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Biography
Michael Wilks worked as a family doctor in the UK from 1977 to 1992. He then specialised in clinical forensic medicine, and works as a forensic physician in London.
He has been a member of the British Medical Association’s Medical Ethics Committee (MEC) since 1994, and chaired the committee for nine years until September 2006.
His other work for the BMA includes a three-year term as chairman of the BMA’s policy-making forum, the Representative Body, and the creation of a new BMA service for the support of doctors with health problems
Dr. Wilks is a trustee of the Sick Doctors Trust, which supports doctors with addictive disease, and chairs the Rehabilitation of Addicted Prisoners Trust (RAPt), which is the leading provider of abstinence-based treatment for addiction in UK prisons.
He has been a member of the UK delegation to the CPME since 2002, and chaired its ethics committee until December 2007.
Dr. Wilks is the CPME President as of January 2008.
