Formal Education
| 2012- | PhD Candidate (Health Policy) McMaster University (Dept of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics) Dissertation Title: Bioethical analysis and scholarship in the health technology assessment of assisted reproductive technologies: coherence and disjunction Supervisor: Professor Lisa Schwartz |
| 2003 | Master of Health Science (Bioethics) University of Toronto (Institute for Medical Science) |
| 2001 | Certificate in Advanced Mediation York University (Osgoode Hall), Toronto |
| 1991 | Bachelor of Arts (Honours) University of Toronto |
Employment History
| 2002-present | Ethics and Health Policy Consultant Consultation: Provide clinical, research, and organizational ethics guidance and decision support to patients, clinicians, patients, and organizations across North America (clients included: Canadian Medical Association, The Fertility Partners, Trio Fertility, One Fertility, Spectrum Health, California Cryobank); Policy: develop policy instruments for institutions, associations, and governments; recent examples include: Health Equity Framework and Decision Tool, e-health governance statement (Canadian Medical Association); Ontario Decision Framework (Ontario Ministry of Health); Mosaic Screening and Selection Policy (Trio Fertility – Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society); Program development: implementation team for Ontario’s fetal RhD genotyping program (Fetal RhD Genotyping Task Force); developed ethics programs for clients that include: Credit Valley, Southlake, and York Central hospitals; Mississauga and South East Local Health Integration Networks; The Fertility Partners, Trio Fertility and The Reproductive Care Centre. Health Technology Assessment: Member, Ontario Genetics Advisory Committee of the Ontario Health Technology Advisory Committee (OHTAC), Ontario Health; Co-writer systematic reviews and qualitative metasyntheses for OHTAC; Co-developer Ontario Decision Framework for OHTAC; Protocol reviewer Public Health Agency of Canada (Screening for Fetal Aneuploidy) |
| 2009-2010 | Director, Ethics Centre Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, and University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics Accountabilities: Led team of clinical ethicists at Canada’s largest single-site hospital ethics program; conducted complex ethics and organizational consultations in all hospital programs. |
| 2004-2009 | Director, Regional Bioethics Service Trillium Health Partners, Mississauga and Toronto, and University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics Accountabilities: Co-developed and led Ethics Program at Trillium Health Centre, and developed and led the Regional Bioethics Service in the Mississauga-Halton Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) to provide bioethics services and resources through a flexible and affordable funding structure to all health and community service providers in the LHIN, including hospitals and historically underserviced areas (e.g., community agencies, public health, long-term care centres). |
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