Staff

Department Head

Simpson, C.

Professor Emeritus

Kenny, N. P., OC, BA (MSVU), MD (Dalhousie), FRCPC, LLD (Hon) (MSVU), LL.Div. (Hon) (Atlantic School of Theology), S.Litt.D. (Hon) (Regis College, Toronto School of Theology), LLD (Hon) (St. FX). Interests: physician ethics, ethics and health policy, and pediatric ethics.

Professors

Fernandez, C., Hon BSc (UWO), MD (McMaster), FRCPC. Professor and Head of pediatric hematology/oncology, Department of Pediatrics at the IWK Health Centre and Dalhousie University with a cross-appointment in the Department of Bioethics. Interests: pediatric research ethics including return of research results to research participants, Wilms tumor, and principal investigator Children’s Oncology Groups.
Kirby, J., MD, MA (Phil) (Dalhousie). Interests: ethics analysis of complex healthcare practices, ethics dimensions of medical assistance in dying, social justice and accountability in healthcare policy and practice, critical care ethics, use of deliberative engagement methodologies to enhance collaborative decision-making, organ donation and transplantation ethics, social accountability in medical education.
McNally, M., BSc (MSVU), MSc, DDS, MA (Dalhousie). Professor, Faculty of Denistry, with a cross-appointment in the Department of Bioethics. Interests: caring for elders, oral health promotion and policy, and health care ethics focusing on social justice and access to care for vulnerable populations.

Associate Professors

Capps, B., BSc (Cardiff Univ, UK), MA (Univ Sheffield, UK), PhD (Univ Bristol, UK). Interests: The ethics of One Health, public health and infectious diseases; stem cell science and ethics; neuroethics; and jurisprudential and political theory.
Reid, L., BA (Winnipeg), AM and PhD (Illinois). Interests: normative questions in universal health coverage; preferential access (ethical wait list management, ethical advocacy, "queue-jumping", professional courtesy); cancer screening (ethical issues as well as questions in philosophy of medicine and philosophy of technology); ethics in health technology assessment.
Simpson, C., BA&Sc, MA (McMaster), PhD (Dalhousie). Interests: The role of hope in health care, ethics education and capacity building, rural health care ethics and organizational ethics.

Assistant Professor

Holland, T. BSc (Acadia), MD (Dalhousie). Chair, Committee on Ethics, Canadian Medical Association; Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine with a cross-appointment to Department of Bioethics. Interests: Medical Assistance in Dying, Refugee Health, Aboriginal Health.
Warren, M. D., BA (Univ of Alberta), PhD (Toronto). Interests: equity and justice in health care, organizational and policy ethics, public health ethics, ethics consultation, disability rights, developing innovative approaches to ethics education, and translating ethical commitments into practice.

Adjunct Professors

Batt, S., BA (Carleton), MA (UBC), PhD (Dalhousie)
McDonald, F., LLB, BA (Univ of Wellington, NZ), LLM, JSD (Dalhousie)

Lecturer

Witthoefft Nielsen, L., MA (Copenhagen), PhD (c) (Aarhus Univ, Denmark)