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Eugene Bereza is currently Director of the Centre for Applied Ethics at the McGill University Health Centre as well as Chair of the Research Ethics Board.  Dr. Bereza teaches the Bioethics Practicum course in the Bioethics Master's Program at McGill, one of the two core courses in that program. He also teaches ethics in a number of the Faculty of Medicine's Residency Programs including Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Psychiatry, Surgery, Obstetrics & Gynecology and the Fellowship Program in Reproductive Technologies.

Dr. Bereza completed his bioethics studies and his clinical ethics training as a post-doctoral Fellow at the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine.  His academic interests include the assessment of minimal risk in social science research as it relates to community health care, the comparative assessment of innovative care versus clinical research with respect to developing proportionate standards of informed consent, reproductive technologies, end-of-life care, and physician assisted suicide and euthanasia.

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