Ethox Seminar - Christina Lamb
Christina Lamb, Visiting Academic, Uehiro Oxford Institute; Bioethicist & Implementation Scientist, St. Michael's College, University of Toronto
Tuesday, 20 May 2025, 10.30am to 12pm
This will be a hybrid seminar in LG Seminar Room 0, Big Data Institute (Old Road Campus), and on Zoom (see joining link below).
Abstract
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Bio
Christina Lamb is a bioethicist and an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Health Disciplines, Athabasca University (Canada) and a Research Associate at the Canadian Catholic Bioethics Institute, St. Michael’s College in the University of Toronto (Canada). Dr Lamb was a Fellow in Science-Engaged Theology in the New Visions in Theological Anthropology project in the School of Divinity, University of St. Andrews (Scotland, 2020-22). She has interdisciplinary expertise in health science, empirical research and the humanities, and clinical expertise in paediatric oncology acute care, clinical bioethics and Global Health / Bioethics. Dr Lamb directs an international program of research on conscience in the ‘Aletheia Conscience Project’ and she is also establishing a national program of research on end-of-life ethics for children as a New Investigator funded by the Sick Kids Foundation and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research - Institute of Human Development, Child and Youth Health. Dr Lamb also explores the medicalization of death and the need to revalue dying and death as life events in healthcare. She is the author of ‘Conscience: The integrating aspect of being a moral person’ (in progress).