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​Franco A. Carnevale is a nurse, psychologist and clinical ethicist. He is the founder and principal investigator for VOICE: The Childhood Ethics Project, a ºÚÁÏÍø±¬³Ô¹Ï-based international initiative to advance knowledge and practices relating to ethical concerns regarding childhood. He academic appointments include: Full Professor, Ingram School of Nursing; Associate Member, Faculty of Medicine (Pediatrics); Adjunct Professor, Counselling Psychology; Associate Member, Department of Equity, Ethics and Policy, School of Population and Global Health. His clinical appointments include: Clinical ethicist, Youth Services / Child Welfare, Montréal West Island Integrated University Health and Social Services Centre; Clinical Ethics Consultant/Chair, Clinical Ethics Committee, Shriner's Hospitals for Children (Canada); Clinical Ethics Consultant, Le Phare, Enfants et Familles (pediatric hospice); Associate Member, Pediatric Critical Care, Montreal Children's Hospital.Ìý

Area of Research

VOICE website:Ìý

Current ProjectsÌý

Promoting youth engagement in research, policymaking, and practice development (within healthcare, mental health services, child welfare).

ÌýCRCF projects include

• Advancing interdisciplinary research in childhood ethics: an ethnographic examination of best interests and moral agency

• Moral experiences of disabled children and their families: An ethnographic study of the intersection of best interests, children’s agency and family-centered care in pediatric rehabilitation

• The experiences of youth participating in a social development program for victims, witnesses and perpetrators of violence

• The moral experiences of children living in poverty: a focused ethnography

• Ethical problems in pediatric medicine: Developing interdisciplinary knowledge and action

• Ethics studies of childhood: Developing an interdisciplinary research program

• Pediatric Life-Support Decisions by Physicians and Nurses in France and Quebec

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Contact:Ìý

franco.carnevale [at] mcgill.ca (Email)