Trudo Lemmens is Professor and Scholl Chair in Health Law and Policy. He is cross appointed to the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, the Faculty of Medicine, and the Joint Centre for Bioethics. He is an elected Fellow of the Canadian Academy of the Health Sciences and of the Hastings Center. 


Professor Lemmens’ publications include the co-authored books Medical Law in Canada and Reading the Future? Legal and Ethical Challenges of Predictive Genetic Testing; the co-edited volumes MAiD in Canada: Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide as Medical Care, Regulating Creation: The Law, Policy and Ethics of Assisted Human Reproduction, and Law and Ethics in Biomedical Research: Regulation, Conflict of Interest, and Liability, as well as numerous chapters and articles in national and international law, policy, science, medicine and bioethics journals. He has been consulted widely by national and international organizations and has presented in the area of his expertise before a variet

y of parliamentary committees. He has been a member of various international and national expert committees, including the Advisory Committee on Health Research of the Pan American Health Organization; and two expert panels of the Council of Canadian Academies: one on access to health data, the other on advance requests and medical assistance in dying.



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