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Heidi L. Janz

Adjunct Professor of Disability Ethics, John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre, University of Alberta

Adjunct Professor of Disability Ethics, John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre, University of Alberta My interest in Disability Ethics is personal as well as professional. I am an academic who has specialized in the fields of Disability Studies and Disability Ethics for the last twenty years. From 2005 to 2009, I was a Post-Doctoral Fellow with the CIHR-funded Vulnerable Persons and End-of-Life New Emerging Team (VP-NET) Project, which was based at the University of Manitoba and led by Drs. Harvey Chochinov and Deborah Stienstra. I am currently an Adjunct Professor with the John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre at the University of Alberta. I have held this position for the past five years. In addition, I live with severe and multiple disabilities caused by Cerebral Palsy.