Advisory Committee on Ethics

Rhonda Kropp (co-chair)
Associate Vice-President Research – Strategy, CIHR

Dr. Aliya Kassam (co-chair)
Associate Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary

Dr. Alice Virani
Director of the Clinical Ethics Service for the Provincial Health Service Authority of BC, Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical Genetics at the University of British Columbia

Dr. Ann M. Heesters
Senior Director of Clinical and Organizational Ethics at the University Health Network, Assistant Professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health

Dr. Cécile M. Bensimon
Ethics consultant for Environment and Climate Change Canada, Chair of the Research Ethics Board at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, and Vice-Chair of the Pharmaceutical Advertising Advisory Board

Dr. Charles Dupras
Assistant Professor and Director of the Bioethics Programs in the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine of the School of Public Health at the Université de Montréal

Dr. Daniel Buchman
Bioethicist and Scientist, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Associate Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto

Dr. Jaime Flamenbaum
CIHR Senior Ethics Advisor

Dr. Kristen Desjarlais-deKlerk
Associate Professor of Business and Administration at the University of Winnipeg

Dr. Elizabeth Ochola
Associate Researcher of Bioethics

Dr. Jean-Christophe Bélisle-Pipon
Health Ethics Assistant Professor at Simon Fraser University's Faculty of Health Sciences

Jeanna Pillainayagam
Master of Public Health student at McMaster University

Dr. Kristin Burnett
Faculty member in the Department of Indigenous Studies at Lakehead University

Dr. Samuel J Ujewe
Senior ethics advisor, CIHR, researcher and specialist in applied ethics and global population health