Andrea is the Director of the Program for Ethics and Care Ecologies (PEaCE) at Hamilton Health Sciences and Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University. She has a Ph.D. in cultural Anthropology from Rice University in Houston, Texas, including a two-year fellowship in Clinical Ethics at the University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center. By sparking collaboration between psycho-spiritual care, ethics, trauma-informed care and end-of-life initiatives, including Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD), the innovative PEaCE program aims to enhance provider resilience, teamwork, ethical practice, and quality of living and dying. Andrea’s research interests include: MAiD patient/family experiences and quality improvement; healthcare worker well-being; ethics integration from bedside-to-boardroom; and developing practices to enable whole person care for patients, families and providers. 

I have/had an affiliation (financial or otherwise) with a for-profit or not-for-profit organization.
- Received payment from an organization: Hamilton Health Sciences (Director, Ethics and MAiD program)
- Received a grant or honorarium: CAMAP (Member of Canadian MAiD Curriculum Development Committee)

I do not intend to make therapeutic recommendations for medications that have not received regulatory approval (i.e., "off-label" use of medications)