Lisa Schwartz

Lisa Schwartz
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Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Associate Member, Department of Philosophy
Associate Director, Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis

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McMaster University
CRL Building, 2nd Floor, Rm. 224
1280 Main Street West
   Hamilton, ON
   L8S 4K1

Lisa Schwartz is in her second five-year term as the Arnold L. Johnson Chair in Health Care Ethics. She is an associate professor in the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics and an associate member in the Department of Philosophy. She is also the Faculty of Health Sciences representative for the Faculty of Humanities. She received a PhD in philosophy from the University of Glasgow (1996), and both an MA (1990) and a BA (1985) in philosophy from McGill University. She is also a founding member of the Ontario Cancer Research Ethics Board (OCREB), and served as a consultant to Cancer Care Ontario (2001-2005), advising on issues of clinical ethics. Schwartz has been involved in the development of an ethics and moral reasoning stream of Professional Competencies for the undergraduate medical education program at McMaster University, has led workshops to build faculty and staff knowledge in health ethics and has created a website on ethics in health care. She is a standing member of the Clinical Ethics Committee for Hamilton Health Sciences, Chair of the Bioethics Interest Group (BIG) for the Faculty of Health Sciences, and member of the McMaster Research Ethics Board Appeals Committee. She has several research interests in health care ethics and ethics in health care education, research ethics, privacy and access to biosamples, patient advocacy, and measurement and effectiveness of ethics education.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • the teaching of ethics in health care education
  • patient advocacy
  • research ethics
  • bioethics
  • privacy and confidentiality
  • global health ethics 

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

Sinding C, Schwartz L, Hunt M, Redwood-Campbell L, Elit L, Ranford J. Playing God because you have to?: Health professionals' narratives of rationing care in humanitarian and development work. Public Health Ethics, 2010. 3(2): 147-156.
 
DeJean D, Giacomini M, Schwartz L, Miller FA. Ethics in Canadian health technology assessment: A descriptive review. International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 2009. 25(4): 463-469.
 
Willison DJ, Swinton M, Schwartz L, Abelson J, Charles C, Northrup D, Cheng J, Thabane L. Alternatives to project-specific consent for access to personal information for health research: Insights from a public dialogue. BMC Medical Ethics, Nov. 19, 2008. 9:18.
 
Saginur R, Dent SF, Schwartz L, Heslegrave R, Stacey S, Manzo J. Ontario Cancer Research Ethics Board: Lessons learned from developing a multicenter regional institutional review board. Journal of Clinical Oncology, March 20, 2008. 26(9): 1479-82.
 
Willison DJ, Schwartz L, Abelson J, Charles C, Swinton M, Northrup D, Thabane L. Alternatives to project-specific consent for access to personal information for health research: What is the opinion of the Canadian public? Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2007. 14(6): 706-712.

Goldie J, Schwartz L, Morrison J. Sex and the surgery: Students' attitudes and potential behaviour as they pass through a modern medical curriculum. Journal of Medical Ethics. October, 2004. 30(5):480-6.

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

  • health ethics
  • bioethics
  • ethics in human research
  • health law
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