Women's College Hospital and University Health Network
University of Toronto, ON, Canada
Dr. Karen Devon is an endocrine surgeon at Women's College Hospital and the University Health Network in Toronto. She is an Associate Professor and the first "surgeon-ethicist" in the Department of Surgery at the University of Toronto and also appointed at the Joint Center for Bioethics in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. She completed medical training at McGill University and then entered the general surgery program at U of T during which she also completed a Master's Degree in Clinical Epidemiology under the supervision of Dr. Robin McLeod. She then attended the University of Chicago for a fellowship in Endocrine Surgery as well as a fellowship in Clinical Ethics at the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics. Between 2016 and 2019 she had three children. She teaches and publishes on topics in surgical ethics, as well as on medicine and the holocaust and antisemitism, and is the Program Lead for Medical Aid in Dying at the University Health Network.
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Humanities in Surgery Lectureship
Sunday, June 2, 2024
2:30 PM – 3:15 PM ET, USA
Humanities in Surgery Lectureship
Sunday, June 2, 2024
2:30 PM – 3:15 PM ET, USA
We Only Die Once: A Canadian Surgeon's View on Providing MAID
Sunday, June 2, 2024
2:40 PM – 3:15 PM ET, USA