UBC experts are available to provide media commentary on the topics of physician-assisted suicide and “the right to die,” including the legal case before B.C.’s Supreme Court.
Prof. Anita Ho
UBC W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics
Email: anita.ho@ubc.ca
Web: http://ethics.ubc.ca/index.php?p=misc&id=44
- Ethics and health care
- Different perspectives on legalizing assisted suicide, including those of physicians and disability groups
- Palliative care as an alternative to legalizing assisted suicide
Clinical Prof. Romayne Gallagher
UBC Division of Palliative Care
Palliative Care Program Head, Providence Health Care
Tel: 604.682.2344 (Ext. 63734)
Email: rgallagher@providencehealth.bc.ca
Web: http://palliativecare.med.ubc.ca/about-us/people/
- Palliative care/end-of-life care
- Pain and symptom management
- Complexities of end-of-life decision-making
Prof. Tim Stainton
UBC School of Social Work
Centre for Inclusion and Citizenship
Tel. 604.822.0782
Email: timothy.stainton@ubc.ca
Web: http://www.socialwork.ubc.ca/about-us/people/stainton-tim.html
- The issue from the perspective of people with disabilities
Prof. Peter Klein
UBC Graduate School of Journalism
Tel. 604.822.5823; 604.822.6707
Email: peter.klein@ubc.ca
Web: http://www.journalism.ubc.ca/faculty/peter_klein
- Produced “Life & Death” – a video-journalism project about one man’s fight for the right to doctor-assisted suicide
- The right-to-die issue in the U.S.
Adjunct Prof. Robert Smith
UBC Centre for Health Care Management
Sauder School of Business
Tel.: 604.827.4467
Email: robert.smith@sauder.ubc.ca
Web: www.sauder.ubc.ca/Faculty/People/Faculty_Members/Smith_Robert
- The potential impacts of assisted suicide on the health care system (costs, management, etc.)
Prof. Scott Anderson
UBC Dept. of Philosophy
Tel.: 604.822.4769
Email: scottand@interchange.ubc.ca
Web: http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/sanderson
- Applied ethics, philosophy
Dr. Doris Barwich
UBC Division of Palliative Care
Fraser Health End of Life Care
Canadian Society of Palliative Care Physicians
Tel: 604.587.4669 ; 604.613.5872
Email: doris.barwich@fraserhealth.ca
- The perspectives of palliative care physicians who care for the terminally ill and their families
To speak with UBC legal experts, contact UBC Public Affairs (Basil Waugh or Heather Amos) to arrange interviews.
Visit the UBC newsroom for updates to this list: www.ubc.ca/news.
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