Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing

Biography:

Dr. Nancy Walton is the Associate Director of the School of Nursing and an Associate Professor of Nursing. She teaches ethics in the MN program as well as Ethics in Health care and Professional Issues in the undergraduate collaborative program. Dr. Walton holds the position of the Chair of the Ryerson University Research Ethics Board and is a member of the Research Ethics Board at Hospital for Sick Children. In May 2007, she was appointed for a three year term to the National Council on Ethics in Human Research (NCEHR).

Dr. Walton has a PhD in Bioethics from the U of T Collaborative Program in Bioethics. She holds an undergraduate degree in Nursing from Ryerson University (1992) and has completed the Executive Program on “Understanding the New World of Health Care” at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto (2001). She has both published and presented in the areas of priority setting and decision making in general and cardiac surgery, research ethics board composition and mandates, educational research as well as risk in social science and humanities research, most recently in Health Policy, March 2007.

Dr. Walton is currently a Co-Investigator for the Canadian Cardiovascular Outcomes Research Team II (CCORT II) and as part of that team was awarded a 4.2 million dollar CIHR Team Grant in 2006. She also holds an internal Ryerson University research grant and has begun independent research work on priority setting in the provision of autism treatment in Canada and the emerging role of families in providing therapies.  Dr. Walton is a founding member and has been elected to the Senior Executive of the International Society for Priorities in Health Care. She is also a founding member of the Canadian Priority Setting Research Network and a member of the Canadian Bioethics Society and the Society for Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R).