NUALA KENNY

Nuala Kenny is internationally recognized as a medical educator and lecturer on fundamental ethics questions in health care and policy. After an extensive career in pediatrics and medical education Dr. Kenny founded the Department of Bioethics at Dalhousie in 1996 and now devotes herself to bioethics full-time. She was a founding member of the National Council for Bioethics in Human Research and has served on the Tri-Council Working Group on Revision of Guidelines for Research with Human Subjects and the National Science Advisory Board. She was Chair of the Values Committee of the Prime Minister’s National Forum on Health and was a founding member of the Governing Council of CIHR. Dr. Kenny has received Honorary Doctorates from Mount Saint Vincent (1992), the Atlantic School of Theology (2000), Regis College, Toronto School of Theology (2000) and St. Francis Xavier University (2000). In 1999, she was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada.