Gillian MacDougall is a recently retired Lothian ENT consultant; part of that role included telling patients that they have developed cancer and sometimes that it was incurable. She liaised closely with palliative care colleagues to ensure that patients with terminal head and neck cancer experienced the best death possible, but has always felt that we need the option of assisted dying to improve the experience of some. During her time as a junior doctor she was part of a head injuries team and has experience in asking bereaved families to consider organ donation. She has been a long term supporter of  a change in the law in Assisted Dying in the UK, and publicly raised the profile of the substantial minority of doctors who feel the same, as Secretary for Doctors for Assisted Suicide in Scotland. 

She has been the Clinical Director for the Lothian ENT department, Treasurer of ENT Scotland and has represented the East of Scotland on the ENTUK council. 

She is proud to live in Leith, having originated from the West!

Julie Lang was a physiotherapist for forty years, she returned to university in retirement to study English Literature and Medical Humanities.

Julie’s PhD thesis explores the role of memoir in end-of-life decision-making.

Charles Warlow is a retired professor of neurosurgery, living in Edinburgh, and a long-term supporter of assisted dying. 

Charles is considered by many to be one of the world's most influential neurologists through his pioneering research into stroke. His findings have transformed the medical response to stroke, and his research methodologies have been adopted world-wide.