Topic: Integrating Normative Ethical Analysis and Qualitative Inquiry: Experience in a CIHR study of "adequate" home environments for disabled younger adults

Presented by: 
Dr. Barbara Gibson, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy, University of Toronto
Scientist at the Bloorview Research Institute.

and

Dr. Barbara Secker, PhD, Director, Education & Practice, Joint Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto

Objectives:

1. To review and discuss the results of a recently completed CIHR study examining the ethics of home and home care for disabled young people.
2. To explore methods of combining ethical analysis and empirical research approaches.

Barbara Gibson is a physiotherapist who holds a PhD from the Collaborative Programs in Bioethics at the University of Toronto. Barbara’s research uses theoretically informed qualitative methods to examine the social and ethical dimensions of disability, rehabilitation and community care. Her work is transdisciplinary combining methods and theories from bioethics, critical social theory and the health sciences. She is a member of the Joint Centre for Bioethics at the University of Toronto, an academic fellow at the Centre for Critical Qualitative Health Research, and a member scholar at the International Institute for Qualitative Methodology, Alberta.

Barbara Secker directs the Joint Centre for Bioethics Clinical, Organizational and Research Ethics (CORE) Network, its Postgraduate Academic Fellowship in Clinical and Organizational Ethics, the Masters in Bioethics Program, and the graduate Collaborative Program in Bioethics at the University of Toronto. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy.   Barbara received her PhD through the University of Toronto's Department of Philosophy with a specialization in bioethics through the Collaborative Program in Bioethics.  From 1998-2008, Barbara was employed by the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute where she developed, implemented and led a comprehensive ethics program.  Her primary areas of interest are: (1) patient autonomy and decision-making capacity in health and research contexts, (2) disability, rehabilitation and community care ethics, and (3) ethics program innovation, development and evaluation.  

This rounds presentation will be moderated by Dr. Randi Zlotnik Shaul, Associate Scientist, CHES-RI

This event is an accredited group learning activity as defined by the Maintenance of  Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada