabeth is a Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College where she is a Director of Studies in Clinical Medicine for standard and affiliate course students (since 2020). She has a particular interest in widening participation in higher education and in medicine.
I offer supervision to clinical medical students at the University of Cambridge who wish to gain experience of research in the fields of medical ethics and/or medical law, as part of a Student Selected Component (Year 4) or elective (Year 5).
