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Canada is a wealthy pluralistic democracy similar to the US in many ways. Despite only recently legalizing the practice, it likely accounts for the majority of the world’s euthanasia cases (called medical assistance in dying, or MAID, in Canada). This talk will explain the unique features of Canadian MAID policy and practice, and consider the implications and lessons for the overall debate over assisted dying.

Scott Kim is a Senior Investigator in the Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health. Prior to joining NIH. He received his MD from Harvard and PhD in moral philosophy (on Kantian ethics) from the University of Chicago, and trained in adult psychiatry at the Massachusetts General Hospital.

He combines philosophical, clinical, and empirical research approaches to address several bioethical topics, including: ethical issues in human subjects research, decision-making capacity, surrogate consent, theory of informed consent, and end of life issues (especially euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide—for which he served on the Council of Canadian Academies Expert Panel on Medical Assistance in Dying).

Dr. Kim’s work has been supported by the NIMH, NINDS, NIA, NHGRI, Michael J. Fox Foundation, American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, and the Greenwall Foundation. His work has appeared in New England Journal of Medicine, Nature, JAMA, and other key journals, as well as being covered in popular media, such as the New York Times and the Atlantic.  His book Evaluation of Capacity to Consent to Treatment and Research (Oxford, 2010) is available in English and Japanese.

More information can be found at scottkimbioethics.org.