Speakers & Mentors

	Alister Browne is a Clinical Professor and Ethics Theme Director in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia. He is a member of the ethics committees of Vancouver Hospital, GF Strong and Geo Person Centres, British Columbia Children’s Hospital, Sunny Hill Hospital, and Burnaby Hospital. Dr. Browne is recently retired as the Chair of the Philosophy Department at Langara College in Vancouver, and Ethics Consultant and Chair of the Ethics Committee at Vancouver Hospital.
	Nancy Neveloff Dubler is Consultant for Bioethics at the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation and Senior Associate at the Montefiore-Einstein Bioethics Center. She is Professor Emerita at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Adjunct Professor at Cardozo Law School. Nancy received her B.A. from Barnard College and her LL.B. from the Harvard Law School. Her most recent books is Bioethics Mediation: A Guide to Shaping Shared Solutions (Vanderbilt University Press, 2011), co-authored with Carol Liebman.
	Stuart Finder is the Director of the Center for Healthcare Ethics at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He holds academic appointments at the University of California, Los Angeles - School of Medicine and the American University of Judaism. As a clinician, a teacher, and a researcher, he is interested in exploring the complexity and implications of moral experiences as actualized in health care contexts. This includes the entire spectrum of the health care arena, from patient care to clinical and basic sciences research.
	Andrea Frolic is Clinical & Organizational Ethicist at Hamilton Health Sciences. She completed her Ph.D. in Anthropology at Rice University in Houston, Texas and a two-year fellowship in Clinical Ethics at the University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center. She received her M.A. in Religion & Culture at Wilfrid Laurier University and her B.A. in Religious Studies at Queen’s University. Andrea’s research interests focus on ethics consultation, end-of-life care and professional ethics.
	Jon Gilchrist is the Clinical Ethics Leader for Covenant Health, a faith-based health care provider in Alberta. In this role, he supports the ethics programming - including clinical and organizational ethics consultation, education and policy development - across Covenant Health’s 17 facilities. Jon studied theology and bioethics at Regent College in Vancouver, where he earned his Master’s Degree. His current study interest focuses on the role and use of story-telling in ethics consultation.
	Gary Goldsand is a Clinical Ethicist at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Edmonton and an Assistant Clinical Professor in the University of Alberta’s Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry. He has been a hospital ethicist for 11 years, gaining a wealth of consultation experience in a wide range of clinical areas. Gary's interests include advance care planning, artificial nutrition and hydration, medical decision-making, and the role of religion and culture in clinical ethics. He has a Master’s degree in Religious Studies from the University of Calgary.
	Bashir Jiwani is the Director of Fraser Health Ethics Services in British Columbia. Previously, Bashir served as Ethicist and Leader of the Ethics Network for Providence Health Care in Vancouver and Northern Alberta Coordinator at the Provincial Health Ethics Network. He a Master’s degree in Applied Ethics, specializing in Bioethics, from the University of British Columbia and a PhD from the University of Alberta’s Public Health Sciences Department.
	David Kuhl is the Director of the Centre for Practitioner Renewal and an Associate Professor for the Department of Family Practice, Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia. He has a Masters in Health Sciences (Community Health and Epidemiology) from the University of Toronto and a medical degree from McMaster University. Dr. Kuhl has written two books – What Dying People Want: Practical Wisdom for the End-of-Life and Facing Death Embracing Life: Understanding What Dying People Want.
	Brendan Leier is Clinical Ethicist at the University of Alberta and Stollery Children’s Hospitals & Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute, and Clinical Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Alberta. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Alberta. Brendan's current research focuses on the role of compassionate care in medicine, the communication of risk, and care at the end of life.
	Connie Mahoney is a Clinical Ethicist in Alberta Health Services' Calgary Zone and a doctoral candidate in the Department of Religious Studies, University of Calgary. She chairs the AHS Calgary Zone Addictions and Mental Health Ethics Committee and is a co-chair of the Homecare Ethics Committee. Connie also co-chairs a Public Health Nurses Ethics Working Group and provides ethics consultation services to the Peter Lougheed Hospital, continuing care facilities, and various community programs in the Calgary area.
	Jonathan Moreno is Professor of Ethics and Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. He is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine/National Academy of Sciences, a National Associate of the National Research Council, and has served as a senior staff member for three presidential advisory commissions Among Moreno’s books are Deciding Together: Bioethics and Moral Consensus, Ethics in Clinical Practice, and Arguing Euthanasia.
	Susan Rubin is a clinical ethicist and co-founder of The Ethics Practice, a firm devoted to providing bioethics education, research, and clinical consultation on a national basis. For over the past twenty years, she has served as a consulting ethicist in a variety of acute, long term, and out-patient care settings, helping to set up, train, and support the ongoing work of ethics committees and providing ongoing educational and consultation support for health care professionals, institutions, and organizations.
	Victoria Seavilleklein is a Clinical Ethicist in Alberta Health Services’ Central Zone. Prior to working with AHS, she was Ethicist & Policy Director with the Provincial Health Ethics Network. She holds a PhD. in Philosophy, specializing in Bioethics, from Dalhousie University, an M.A. in Philosophy (Ethics) from the University of Calgary, and a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Victoria. Victoria’s areas of research include prenatal and newborn screening, artificial reproductive technologies, health policy, and social justice.
	Randi Zlotnik Shaul is a Bioethicist at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. She is also an Assistant Professor in the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Toronto, has an appointment in the U of T Department of Surgery and is a member of the U of T Joint Centre for Bioethics. Randi has a degree in political science from McGill University, a law degree from Osgoode Hall, and both a Master of Laws degree and a Ph.D. in bioethics from the University of Toronto.
	Colleen Torgunrud is a Clinical Ethicist in Alberta Health Services' Edmonton Zone. She has worked in the provincial health system for over 20 years, previously as a registered social worker and in quality improvement and patient safety. Colleen holds Bachelors degrees in Sociology and Psychology from the University of Alberta and in Social Work from the University of Calgary, as well as an MA in Medical Ethics (Palliative Care and Cancer Care) from the University of Keele, Staffordshire, UK.
	Anna Zadunayski is a Calgary-based ethicist, lawyer, and writer. She is currently the Clinical Ethicist at the Alberta Children's Hospital and Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary. Anna has a particular interest in perinatal and maternal-child ethics; specifically, her current research interests include informed consent in medical decision-making and maternal and child health.