Raanan Gillon

Raanan Evelyn Zvi Gillon FRCP (; born April 1941) is emeritus professor of medical ethics at Imperial College London, and past president of the British Medical Association.

A general practitioner until his retirement in 2002, Gillon edited the ''Journal of Medical Ethics'' from 1980 to 2002, and from 1995 to 1999 was professor at Imperial. He is an author on several works on medical ethics including ''Philosophical Medical Ethics''.

Gillon is credited with making "a major philosophical contribution to critical thinking about moral issues raised by the practice of medicine" and with being "the leading British advocate and interpreter of Beauchamp and Childress's four principles approach" to moral reasoning in healthcare. Provided by Wikipedia