Members

Daryl Pullman, PhD
Professor of Medical Ethics
Memorial University 

Daryl Pullman is Professor of Medical Ethics in the Faculty of Medicine at Memorial University. He is cross-appointed to the School of Nursing and to the Department of Philosophy, and has a clinical ethics appointment with Eastern Health, the local regional health authority

Daryl earned his MA and PhD degrees in philosophy at the University of Waterloo. After completing his graduate work he taught for 8 years at the University of Waterloo Centre for Society, Technology and Values. During that time he worked as a health care ethics consultant to a number of hospitals, nursing homes, and related organizations in southwestern Ontario.

Since coming to Memorial in 1998, Daryl has been centrally involved in a number of provincial initiatives related to health policy and health care ethics, including the establishment of a Provincial Health Research Ethics Board. He is a former member of the Advisory Board for the CIHR Genetics Institute, and continues to co-chair the institute's Priority and Planning Committee for Ethical, Legal and Social Issues related to genetic research. Daryl is a member of the Ethics Oversight Committee for the Canadian Life-long Study of Aging, and has served as well as on the CIHR Standing Committee on Ethics.

Daryl's current research interests include research ethics, ethics and ageing, privacy and access to health information, and issues related to genetic research and therapy. He has a continuing philosophical interest in the concept of human dignity and its foundational role in moral epistemology.

Daryl has published numerous articles, book chapters, and abstracts in scholarly publications, and is a frequent contributor to public media on a variety of health related issues.