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Current Students
Students enrolled in the program come from a wide variety of
backgrounds including law, nuclear medicine, biological
sciences, nursing, humanities, and social sciences. Like their
predecessors in the Program, these students will be taking
courses and writing theses on a wide range of topics in the
field of health law and policy.
Saad Abughanm
Saad received his Bachelor degree in Law in 1997 from the
University of Jordan, Jordan. Following his graduation, Saad
worked for two Jordanian law firms as in-house legal council. In
2004 he graduated first in class with a LLM Degree in
Intellectual Property Law in the University of Jordan. In 2005
he was contracted by the Government of Jordan to work for the
Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Jordan as Head of
Postal Regulatory Department. Tasks of the job included: Policy
Implementation; assisting drafting Postal Law, by-law, and
related regulations; and supervision of the Postal Sector in
general. In 2007, Saad became a member of the Private Law
Department of the Faculty of Law/ University of Jordan, Jordan
as a Research & Teaching assistant. In 2008, Saad joined the
Doctoral Program at the University of Toronto as a SJD
candidate. His thesis work (supervised by Professor Ariel Katz
and Professors Michael Trebilcock and Jillian Kohler serving as
members in the Advisory Committee), examines the legal standards
of patent protection as enshrined in the TRIPS Agreement and
their implementation implications for developing countries,
Jordan in particular. Central to his work is the investigation
of potential implication on national Pharmaceutical Industries’
abilities to manufacture affordable drugs to patients living in
the South as consequences of protection provided to the so-
called Regulatory data protection pursuant to article 39.3 of
the TRIPS Agreement.
Terry Adido
Terry was born in Kaduna State, Nigeria in 1982. He received his
LL.B. degree from the University of Lagos, Nigeria, from which
he graduated with a Second Class (Upper Division) in 2006. In
2006, he won an award for being the best student in Labor Law in
his faculty. During his period at the University of Lagos, he
carried out a lot of research on HIV/AIDS and its relationship
with the Workplace. This also formed the basis of his final year
thesis. He also has great interest in health and safety
standards in the workplace and rights at work. He worked as a
Research Assistant to members of his faculty during his under
graduate studies.
Shortly after obtaining his LL.B., he proceeded to the Nigerian
Law School, Bwari, Abuja where he acquired his BL in 2007, also
with a Second Class (Upper Division). He was called to the
Nigerian Bar and became a member of the Nigerian Bar Association
in November 2007. After graduating from the Law School, he
worked in two of Nigeria’s biggest banks: Zenith Bank and
BankPHB. He was able to acquire a lot of experience about the
commercial sector of the economy, commercial law and the status
of the Nigerian labor force during this period. He was also a
Unicef HIV/AIDS Peer Educator Trainer. During which time he was
involved in training high school students on HIV/AIDS, STDs,
negotiation skills and sexual reproduction issues.
Terry is presently an LL.M student (Thesis Based) at the
University of Alberta, Edmonton. He is a recipient of the
Canadian Institute for Health Research Training Fellowship in
Health Law and Policy. He is part of the Health Law institute
and is currently carrying out research on HIV/AIDS and the Right
to Work. Terry hopes to get acquire a Ph.D. degree after his
LL.M degree and ultimately become part of the Legal Academy via
lecturing and research.
Kesaundra Alves
Kesaundra is an LL.M student at Dalhousie University. Born in
Georgetown, Guyana, she received her LL.B. from the University
of Guyana and then went on to complete her practical legal
education at Hugh Wooding Law School in Trinidad and Tobago.
Kesaundra is an attorney-at-law in Guyana, admitted to the Bar
in October 2008. She has worked for two years with Pan Caribbean
Partnership Against HIV/AIDS (PANCAP) and one year with the
Health Programme at the Caribbean Communty (CARICOM)
Secretariat. Her research interests lie in sexual and
reproductive health, human rights and HIV/AIDS.
