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CHANDLER, Jennifer A. »
Bertram Loeb Chair in Organ and Tissue Donation
Full professor
Faculty of Law
Common Law
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Office: 613-562-5800 (3286)
E-mail: chandler@uOttawa.ca
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The law and ethics of neuroscience, brain technologies and brain interventions, and mental health law. Areas of expertise include:
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Mental health law
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Health law
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Neuroethics
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Biomedical ethics
Recent work has addressed the regulation of new technologies, the judicial response to disputes involving new technologies, the theory of law and technology, and organ donation policies.
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COLLINS, Lynda »
Associate professor
Faculty of Law, Common Law Section
Common Law
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Office: 613-562-5800 (2913)
Cell: 613-612-8880
Home: 613-234-8886
E-mail: lcollins@uOttawa.ca
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Professor Collins is an expert in legal approaches to toxic substances, including environmental negligence, constitutional environmental rights under the Canadian Charter, and the international law of environmental human rights. Professor Collins has testified in public hearings at the House and Senate Standing environment committees and at the European Parliament, and has participated by invitation in a number of UN consultative processes concerning the right to a healthy environment and the right to water.
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ELTIS, Karen »
Full Professor
Full professor
Faculty of Law
Civil Law
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E-mail: karen.eltis@uOttawa.ca
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Privacy law, constitutional law (Charter), Internet law (new technologies, e-commerce, cybercrime), health law and bioethics, comparative law (U.S. and others), international arbitration.
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- Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
- Health law
- Human rights
- International law
- Internet law
- Medical law
- Privacy
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English and French , Hebrew, roumain, espagnol
FERRON PARAYRE, Audrey »
Assistant professor
Faculty of Law, Civil Law Section
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Office: 613-562-5800 poste 6023
Cell: 514-424-4864
E-mail: audrey.parayre@uottawa.ca
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Cell Telephone
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Français seulement
GIROUX, Michelle »
Full professor
Faculty of Law
Civil Law
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Office: 613-562-5800 (3243)
E-mail: michelle.giroux@uOttawa.ca
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Office Telephone
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Droit des personnes et de la famille plus particulièrement en ce qui a trait à la garde des enfants et aux nouvelles technologies de la reproduction. Droit médical, plus spécifiquement la bioéthique.
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GRUBEN, Vanessa »
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Assistant professor
Faculty of Law, Common Law Section
Common Law
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Office: 613-562-5800 (3089)
E-mail: vgruben@uOttawa.ca
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Office Telephone
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My main fields of research include issues related to health law, assisted human reproduction and family law.
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NICKERSON, Jason »
Adjunct Professor
Faculty of Law, Common Law Section
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E-mail: Jason.Nickerson@uOttawa.ca
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Dr. Jason Nickerson, RRT, PhD is the Humanitarian Representative to Canada for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), based in Ottawa. Jason is appointed as a Clinical Scientist at the Bruyère Research Institute in Ottawa and as an Adjunct Professor of Common Law at the University of Ottawa’s Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics. He leads MSF’s humanitarian diplomacy in Canada and provides advice on humanitarian operations, medical advocacy and policy, and access to medicines to MSF’s operations in more than 70 countries affected by crises. Jason has over 10 years’ clinical experience as a respiratory therapist working in adult critical care and anesthesia and has worked extensively in global public health response in Canada and internationally during armed conflicts, disease epidemics, and sudden onset disasters. Jason is a graduate of Dalhousie University’s Bachelor of Health Sciences in Respiratory Therapy program, specializing in anesthesia. Following this, he completed a master’s degree at the University of British Columbia studying the education of health professionals who provide community-based HIV care, and a PhD in population health at the University of Ottawa where he focused on the methodologies for conducting assessments of severely disrupted health systems during acute and protracted emergencies. His research has been published in high-impact medical journals including The Lancet, the Canadian Medical Association Journal, PLOS Medicine, and Health Policy and Planning, among others. He has appeared as a witness before the Canadian Parliament’s Standing Committees on Health, Finance, and International Trade and published opinion pieces in The Star, iPolitics, and The Conversation, and has been widely quoted in international news outlets on a variety of global health and health policy issues including COVID-19, access to pain medicines for safe anesthesia and palliative care, access to affordable medicines, science policy, and humanitarian assistance in natural disasters, armed conflicts, refugee crises, and disease epidemics such as Ebola.Area(s) of expertise:
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- Anesthesia
- Biopharmaceutical science
- Biopharmaceutics
- Diseases
- Drugs
- Ethics
- Ethics in international affairs
- Ethics in international affairs
- Foreign aid
- Foreign aid
- Foreign Policy
- Globalization
- Haiti
- Health
- Health care
- Health policy
- Health research
- Health Services
- Health-service providers
- Infectious Diseases
- Intellectual property
- International development and globalization
- International health
- International humanitarian law
- International organizations
- Medical law
- Medical research
- Population health
- Respiratory medicine
- Science and Society
- Sustainable development
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