NOTE TO EDITORS: 

Officials of the Department of Health and Community Services and the Faculty of Medicine at Memorial University of Newfoundland are participating today (Friday, July 20) in an Experts Consultation on Provincial Health Research Ethics issues. The expert panel includes:

Dr. Michael McDonald, the Maurice Young Chair of Applied Ethics and founder and director of the Centre for Applied Ethics at the University of British Columbia. Dr. McDonald was a member and co-chair of the Tri-Council Working Group on Ethics which prepared the Code of Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans. His current research centres on the ethics of research involving humans.

Dr. Douglas Kinsella, recently retired professor of Medicine and former director of Medical Bioethics at the University of Calgary. Dr. Kinsella has served as the president of the National Council on Bioethics in Human Research and of the Canadian Bioethics Society and as a member of the Tri-Council Working Group on Ethics.

Professor Timothy Caulfied, associate professor and research director of the Health Law Institute in the Faculty of Law at the University of Alberta. Professor Caulfield has published widely in various areas of health law and ethics, including issues arising from commercialization of human genetics.

Drs. McDonald and Kinsella, and Professor Caulfied are available for media interviews at 1 p.m. today outside Conference Room A, Ground Floor, West Block, Confederation Building.

Media contact: Carmel Turpin, (709) 729-1377.

2001 07 20                                                         9:20 a.m.