Gulrukh Asif
Gulrukh graduated from faculty of law university of Peshawar
Pakistan in 2002. In 2003, Gulrukh worked as an apprentice with
Mohammad Sardar kKhan senior lawyer of the Supreme Court
Pakistan. While working with him, she attended accountability
and family courts. Gulrukh is enrolled in a course work LLM at
Dalhousie University with a strong focus on Health Law.
Cara Davies
Cara graduated from the J.D. program at the University of
Toronto in May 2009. She began her LL.M. at the University of
Toronto in September 2009 and will be completing a thesis
intensive LL.M. in reproductive and sexual health law. During
her time at U of T, Davies has been actively involved in the
International Reproductive and Sexual Health Law Programme. She
participated in the Health Equity and Law Clinic and completed a
Reproductive and Sexual Health Law summer internship at Action
Canada for Population and Development, a women’s human rights
advocacy organization in Ottawa. Cara completed her supervised
upper year research paper in Professor Rebecca Cook’s Women’s
Rights in International Law class, where she examined the role
of gender stereotyping in the emerging women-protective
antiabortion movement. Cara presented this work at the U of T
Women’s Rights Student Symposium and at the U of T Joint Centre
for Bioethics “Public health, ethics, law and policy” workshop.
She is continuing this work with her LL.M. thesis, where she
will be examining the ways in which Canadian constitutional law
can respond to the emerging women-protective antiabortion
movement. Her work will examine s.7 and s.15 Charter
jurisprudence with a goal of developing robust legal arguments
that may be used by reproductive rights advocates to defend
against this new threat to women’s reproductive rights.
Sarah Drummond
Sarah was born and raised in Calgary. She attended Queen’s
University and obtained her BA in Psychology and Sociology in
2003. Sarah then attended law school at the University of
Victoria and participated in the co-op program, working as a
policy analyst for the BC government, in private practice, and
in-house at an international company. Following graduation,
Sarah clerked at the Alberta Court of Appeal in Calgary for 10
months, finishing her articles at an international law firm in
Calgary. Called to the Alberta Bar in 2008, Sarah worked for a
year in private practice, with a focus on transactional work in
the oil and gas sector. Sarah’s interest in health law arises
from her work as a patient care volunteer at a hospice in
Calgary, and from work in her first law degree analyzing the
compassionate care benefit offered through the Employment
Insurance Act. Sarah’s LLM thesis at the University of Toronto
will continue to look at the compassionate care benefit offered
to informal caregivers, specifically looking at the gendered
implications of delivering such a benefit through the Employment
Insurance Act.
Marie Dussault
Marie was born in 1986 in Montreal, Canada. She acquired her
Bachelor degree in Law at Laval University in 2008 before
completing the Quebec Bar in 2009. She now attends the Faculty
of Law at Sherbrooke University where she intends to obtain a
degree in Health Law and Politics.
While studying at Laval University, she developed a keen
interest in issues of health in relation to the law. Further
research was focused on medical liability, medical malpractice
as well as the application of risk theory to health care. From
her studies she has noticed a consistent focus on the aspect of
medical liability, whereas her interest lies with the political
facet of medical law. In the coming years, she plans to focus
her studies on the government’s support of universal health care
as well as the interaction between pharmaceutical companies run
clinical trials and the medical community to bring some light as
to how biases and conflicts of interests are kept out of
legislations.
Laura Feldman
Laura is an LLM candidate in the Faculty of Law at the
University of Toronto Canada with a Fellowship from the
University Faculty of Law and a Bursary from the Harold G Fox
Trustees. Completing the course intensive program has allowed
Laura to study a number of courses focusing on international
health law and policy. Laura’s thesis is a comparative study of
the commonwealth approach to the award of aggravated, punitive
and restitutionary damages in medical law cases, particularly
within the tort actions arising from asbestos related diseases
and the use of biomedical material by scientific researchers.
Laura read History at King’s College London attaining the
Associate of King’s College receiving a distinction in her final
year. After attending KCL, Laura completed a BA (Honours) in
Jurisprudence at Oxford University and was awarded the Lovell’s
Second Year Prize for Achievement and several collection Prizes
for distinctions in termly examinations. The University also
awarded Laura a number of Travel Awards allowing her to visit
the ICC, ICTY and ICJ and complete a short stage at the European
Court of Justice. She then completed the Bar Vocation Course at
BPP Law School London, was a Middle Temple Astbury Scholar and
received the Middle Temple Wareing Trust Award and a distinction
in the Middle Temple Colombus Public International Law Essay
Prize. Laura was called to the English Bar in 2010 and after
completing her LLM, Laura will commence pupillage at Hailsham
Chambers in England specialising in medical and clinical and
professional negligence Law.
During her academic studies, Laura gained a range of employment,
volunteered for a number of NGOs, held several Committee
positions and competed successfully in several moots and has
gained considerable exposure to health law and policy. Laura
completed vacation schemes and mini-pupillages at a number of
leading English law firms, management consultants and barrister
chambers, marshalled with Justice Gloster in the English High
Court and Lord Justice Jacob in the English Court of Appeal and
worked as a Research Assistant within a law firm specialising in
medical law. During her legal studies, Laura taught
constitutional, criminal and roman Law at Oxford University,
represented individuals for the Free Representation and Personal
Support Units and was the President of the Oxford University
Middle Temple Society and sat on the University Student
Consultative Committee. The voluntary work completed for the
Free Representation Unit exposed Laura to the regulatory
framework around health care support and her work was recognised
in the FRU Annual Report 2009. In addition, Laura won the Oxford
University Gray’s Inn Moot, was selected to represent the
University in the Jessup International law moot, coached the
varsity moot team and attained the highest individual score in
the varsity Roman law moot.
Ninoslav Mladenovic
Ninoslav has earned his LLM degree in International Human Rights
Law at the University of Notre Dame Law School in 2001. He has
an extensive professional experience in human rights filed with
OSCE, UN and various national and international NGOs. His
primary focus is promotion and protection of international
minority rights standards, analyzing the implementation of those
standards in comparative jurisdictions, and proposing policy
initiatives to address problems faced by particular vulnerable
groups. Ninoslav’s involvement in the field of public health
began with an interest in HIV prevention strategies in his
native Macedonia, where being involved in the implementation of
the project related to advocacy and lobbying for improvement of
sexual and reproductive health and rights of young people. His
international involvement, particularly with respect to the work
of the European AIDS Treatment Group (EATG) only broadened the
scope of his interest in HIV testing, criminalization of HIV
transmission, travel restrictions for HIV positive people,
providing information to patients etc. Ninoslav’s acceptance at
2009/10 UT Graduate Programme in Sexual and Reproductive Health
Law will only bring him a step forward into applying a human
rights framework to sexual and reproductive health, and teach
him novel approaches how to improve global response to HIV/AIDS.
Cheluchi Onyemelukwe
Cheluchi graduated from the University of Nigeria in 2000 with
First Class Honours. She was called to the Nigerian bar in 2002.
She practised law with G. Elias & Co. in Lagos, Nigeria before
commencing her LLM at Dalhousie University in September 2003.
Cheluchi graduated with her LLM from Dalhousie in 2004.
Cheluchi started her JSD at Dalhousie University in January
2007. Her thesis focuses on the governance of research involving
humans in developing countries.
Ahmed Saleh
Ahmed is a practicing administrative lawyer from Egypt. He
acquired a combined Bachelor degree in civil law and Islamic law
from al-Azhar University. He is a Certified Information
Technology Professional from Software Human Resources Council,
Canada, and a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer and Database
Administrator. He holds a Masters in Religion and Modernity from
Queen’s University and is currently a candidate for the Doctor
of Juridical Science at the University of Toronto. In the past
three years, Ahmed has taken on several teaching and research
assistantship positions in areas of research such as
contemporary problems in religion and culture, minorities in
Islamic law and privacy of biomedical information. He assists
Professor Anver Emon at the Faculty of Law, University of
Toronto, in organizing a regular workshop on the role of history
in Islamic and Jewish laws and in editing the Middle East Law
and Governance: An Interdisciplinary Journal . In his doctoral
program, Ahmed is investigating the relationship between the
legal category of property and the human body in the context of
organ sale and donation from the perspective of Islamic
jurisprudence. Ahmed also writes on litigating the right to
health in Egypt and on the Egyptian health care policy."
Michael Taylor
Michael is a LLM candidate (Thesis stream) in the faculty of Law
at Dalhousie University. He is a recipient of the Canadian
Institute for Health Research Training Fellowship in Health Law
and Policy. He is researching the flaws in the regulatory
process of new drug approvals.
Michael is presently a senior policy analyst at Health Canada
(Health Protection and Food Branch). Michael sits on the
Progressive Licensing Working Group (which input into the
proposed new Food and Drug Act – Bill C-51), the Branch Clinical
Safety and Efficacy Committee, and the Health Canada Scientific
Integrity Working Group. Michael has also been the policy lead
on the Natural Health Products Regulatory Review (NHPRR) and
drafted the key consultation document Charting a Course:
Refining Canada's Approach to Regulating Natural Health
Products.
Before undertaking his LLM, Michael graduated with his LLB in
2002 from Dalhousie. After graduation he went to work for NPC
Group SA, an Edmonton based trust firm specializing in
international banking & finance. In 2004 he took a researcher
position with the University Of Alberta Faculty Of Medicine and
Nursing working under the aegis of the Knowledge Utilization
Studies Program (KUSP). During this time he was involved with
several studies on how to translate evidence based
research/innovation into group practice settings. He also worked
closely with the Center for Knowledge Transfer and Capacity
Building Team in the Faculty of Medicine/Nursing at the
University of Alberta
Antonella Trisolino
Antonella graduated from “Universita’degli Studi di Roma La
Sapienza”. In 1996-1997, she attended an annual Training Course
for Forensic and Judicial Studies ‘’Carlo Arturo Jemolo” in
Italy. In 1999, she qualified as a lawyer and registered in the
Lawyers Association of Rome, Italy. In 1999 and 2000, Antonella
pursued legal experience at legal firms in Ireland. In 2003 as a
legal researcher and writer for “Unione Tipografica–Editrice
Torinese’’, Antonella published “Health and Wealth Ness Damage:
Damage of Social Relationships, Esthetical Damage, Hedonistic
Damage” in “New Rights and Compensation–Civil and Criminal
Defence, ” (Critical Jurisprudence, Paolo Cendon, Vol.8 UTET).
In 2001, Antonella received a Masters in Business Bankruptcy Law
from the Association of Trustee in Bankruptcy in Rome, Italy. In
March 2009, she was accepted by the University of Toronto to
pursue an LL.M. Antonella’s research topic is based on
intellectual property effects on scientific research, right to
healthcare, and public safety.
Jacqueline Shaw
Jacqui brings to her graduate studies in health law and policy a
broad knowledge of the life and health sciences and their
application to law. Prior to commencing her graduate legal
studies, Jacqui held several legal and scientific research
positions in the fields of environment and health, at research
institutions and NGOs in Canada and abroad. Past work has
included projects with the World Wildlife Fund, TRAFFIC-North
America, West Coast Environmental Law, Child Family Health
International and Dalhousie’s Health Law Institute. Most
recently, she has been a Research Associate with the Thomas
Braidwood, QC, Commissions of Inquiry into the death of Polish
immigrant Mr. Robert Dziekanski, in British Columbia. Her role
with the Commissions involved leading the medical-legal research
on the use of Taser conducted energy weapons. Jacqui holds a
Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Biology and Chemistry
(Dalhousie University), a Master of Science in Biomedical
Communications (University of Toronto) and a Bachelor of Laws
(Dalhousie), with specializations in environmental law and
health law and policy.
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