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The CAHS Scientific Lecture

Jocelyn Downie

Assisted Dying in Canada: Past, Present and Future

16 Sept 2016
Hotel Omni, Mont-Royal
Montréal QC

taken from CAHS announcement

Each year the Academy selects a Fellow, to give a presentation of their research activity and the state of their field of research. The intent is to feature the outstanding qualities of our Fellows and inform a diverse audience of the current state of the art in the given field of investigation.  Fundamental characteristics sought in these Fellows include a track record of internationally recognized success and authority; a topic which ensures interest from the broad spectrum of CAHS Fellows across the health sciences; and the capacity to provide perspective on a field of research/scholarship.

A call for nominations is release annually to the Fellows. Recipients are recommended by the Governance and Nominating Committee and approved by the Board.

JOCELYN DOWNIE M.A., M.LITT.,L.L.B, L.L.M., S.J.D.

Jocelyn Downie is an internationally recognized expert in the intersecting areas of health, law, policy, and ethics. Of particular relevance to the CAHS Scientific Lecture, she served as the Special Consultant to the Senate Committee on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, published Dying Justice: A Case for the Decriminalization of Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide (which won the Abbyann D. Lynch Medal in Bioethics from the Royal Society of Canada), and was a member of the Royal Society of Canada Expert Panel on End of Life Decision-Making, the legal team in Carter v. Canada, and the Provincial-Territorial Expert Advisory Group on Physician-Assisted Dying.