Melissa McCradden, PhD, MHSc
Assistant Professor
Position: John and Melinda Thompson Director of AI in Medicine (Integration lead)
Bioethicist, The Hospital for Sick Children
Associate Scientist, Genetics & Genome Biology (SickKids)
SGS Status: Assistant Professor (Status Only)
Primary Graduate Appointment: Division of Clinical & Public Health
Graduate Appointment(s): Dalla Lana School of Public Health
Program: Master of Health Science in Bioethics
Primary Teaching Responsibilities: CHL3003Y – Empirical Approaches in Bioethics
Research Interests
- Peadiatric bioethics
- Machine Learning
- Neurotechnologies and robotics
- Racial justice and algorithmic bias
- Research ethics
Current Research Projects
- Social licence in pediatric health data research and artificial intelligence
- Responsible evaluation and validation of machine learning systems for patient care
- Relational ethics in good clinical decision-making using algorithms in pediatrics
- Augmenting equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) and institutional accountability when using healthcare algorithms
Education & Training History
- Bioethicist at The Hospital for Sick Children since October 2019
- Clinical & Research Fellow, Ethics of Healthcare AI – The Hospital for Sick Children and Vector Institute
- Postdoctoral Fellow – St. Michael’s Hospital, Injury Prevention Research Office, Dept of Neurosurgery
- Master’s of Health Science – Bioethics, University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics
- PhD – Neuroscience, McMaster University
Honours & Awards
- 2022 List of 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics
- 2019 Canadian Bioethics Conference – Judges’ Choice Poster Award
- 2019 Joint Centre for Bioethics Research Day – Best Student Poster Award
Other Affiliations
- Temerity Centre for AI Research & Education in Medicine, University of Toronto
- Society for Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI)