Asunción Alvarez, PhD, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and Colegio de Bioetica AC and Wayne Sumner, PhD, FRSC, University Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto

Discussing Physician-Assisted Death: Finding Consensus and Agreeing to Differ.

No Webcast

Sally Bean, JD, MA, Ethicist and Policy Advisor, Sunnbrook Health Sciences Centre; University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics

Who Gets Access to Care? Exploring Obligations to Refugees and Uninsured Patients

To Be Recorded & Archived

Evelyne Durocher, OT Reg (Ont.), PhD Candidate, University of Toronto

Discharge Planning: Ideology against Policy?

To Be Recorded & Archived

Michelle Cleghorn, MSc, University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics, and Laena Maunula, PhD Candidate, Dalla Lana School of Public Health

Social Media and Cancer Control: Policy windfall or perfect storm?

Peter A. Newman, PhD, Professor, Canada Research Chair in Health & Social Justice, Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto

A Small Dose of HIV? Science, indigenous knowledge and HIV vaccine trials

James J. Rusthoven, MD, MHSc, PhD, FRCPC, FACP, Professor, Dept. of Oncology, McMaster University

Reflections on the Merits of a Covenantal Ethical Framework for Contemporary Biomedical Ethics

Timothy Caulfield, LLM, FRSC, FCAHS, Canada Research Chair in Health Law & Policy Health Senior Scholar, Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research, Professor, Faculty of Law and School of Public Health Research, Director, Health Law and Science Policy Group

32nd Annual Philippa Harris Lecture on Bioethical Issues in Cancer
Personalized Medicine: The Problem and the Promise

No Webcast

Eric Racine, Director, Neuroethics Research Unit, IRCM Adjunct Professor, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University

15th Annual Jus Lecture in honour of Dr. Andrzej Jus
Thinking About the Future of Ethics in Neuroscience and Mental Health: Observations and Questions from a Pragmatic Perspective

Diego S. Silva, Doctoral Candidate, Dalla Lana School of Public Health and Collaborative Program in Bioethics, University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics, and Maxwell J. Smith, Doctoral Student and CIHR Fellow in Public Health Policy, Dalla Lana School of Public Health and Joint Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto

Should Public Health Be Utilitarian? Theories, Limits and Applications

Alison Thompson, Assistant Professor, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto

The Ontario School-Based Human Papilloma Virus Vaccination Program: A Social Justice Perspective

POSTPONED UNTIL SPRING 2013 - James Orbinski, Director, Africa Initiative, Special Adviser to Vice President of Programs, and CIGI Chair in Global Health, The Centre for International Governance Innovation

The Ross Upshur Lecture
TBA

Daniel Barnett, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Special Guest Lecture
Health Provider Willingness to Respond in Public Health Emergencies: Ethical Considerations

Kevin Reel, Ethicist, Mackenzie Health and Southlake Regional Health Centre, and Sylvia Davidson, OT, Advanced Practice Leader, Geriatrics Program, Toronto Rehab, University Health Network

Approaching Sexual Expression in Dementia "Explissitly"

Chris MacDonald, PhD, Director, Jim Pattison Ethical Leadership Education and Research Program, Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University

Ethical Reasoning as Critical Thinking

Daniel Buchman, PhD Candidate, Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholar, Interdisciplinary Studies | University of British Columbia

Addiction, Trust, and Distrust in Chronic Pain Management: Patient Perspectives

Howard Hu, MD, MPH, ScD, Director and Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto

White Coats, Population Science and Poison Gas: Lessons from a Life Spent at the Intersection of Academic Medicine, Global Health and Human Rights

Bob Parke, Bioethicist, Humber River Regional Hospital, and Rosanna Macri, Ethicist, Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences

Hoarding the Clash between the Greater Good and Autonomy

NO SEMINAR - READING WEEK

 

Andrea Daly, MSW, PhD, Associate Professor, Interim Undergraduate Program Director, School of Social Work, York University, and Lori Ross, PhD, Research Scientist, Health Systems & Health Equity Research Group and Centre for Addiction & Mental Health and Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto

(W)righting Women: Social and Structural Context in a Review of Psychiatric Inpatient Charts

James Anderson, PhD, Academic Fellow in Clinical and Organizational Ethics, University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics

Ethical Reproducibility: Towards Transparent Reporting of Research Ethics Methods in Biomedical Research

Walter Cavalieri, MSc, MSW, Canadian Harm Reduction Network

The Professionalisation of Harm Reduction

Beamer Smith, Ontario Association of Patient Councils

One Man's View of Patient Councils in the Mental Health System

Linda Wright, MHSc, MSW, RSW, Director of Bioethics, University Health Network; Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery and Member, University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics, and Michael Campbell, MHSc, Senior Fellow in Organ Donation and Transplantation Ethics, University Health Network

Distributing Organs: What Does It Mean To Be Fair?

James Lavery, PhD, Research Scientist in the Keenan Research Centre of the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Hospital and Associate Professor, Dalla School of Public Health, University of Toronto and Janet Parsons, PhD, Staff Research Scientist, Applied Health Research Centre, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital and Asst. Professor, Dept. of Physical Therapy, University of Toronto

Brokered Dialogue as Deliberative Process in the Evaluation of the Ontario Citizen's Council

Charles Weijer, MD, PhD, Professor, Canada Research Chair in Bioethics, Rotman Institute of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario, and Merrick Zwarenstein (Commentator), Senior Scientist, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Studies

Ethical Issues in Cluster Randomized Trials in Health Research

Hong Lee, PhD, Academic Fellow in Clinical and Organizational Ethics, University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics

Advance Care Planning: Beyond the End of Life Paradigm

Christopher De Bono, PhD, Academic Fellow in Clinical and Organizational Ethics, University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics

Querying Moral Distress? Ethics in pursuit of reflective practice

Frank Wagner, Recipient of the Christine Harrison Bioethics Education Award for Integration of Theory and Practice, 2012; Bioethicist, Toronto Central Community Care Access Centre; Assistant Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto

From Theory to Practice: Teaching Everyday Bioethics

Solomon R. Benatar, Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Joint Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto and Emeritus Professor of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town

The Ross Upshur Lecture on Public Health Ethics
"Ethics and Health: From Personal to Public"

SEMINAR CANCELLED -
Kadia Petricca, MSc, Doctoral Candidate, Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto

Local Conceptualizations of Fairness and Legitimacy in Ethiopia: Reflecting on the Applicability of Accountability for Reasonableness