Chair, Research Ethics Board, CHEO | Director, Ethics and Professional Affairs, Canadian Medical Association
CHEO | Canadian Medical Association
Cécile Bensimon is Director of Ethics and Professional Affairs at the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) and Chair of the Research Ethics Board (REB) at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO). She earned her PhD from the Institute of Medical Science and Joint Centre for Bioethics at the University of Toronto. During her doctoral studies, Cécile was a Research Fellow with McGill University Faculty of Law Centre for Intellectual Property Policy as a member of the International Expert Group on Biotechnology, Innovation and Intellectual Property. As part of her work in global health, she jointly authored the book, Bioindustry Ethics, on ethical decision-making and corporate social responsibility in the bioscience industry. After obtaining her PhD, Cécile completed a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in pandemic ethics at the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics and did a visiting scholarship at Tel Aviv University’s Sackler School of Medicine in humanitarian and disaster ethics.
Cécile has served as an ethics advisor for various levels of government during the H1N1 pandemic and the COVID-19 pandemic, most recently on the COVID-19 Ontario Bioethics Table. She is an editor of the bilingual journal Canadian Journal of Bioethics and a member of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Committee on Ethics and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC) Ethics Committee.
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Wednesday, November 30, 2022
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