Dr. Franco Carnevale

Dr. Carnevale is a nurse, psychologist and clinical ethicist. He completed his undergraduate nursing degree, and three master's degrees in nursing, education, and bioethics, as well as a doctorate in counseling psychology at McGill University. He also completed a master’s degree in philosophy at Université de Sherbrooke and a second doctorate in moral philosophy at Université Laval. In addition, he completed graduate studies in health law, anthropology, and cultural psychiatry. Dr. Carnevale's primary research interests include a wide range of concerns in pediatric ethics. Dr. Carnevale is the founder and principal investigator for VOICE (i.e., Views On Interdisciplinary Childhood Ethics); a McGill-based international initiative to advance knowledge and practices relating to ethical concerns in childhood. Dr. Carnevale’s current academic appointments include (all at McGill University): Full Professor, Ingram School of Nursing; Associate Member, Faculty of Medicine (Pediatrics); Adjunct Professor, Counselling Psychology; Affiliate Member, Biomedical Ethics Unit. His clinical appointments include: Co-Chair of the Pediatric Ethics Committee, Nursing Advisor, and Associate Member of Pediatric Critical Care, all at the Montreal Children's Hospital-McGill University Health Centre; as well as Clinical Ethicist for Child, Adolescent and Family Services at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute and Clinical Ethics Consultant at Le Phare, Enfants et Familles (pediatric hospice and respite care).

Dr. Mary McNally

Dr. McNally is a professor and researcher in the Faculties of Dentistry (Clinical Sciences) and Medicine (Bioethics) at Dalhousie University. The first decade of her dental career was spent as a general dentist in rural Nova Scotia where she witnessed large gaps in care for priority populations, particularly for older adults who are dependent on others for care. These experiences have shaped her academic career. A hallmark of her research program is building interdisciplinary teams that involve community partners and knowledge-users to inform research priorities and processes. Provincial and national funding has supported Mary’s research in personal mouth care of frail older adults, applied ethics, and more recently to support community-based research to address oral health challenges facing Inuit and First Nations people in Atlantic Canada.

Dr. Nathalie Morin

Dr. Morin graduated from Montreal University in 1990 and since then she continues practicing General Dentistry. She completed a Master Degree in Dental Public Health from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research in Bethesda Maryland, from 2002 to 2004.

In 2008 she worked with the Office of the Canadian Chief Dental Officer, as one of the two Gold Standard Examiners for the dental component of the Canadian Health Measure Survey. For this new challenge, she was calibrated to the WHO standards, and was responsible to maintain and ensure the calibration among dental examiners, while traveling to examination centers in the country.

Dr. Morin is currently working as Associate Dean, Clinical Affairs for the McGill Faculty of Dentistry. She manages the dental clinics of the Faculty, and is also involved in the teaching of dental caries’ diagnosis and management.

Dr Nazik Nurelhuda Suleiman

Dr. Suleiman is the Migrant Oral Health Project’s research associate at the Faculty of Dentistry (University of Toronto). She is a member of the Faculty of Public Health (Royal Colleges of Physicians UK), Fellow of the Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research Institute (USA) and holds a PhD in Community Dentistry from the University of Bergen (Norway). She has over 9 years of working experience in public health practice and research and a demonstrated history of working in higher education, government sector and the World Health Organization. Dr Suleiman was able to branch out in her career from dental public health to the promotion and protection of general human health and as a result has developed interests in health system development, medical education, migration health and social justice.