Join us to learn more about our Master of Health Science (MHSc) in Bioethics program at the University of Toronto. What is bioethics? Bioethics is concerned with finding practical answers to difficult value-based questions faced by patients and families, health professionals, health researchers, health administrators and health policymakers. The aim of the field of bioethics […]
Speaker: Vivian Tam, MD, MSc, CCFP(EM) candidate, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Ottawa About this Seminar: In March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic necessitated the introduction of visitor restrictions to acute care hospitals in Ontario, Canada, which remain in evolution as we navigate successive phases of the pandemic. In response, the Toronto Region COVID-19 Hospital […]
Speaker: Jordan Joseph Wadden, MA, Bioethicist, Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences, PhD Candidate, Department of Philosophy, University of British Columbia About this Seminar: Some have suggested that the introduction of more and more advanced artificial intelligence (AI) to healthcare settings will run the risk of jeopardizing patient informed consent. However, these claims are […]
Speakers: Jennifer A.H. Bell, Department of Bioethics and Supportive Care Research Division, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, The Institute for Education Research (TIER), University Health Network, Department of Psychiatry and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto Seth Climans, Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Department of Oncology, Western University […]
Speaker: Nicholas Leyland, BASc, MD, MHCM, FRCSC, Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Fellowship Director, Advanced Pelvic, Obstetrical and Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery, McMaster University Seminar Objectives: Understand the elements of medical negligence. Medical errors, negligence, and litigation . Informed consent: What does this entail? Examples from completed Canadian Medical Protective Association […]
Speakers: Rosalind Abdool, PhD, (she/her), Ethicist, Regional Ethics Program, Trillium Health Partners (THP), Alternate Vice Chair, THP Research Ethics Board, Adjunct Lecturer, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto Eoin Connolly, MA, Ethicist, Regional Ethics Program, Trillium Health Partners (THP), Adjunct Lecturer, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto About this […]
Full Title: Bioethics for the Anthropocene Speaker: Andrew Jameton, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Department of Health Promotion, University of Nebraska Medical Center Abstract Global change is increasingly forcing environmental and health care ethics to face each other. This meeting of disciplines is likely to clash with tragic results and to disappoint many, while at the same time it is […]
This was the first in our series of Conversations in Canadian Bioethics, featuring Dr. James Dwyer (Upstate Medical University), and Dr. Cristina Richie (Delft University of Technology) in a session moderated by Dr. Vardit Ravitsky (Université de Montréal).
The second event in our series of Conversations in Canadian Bioethics, with the Nova Scotia Health Ethics Network (NSHEN) as our spotlight organization. Featured presenters were Mona Gupta (Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal - CHUM) and Kathleen Lowenstein (Department of Philosophy, Michigan State University), with moderator Éric Racine (Pragmatics Health Ethics Research Unit, Institut […]
Third in our series of Conversations in Canadian Bioethics, featuring the École de santé publique de l’Université de Montréal (ESPUM) as our spotlight organization. Featured presenter was Joseph Stramondo (San Diego State University), who joined moderator Dr. Christy Simpson (Dalhousie University).