Established in 2004, the CAHS helps to bring together Canada’s top-ranked health and biomedical scientists and scholars with the goal of understanding and addressing the urgent health concerns of Canadians.Fellows of the CAHS are elected on the basis of their demonstrated leadership, creativity, distinctive competencies and commitment to advancing academic health sciences. Fellows volunteer their expert advice and analysis to help inform public policy development and improve the health of all Canadians.
Professor Chandler is a founding member of the Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics and holds the Bertram Loeb Research Chair in Organ and Tissue Donation. Her research explores the legal and ethical aspects of biomedical science and technology, with a focus on the intersection of the brain sciences, law and ethics, and the legal policy related to organ donation and transplantation. No stranger to international collaborations, Professor Chandler led the publication of the first international comparative study of the laws of “psychosurgery” with the contributions of leading functional neurosurgeons from Europe, Asia and the Americas. She also coordinates a tri-national project – Hybrid Minds – which brings together researchers from Switzerland, Germany and Canada to examine the implications of embedding artificial intelligence within neuroprosthetics. Professor Chandler also regularly contributes to Canadian governmental policy on challenging matters of biomedicine. Just recently, for example, she co-authored a report on safeguards related to medical assistance in dying in the context of mental illness as part of a government-commissioned expert panel. On July 1, 2022, she assumed the role of Vice-Dean of Research for the Common Law Section.
As a Fellow of the CAHS, Professor Chandler joins her colleague Professor Colleen Flood, who was elected to the Academy in 2018.
Congratulations to Professor Chandler on this exceptional achievement!
