I’m an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto Scarborough. I teach and research bioethics, and i work with health organizations to promote ethical outcomes in healthcare.

I write about ethics for my newsletter, Value Judgments.

Areas of Expertise


 

Clinical ethics

Bioethics

Normative ethics

Business ethics

Recent Publications


 

Refusals and Requests: In Defense of Consistency,” Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics (2024).

Prescribing safe supply: ethical considerations for clinicians,” Journal of medical ethics (2022).

Taking the long view on slippery slope objections,” Journal of medical ethics (2021).

The Wrong argument for a bad law,” American Journal of Bioethics (2021).

Value Promotion as a Goal of Medicine,” Journal of Medical Ethics (2021). With Jeremy Davis.

saying it don’t make it so: A response to Winnington and Macleod,” New Zealand Medical journal (2020).

The Case for an Autonomy-Centred View of Physician-Assisted Death,” Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (2020). With Jeremy Davis.

Professional Interests


 

I help people make ethical decisions in healthcare.

My research interests include the goals of medicine, emerging technologies, conscientious objection, and physician-assisted death. In normative ethics, I have an ongoing research interest in ill-being.