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Dr. Nancy Walton is the Associate Dean, Student Affairs in the Yeates School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, and an Associate Professor in the Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing, at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU). At TMU since 2003, she has previously served as Director of the School of Nursing, as Director of eLearning, and as the Chair of the TMU Research Ethics Board. In 2016-17 she was seconded to the Ontario Ministry of Colleges and Universities as Special Advisor to the Deputy Minister.

Dr. Walton serves as an ethicist on, and Deputy Chair of the Health Canada and Public Health Agency of Canada’s Research Ethics Board. She also served as the Chair of the Women's College Hospital Research Ethics Board from 2015-2021.

Dr. Walton has a PhD in Nursing with completion of the Collaborative Program in Bioethics from the University of Toronto (2003) and an undergraduate degree in nursing science from TMU (1992). She has published and presented on priority setting and decision-making in cardiac surgery, ethical considerations of internet-based research, research ethics board composition, and ethical and legal considerations in research on children and adolescents and most recently on ethical issues arising in the Ebola virus disease outbreak as well as the implications of artificial intelligence in nursing. She was a co-investigator for the CIHR Team Grant-funded project CCORT 2 (Canadian Cardiovascular Outcomes Research Team 2) and co-investigator for the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care-funded project on Variations in Revascularization Practices in Ontario, and is currently a Co-Investigator for an ongoing clinical trial on coercion and consent. As a PI, her areas of research and interest are the experiences of parenting children with disabilities, and the ethical considerations in the use of technologies and innovations in health care.

Dr. Walton was a longstanding member with expertise in ethics on the Research Ethics Board at the Hospital for Sick Children, a founding member of the Research Ethics Board at the Ontario College of Art and Design University, a scientific member of the REB at Women's College Hospital and she remains an ad hoc member of the TMU REB. She was a previous member of the National Council on Ethics in Human Research (NCEHR) and is a member of CAREB (Canadian Association of Research Ethics Boards). In 2016, she received the Distinguished Service Award from the Canadian Association of Research Ethics Boards (CAREB) for significant contributions to research ethics through teaching, research or service.

Dr. Janice Waddell is a Professor Emeritus in the Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing (DCSN) at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU). Over the course of her academic career at TMU, Dr. Waddell has served as a faculty member and Associate Director in the DCSN, Associate Dean of the Faculty of Community Services, inaugural Director of Experiential Learning, and Interim Associate Director of the Yeates School of Graduate Studies (YSGS). In addition, she has served as a supervisor for undergraduate and graduate students in Toronto Metropolitan University’s Undergraduate and Master of Nursing programs.

Dr. Waddell’s teaching, learning and research interests include: Career planning and development for nurses, with a particular emphasis on nursing students and faculty; factors influencing student engagement; enhancing the transition from student to registered nurse; curriculum development; new faculty development; and the scholarship of learning and teaching.

Dr. Waddell has been active in the nursing community and has held many leadership roles within the Registered Nurses Foundation of Ontario, a charitable organization that supports nurses and nursing students to advance their nursing leadership, education, and scholarship. Dr. Waddell was made an honorary member of the Canadian Nursing Students’ Association in acknowledgement of her career planning and development work with undergraduate nursing students.