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Professor Ann Gallagher
Professor of Ethics and Care, International Care Ethics Observatory, at the University of Surrey, UK
Ann Gallagher is Professor of Ethics and Care at the University of Surrey, UK. She is Director of the International Care Ethics Observatory (http://www.surrey.ac.uk/fhms/research/centres/ICE/) and has extensive experience as a healthcare ethicist, educator, researcher, nurse & editor of the international journal Nursing Ethics.
Ann is Chair of the University of Surrey Ethics Committee, a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics and co-Chair of a hospice clinical ethics committee.
The current focus of her research relates to understanding and responding to deficits in care, dignity in care, end of life ethics and research ethics. Ann has published on a wide range of topics in healthcare ethics, for example, on restraint, force-feeding, whistleblowing and conflicts of interest. She is co-author of 'Nursing and Human Rights' (with Jean McHale) and 'Ethics in Professional Life: Virtues for Health and Social Care' (with Sarah Banks). She is co-editor of 'Ethical, Legal and Professional Aspects of Healthcare: A practice-based approach' (with Sue Hodge 2012).