BIOETHICS - Key Persons


Abraham Rudnick

Job Titles:
  • Department of Psychiatry, Department of Bioethics, School of Occupational Therapy
  • Professor

Adrienne McCarthy

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant

Alyssa Frost

Job Titles:
  • Human Resources Advisor

Amanda Porter

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor and Health Care Ethicist

Anila Balakrishnan


Anne Weeden

Job Titles:
  • Director of Special Projects

Ariann Greenidge

Job Titles:
  • Operations Manager

Barry Clarke

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Halifax Site Research Team

Beatrice Hunter

Job Titles:
  • Senior Scientist

Benjamin J. Capps

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Cathrine Yuill

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director, Advancement

Chris Newell

Job Titles:
  • Director, Reporting & Analytics

Chris Yeats

Job Titles:
  • Manager, Accrediation & Special Projects

Christy Simpson

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor / Coordinator, Ethics Collaborations

Conrad Fernandez

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the International Children 's Oncology Group Renal Tumors Steering Committee
  • Professor, Pediatrics ( Cross - Appointed to Bioethics )
Dr. Fernandez chair of the international Children's Oncology Group Renal Tumors Steering Committee and conducts clinical trials in childhood kidney cancer. He also has an active research program in returning research results to participants.

Courtney Dillman - CHRO

Job Titles:
  • Director, Human Resources

Debi Follett

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant

Dipan Shah

Job Titles:
  • Analyst
  • Finance

Dorothy Edem

Job Titles:
  • Director, Central Zone Mental Health and Addictions Program

Dr. Aaron Keshen

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Head

Dr. Aaron Newman

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Psychology

Dr. Alessio Squassina

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Dr. Alexa Bagnell

Job Titles:
  • Division Head, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Dr. Alissa Pencer

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Psychology

Dr. Andrea Murphy

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Department of Psychiatry, College of Pharmacy, School of Nursing

Dr. Angela Cooper

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Department of Family Medicine, Department of Psychiatry
  • Professor

Dr. Brad MacNeil

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Dr. Christine Chambers

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Dr. Claude Botha

Job Titles:
  • Interim Clinical Academic Department Head

Dr. Darrell White

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate Dean, Education

Dr. David Anderson

Job Titles:
  • Dean of Medicine

Dr. David Martell

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Dr. Derek Fisher

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Dr. Elyse Ross

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Department of Psychiatry

Dr. Emily Gard Marshall

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Halifax Site Research Team
  • Department of Family Medicine, Department of Psychiatry
  • Halifax Site Research Team
  • Marshall
  • Professor

Dr. Harold Robertson

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Department of Pharmacology, Department of Psychiatry
  • Professor Emeritus

Dr. Ian Weaver

Job Titles:
  • Psychology

Dr. Jeff Kirby

Job Titles:
  • Retired Professor

Dr. Jenna Whitney

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Dr. Jennifer Khoury

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Dr. Joanne Gusella

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Dr. Katie Lines

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Dr. Kazue Semba

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Professor

Dr. Lara Hazelton

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Head
  • Director

Dr. Leslie Anne Campbell

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Dr. Lynette Reid

Job Titles:
  • Coordinator, Ethics Education
  • Coordinator, Ethics Education / Associate Professor
  • Education

Dr. Mahmoud Awara

Job Titles:
  • Head

Dr. Mark Bosma

Job Titles:
  • Head

Dr. Mary Lynch

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Department of Anesthesia, Pain Management & Perioperative Medicine, Department of Pharmacology, Department of Psychiatry
  • Professor

Dr. Michael Vallis

Job Titles:
  • Psychology

Dr. Nader Perroud

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Dr. Naila Ramji

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

Dr. Natalie Rosen

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus
  • Psychology

Dr. Penny Corkum

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Psychology

Dr. Phil Tibbo

Job Titles:
  • Director of Research

Dr. Raquel Dias


Dr. Risk Kronfli


Dr. Ron Fraser

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Dr. Sabina Abidi

Job Titles:
  • Associate Head, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Dr. Sanjana Sridharan

Job Titles:
  • Head

Dr. Sean Barrett

Job Titles:
  • Psychology

Dr. Shannon Johnson

Job Titles:
  • Psychology / Assistant Professor

Dr. Simon Sherry

Job Titles:
  • Psychology / Assistant Professor

Dr. Steve Kisely

Job Titles:
  • Professor
  • Public Health Physician and Psychiatrist
Steve Kisely is a public health physician and psychiatrist with health services research experience in the UK, Australia & Canada. After graduating from the University of Bristol, he worked in New Zealand in various medical and surgical specialties, before starting psychiatric training in Auckland. He finished his psychiatric training in Western Australia & Manchester, including a Masters degree by research on atypical chest pain. While working as a lecturer in psychiatry he completed a research Doctorate on the effect of physical disorder on psychiatric outcome in primary care. Professor Kisely worked at the Universities of Western Australia and Dalhousie University in Canada before returning to Australia in 2007.

