Daryl Pullman, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Medical Ethics
Memorial University
Daryl Pullman is Associate Professor of Medical Ethics in the Faculty of Medicine at Memorial University where he teaches ethics and humanities to undergraduate and post-graduate medical students. He is cross-appointed to the School of Nursing and to the Department of Philosophy. In addition to his faculty appointments he has a clinical appointment with the Health Care Corp of the City of St. John's where he provides educational and consultation services as needed.
Daryl earned his MA and PhD degrees in philosophy at the University of Waterloo. After completing his graduate work he taught for 8 years at the University of Waterloo Centre for Society, Technology and Values. During that time he worked as a health care ethics consultant to a number of hospitals, nursing homes, and related organizations in South-Western Ontario.
Since coming to Memorial in 1998, Daryl has been centrally involved in a number of provincial initiatives related to health policy and health care ethics, including efforts to establish a Provincial Health Research Ethics Board. He is a member of the REB in the faculty of medicine at Memorial, and sits on the GELS committee of the CIHR Genetics Institute. He is a member of the Advisory Board for the CIHR Genetics Institute, and is a member of the CIHR Standing Committee on Ethics.
His current research interests include research ethics, ethics and ageing, and issues related to genetic research and therapy. He has a continuing philosophical interest in the concept of human dignity and its foundational role in moral epistemology.
Daryl has published numerous articles, book chapters, and abstracts in scholarly publications, and is a frequent contributor to public media on a variety of health related issues.
