- Location
- Webinar
- Series/Type
- Bioethics Seminar, DLSPH Event
- Dates
- March 17, 2021 from 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Links
University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics Seminar Series 2020-21
Speakers:
Jennifer Chandler, Faculty of Law – Common Law Section, University of Ottawa
Christy Simpson, Department of Bioethics, Dalhousie University & Canadian Blood Services
About this Seminar:
Current concepts of death determination have created the idea of two distinct forms of death – brain death and cardiac death – yet there is variability and inconsistency with respect to these concepts as well as practices and documentation for diagnosing death using neurologic or circulatory criteria. A recent project, which is a joint collaboration between the Canadian Critical Care Society, Canadian Blood Services, and the Canadian Medical Association and funded by Health Canada, aims to deliver a guideline that includes a brain-based definition of death, as well as evidence-based and expert-informed criteria for death determination after arrest of circulation or neurologic function, in the context of organ donation. As the co-leads of the Ethics and Legal Working Group for this project, we will share key ethical and legal issues and considerations in relation to this work, primarily from an organ donation perspective.
Additional Details:
This event is free and is open to the general public.
The direct link to the seminar will be sent out to registered participants 2 hours before the event. All of the JCB Bioethics Seminars are now being live streamed to our YouTube channel. If you don’t receive the link 2 hours before the event, please head over there and click on the live stream. Subscribe to our channel to receive notices of live events.
Questions?
Please email Laurie Bulchak, laurie.bulchak@utoronto.ca.