Committees and Working Groups

Standing Committee on Ethics

The Standing Committee on Ethics identifies for the Governing Council emerging ethical issues of strategic relevance with respect to health and health research. It provides the Governing Council with high-level strategic advice on the ethical, legal and socio-cultural dimensions of CIHR's mandate as set out in The CIHR Act, at its initiative or at the request of the Governing Council or the President.

SCE Members:

	Dr. Harvey Max Chochinov (Chair) Canada Research Chair in Palliative Care Professor of Psychiatry University of Manitoba and CancerCare Manitoba
	Dr. Alan Bernstein (Ex-Officio) President Canadian Institutes of Health Research
	Dr. David Cook Vice President, Research and Development LEO Pharma Inc.
	Arthur W. Frank Professor, Department of Sociology University of Calgary
	Dr. Bernard Keating Professor, Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies Université Laval
	Ms. Carrielynn Lamouche Director Aboriginal Healing Foundation
	Dr. Michael McDonald Director, Centre for Applied Ethics, University of British Columbia

	Jeffrey Nisker Professor of Obstetrics-Gynaecology University of Western Ontario
	Daryl Pullman Associate Professor of Medical Ethics Memorial University
	Susan Sherwin Munro Chair in Philosophy Dalhousie University
	Dr. Rosalie Starzomski Associate Professor, School of Nursing University of Victoria
	Ms. Susan Zimmerman A lawyer specializing in health law and policy and bioethics

Created: 2003-04-11
Modified: 2006-11-27
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