Alastair V Campbell

Director
Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS, Singapore
Chen Su Lan Centennial Professor of Medical Ethics, NUS, Singapore

Email: medavc@nus.edu.sg
Webpage link: http://cbme.nus.edu.sg/ourstaff.html

Professor Alastair V. Campbell is the Director of CBmE. Prior to this, he was Professor of Ethics in Medicine in the Medical School of the University of Bristol and Director of its Centre for Ethics in Medicine. He is a former President of the International Association of Bioethics. With keen interest in classical music, reading and skiing, Professor Campbell is also a prolific writer with more than 30 books and book chapters as well as dictionary entries to his name; and many more articles in refereed journals. Recent books include The Body in Bioethics (Routledge-Cavendish, 2009), Health as Liberation (Pilgrim Press, 1995) and Medical Ethics, 4th Edition, co-authored with Grant Gillett and Gareth Jones (Oxford University Press, 2005). He was until recently a member of the Medical Ethics Committee of the British Medical Association and Chairman of the Ethics and Governance Council of UK Biobank. In 1999, Professor Campbell was given the prestigious Henry Knowles Beecher award, which recognizes his lifetime of contribution to ethics and the life sciences, and his excellence in scholarship, research and ethical inquiry. He is also Honorary Vice-President of the Institute of Medical Ethics, UK and an elected Fellow of The HastingsCenter, New York.

Professor Campbell is a member of the Bioethics Advisory Committee to the Singapore Government, of the National Medical Ethics Committee of the Ministry of Health and he is a Board Member of the Health Sciences Authority of Singapore and of the National Medical Research Council.