Background
Sokol, Daniel Kenji was born on August 6, 1978 in Puyricard, Bouches-du-Rhone, France. Son of Ronald Peter Sokol and Chun Dae Lee.
Sokol, Daniel Kenji was born on August 6, 1978 in Puyricard, Bouches-du-Rhone, France. Son of Ronald Peter Sokol and Chun Dae Lee.
Bachelor in Linguistics and French with honors, Oxford University, 2001. Master of Arts in Linguistics and French, Oxford University, 2001. Master of Science in Social and Economic History, Oxford University, 2002.
Master of Science in Medical Ethics, Imperial College, 2003.
He lectures nationally and internationally, and writes a regular column in the British Medical Journal under the sobriquet "Ethics Manitoba". Sokol was an honorary Senior Lecturer in Medical Ethics and Law at King"s College London, up until January 2014 when his contract was terminated due to Sokol setting up a legal firm that charged students for representation in exam appeals. He received his Bachelor (1st class) in 2001 and obtained a Wellcome Trust Award to study a Master"s in Social and Economic History (specializing in the History of Medicine) at Green College, Oxford.
He then studied for a Master"s in Medical Ethics at Imperial College London and, under the supervision of Professor Raanan Gillon and Doctor Tim Rhodes, completed a Doctor of Philosophy in the subject ("Truth-telling and benignly intended deception in the doctor-patient relationship: a philosophical and empirical analysis"), also funded by the Wellcome Trust.
Following his Doctor of Philosophy, he obtained a Lectureship in Ethics at Keele University. In 2008, he moved to Street George"s, University of London, before qualifying as a barrister at the Inner Temple in 2011.
In 2005, Sokol co-authored, with Doctor Gillian Bergson, an award-winning textbook on medical ethics and law for students. Since 2007, he has written a regular column ("Ethics Manitoba") for the British Medical Journal.
In 2012, Sokol published Doing Clinical Ethics (Springer), a textbook for clinicians.
In late 2012, Sokol founded Alpha Academic Appeals, whose aim is to help university students appeal unjust examination results. In 2013, he co-authored, with Isabel McArdle, Pupillage Inside Out (Sweet & Maxwell), a guide on the pupillage year (ie, the first year of a barrister"s practice). He has been a Visiting Scholar in Bioethics at Washington Hospital Center, Washington District of Columbia, and Providence Saint Vincent Medical Center, Oregon, and has sat on a number of committees, including those of the Ministry of Defence, the Ministry of Justice, and the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
He is the Senior Editor of the Postgraduate Medical Journal.
He is the son of Ronald P. Sokol and Junko Sokol.
Sokol has called for the introduction of professional clinical ethicists in British hospitals, argued that doctors have a strong but not absolute duty of care in times of virulent epidemics, and defended the moral permissibility of clinicians deceiving patients in rare circumstances.
He is a member of 12 King"s Bench Walk, a leading barristers" chambers in London, England.