Dr. Susan Gamberg


Dr. Vincent Agyapong

Job Titles:
  • Head and Clinical Chief

Elizabeth May

Job Titles:
  • Chairman in Women 's Health and the Environment, Dalhousie University ( 2001 - 2003 )

Fiona McDonald

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor / Co - Director, Australian Centre for Health Law Reseach

Fred Burge

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Halifax Site Research Team
  • Retired

Helena Piccinini

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Halifax Site Research Team

Iris Greenblatt

Job Titles:
  • Human Resources Advisor

Janet Bardon - COO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Operating Officer

Jennifer Brown

Job Titles:
  • Physician
  • Resource Manager

Jennifer Cunningham


Jillian Slevin

Job Titles:
  • Operations & Policy Manager

Joan Sweet

Job Titles:
  • Education and Research Coordinator

Karen McNeil

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Halifax Site Research Team

Kate Rogers

Job Titles:
  • Advisor, Communications

Lilian Robinson

Job Titles:
  • Visiting Scholar, Concordia University, Winter 2017

Linda Ford

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant to Department Head

Linda Penny - COO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Operating Officer

Lindy Isner

Job Titles:
  • Assistant, Communications

Lisbeth Witthøfft Nielsen

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer, Department

Lori Lawson

Job Titles:
  • Administrator

Mandy Esliger

Job Titles:
  • Acting Education Coordinator

Marika Warren

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Marshall EG

Lavergne MR, Scott I, Mitra G, Snadden D, Blackie D, Goldsmith LJ, Rudoler D, Hedden L, Grudniewicz A, Ahuja M, Marshall EG. (2019). Regional differences in where and how family medicine residents intend to practice: A cross-sectional survey analysis. CMAJ Open, February 2019; Vol. 7, No. 1: E124-E130, February 2019. http://cmajopen.ca/content/7/1/E124. Marshall EG, Burge F, Able H, Lawson B, Chisholm J, Harvie B, Gibson R. Do provider and practice characteristics predict availability of and access to primary care? Findings from the MAAP-NS: Models and Access Atlas to Primary Care Providers in Nova Scotia Study. North American Primary Care Research Group Conference, Cancun, Mexico, October 27, 2015. [oral] Marshall EG, Lawson B, Burge F, Gibson R, Chisholm J, Varatharasan N. Do socioeconomic status or having a chronic condition affect whether family physicians accept a new patient? NAPCRG, New York City, NY, November 24, 2014. [oral] Purcell C, Bowles S, Marshall EG, Andrew MK, Varatharasan N, Clarke B, Natarajan N. Polypharmacy rates decreased in elderly long term care residents in association with implementation of the Care by Design program. 15th Annual College of Pharmacy Research Event, Halifax, NS, November 9, 2014. [poster]

Mary McNally

Job Titles:
  • Retired

Mathew Grandy

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Halifax Site Research Team

Matthew White


Maureen Brennan

Job Titles:
  • Director, IWK Mental Health and Addictions Program

Megan Dixon

Job Titles:
  • Operations & Policy Manager

Megan Lee

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant

Melanie Drown

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant

Melissa Davis

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant

Michal Smith

Job Titles:
  • Research Award, Schizophrenia Society of Canada, 2015

Michelle LeBlanc

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Manager

Mr. Archie Kaiser

Job Titles:
  • Law

Mr. Jason Bremner - CCO

Job Titles:
  • Director, Communications

Murray L. Barr

Job Titles:
  • Junior Scientist Award, Canadian Association of Anatomists, 1992

Nan Assapimonwait

Job Titles:
  • Human Resources Coordinator

Neha Singh

Job Titles:
  • Communications Coordinator

Parisa Abdi Sabouhi


Paul Bourgeois

Job Titles:
  • Building Services Manager

Penney Miller

Job Titles:
  • Finance Assistant

Petra Corkum

Job Titles:
  • Research Coordinator

Robin Stinson

Job Titles:
  • Receptionist / Booking and Registration Clerk

Ruth Lavergne

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Halifax Site Research Team

Sandra Millar

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant

Shane LeBlanc

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director, Operations ( Acting )

Sharon Batt

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

Tamatha Campbell

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Secretary
  • Administration

Timothy Holland

Job Titles:
  • Department Head, and Assistant Professor

Ting Qian - CFO

Job Titles:
  • Analyst
  • Director, Finance
  • Finance

Tyler Creelman

Job Titles:
  • Postgraduate Education Coordinator