Roger P Worthington

Dr Roger Worthington

Honorary Associate Professor of Medical Ethics and Law, Bond University, Australia; Assistant (Adjunct) Professor of Medicine at Yale University, USA (General Internal Medicine), and former Healthcare Law and Ethics Lead at Keele University School of Medicine, UK. Roger works as an independent consultant and adviser in the fields of medical ethics, medical education and health policy. He has an MA in medical ethics from Keele and a PhD in philosophy from the State University of New York at Buffalo. His last book (2011), co-authored with Robert Rohrbaugh, Professor of Psychiatry at Yale, is called Health Policy and Ethics - A critical examination of values from a global perspective (Radcliffe Publishing, Oxford). His next book, co-authored with Professor Richard Hays, Dean at Bond University, will be on responding to unprofessional behaviors in medicine. At a personal level, Roger has a lifelong interest in classical Indian philosophy, and in particular the philosphy of yoga.