Journal of Neurology and Neurological Disorders

Professor William J Winslade is currently working as a Professor in the department of Philosophy at Medicine Institute for the Medical Humanities and Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health at University of Texas Medical Branch, USA. He received Ph. D in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois and Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute, Los Angeles, California respectively. He received a law degree (JD) from Order of the Coif, UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, California in 1972.

He has extensive experience as an ethics consultant. He established and directed the UCLA a legal and ethical consultation service (1980-1984), and the ethical consultation service at UTMB (1985-1995). He has published articles on ethics consultation and co-authored a highly regarded textbook on clinical ethics. He served as an ethics consultant for state and federal agencies, national and international professional organisations, public and private, Healthcare institutions, health professionals, patients, law firms, attorneys and other individual clients. He serves as a member of Houston Bar Association, American Society of Bioethics and Humanities, UT System and other scientific societies. He won awards from so many universities. He serves as an editorial board member for several journals.

Neuroethics

Neurolaw

Traumatic Brain Injury

Privacy and confidentiality in the physician/patient relationship

Legal and ethical issues in health care, especially terminal care

Psychodynamics of medical practice

Social and Legal Aspects of Traumatic Head Injury

Organ Transplantation

Law and Ethics of Health Policy

Universal Access to Healthcare

Prisoners as Patients: Ethics Education for Prison Health Professionals