The Dossetor Centre reaches out to scholars, students, health-care practitioners, clinical ethics committee members, health-care administrators, patients and their families, media and the general public through:

  • Health Ethics Seminar Series
  • Health Ethics Symposium
  • Health Ethics Workshops
  • Grand Rounds
  • Health Ethics Today, a newsletter published two to three times per year with a local, provincial, national, and international distribution list, including all medical doctors across ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥
  • Media contacts to discuss health ethics topics in the news

Conducting research on a broad spectrum of ethical, moral and human-rights issues, including:

  • clinical practice
  • compassion
  • disability ethics
  • human rights
  • mental health
  • moral distress
  • health policy
  • gender issues
  • public health
  • relational ethics
  • neonatology-perinatology
  • professionalism
  • phenomenology

Teaching health ethics to students of all levels across many faculties at the ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥. Education opportunities include:

  • INT D 570: Healthcare Ethics
  • INT D 670: Research Ethics
  • Medical Sub-Specialty Ethics Teaching
  • Undergraduate Medical Student Elective, An Experience in Bioethics

Health Ethics News

  • Gillian Lemermeyer project co-leader with UofA's AI + Health Hub

    May 20, 2025

    The ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ College of Health Sciences is launching an AI + Health Hub to harness the power of data and computing science to solve a wide range of health-care challenges from quicker diagnoses to streamlining hospital queues and discovering new drugs.

  • May 15, 2025

    The ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ Court of Justice has welcomed Tracey Bailey, Sheri Epp, Karen McGowan, Alicia Wendel, and Colin Wetter as new justices in Edmonton and Calgary. Tracey Bailey will sit in the Edmonton Family and Youth Division beginning June 23. She was a partner at Miller Thomson, LLP and worked with ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥â€™s Ministry of Justice and Solicitor General. Tracey is also a core faculty member with the John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre. Congratulations Tracey!

  • May 12, 2025

    Just published this noteworthy and informative commentary by Dossetor Centre faculty members, Brendan Leier and Cheryl Mack, on Canada's Medical Assistance in Dying.

  • March 17, 2025

    The Institute of International Peace Leaders (IIPL) is honored to announce that Catherine Mardon, Dossetor Centre adjunct member, distinguished author, human rights advocate, and disability activist, has been selected as the recipient of the prestigious IIPL Peace Award. This recognition is in acknowledgment of Catherine's extraordinary contributions to justice, human rights, disability advocacy, and global peace efforts. Congratulations Catherine!

  • March 4, 2025

    Austin Mardon and Eric Hodgson discuss the benefits of Community Treatment Orders which can help to foster a society that embraces recovery and champions the well-being of individuals living with mental-health challenges.

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