Jeff Sapiro
Director of Programmes
Department: School of Health and Social Sciences
Contact
- Telephone: +44 (0)20 8411 4503
- E-mail: j.sapiro@mdx.ac.uk
Qualifications
- MA Medical Law and Ethics: Kings College London
- PGDip Health Care Ethics: Kings College London
- Registered General Nurse: Lewisham Hospital London
- Registered Mental Nurse: Maudsley Hospital London
- Dip Community Nursing: West London Institute of Higher Education
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Research Interests
- Legal and ethical aspects of mental health care
- Human rights and mental health care
- The concept of personhood in health care
- Human rights and end of life decisions
Teaching Interests
- Legal and ethical aspects of health care:
- Ethics and law in health and social care
- Human rights
- End of life decisions
- Ethics and law in mental health care
- Values based practice
Biography
Selected Publications/ Seminars
Sapiro, J and Ungoed-Thomas, A (2001) Euthanasia and the Human Rights Act: in Healthcare: the Impact of the Human Rights Act 1998; (Eds Tingle, J, Griffiths, J and Garwood-Gowers, A) London, Cavendish Publishing.
Administrative and professional duties/roles
- Director of Programmes, Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Mental Health, Social Work and Interprofessional Learning
- Member: Academic Development and Quality Committee
- Member: Nursing and Midwifery Executive Team
- Specialist Reader and Reviewer for the National Teaching Fellowship Scheme, Higher Education Academy
- External Examiner Bucks New University and St Mary's University College
Partners
- University Link to the Tavistock and Portman NHS
- Trust Link tutor to community mental health teams within Camden Islington Mental Health and Social Care Trust.
Professional Membership
- Registrant of Nursing and Midwifery Council
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy



