Advisory Committee on Ethics

The mandate of the CIHR external Advisory Committee on Ethics (ACE) is to provide the Vice-President, Research – Learning Health Systems (VPR-LHS) with guidance to support CIHR’s commitment to ethics in health research and health research ethics.

Terms of Reference

Members

Rhonda Kropp (co-chair)
Associate Vice-President Research – Strategy, CIHR

Dr. Aliya Kassam (co-chair)
Associate Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary

Dr. Alice Virani
Director of the Clinical Ethics Service for the Provincial Health Service Authority of BC, Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical Genetics at the University of British Columbia

Dr. Ann M. Heesters
Senior Director of Clinical and Organizational Ethics at the University Health Network, Assistant Professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health

Dr. Cécile M. Bensimon
Ethics consultant for Environment and Climate Change Canada, Chair of the Research Ethics Board at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, and Vice-Chair of the Pharmaceutical Advertising Advisory Board

Dr. Charles Dupras
Assistant Professor and Director of the Bioethics Programs in the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine of the School of Public Health at the Université de Montréal

Dr. Daniel Buchman
Bioethicist and Scientist, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Associate Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto

Dr. Jaime Flamenbaum
CIHR Senior Ethics Advisor

Dr. Kristen Desjarlais-deKlerk
Assistant Professor of sociology in the department of L’nu, Political, and Social Studies at Cape Breton University