Dianne Godkin is Senior Ethicist at The Credit Valley Hospital and Trillium Health Centre, Mississauga and is the Lead for the Regional Ethics Program. She is cross-appointed to the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Toronto as Assistant Professor (status) and as an Associate Member of the School of Graduate Studies. Her prior education includes a Post Graduate Clinical Ethics Fellowship with the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics, Doctoral and Master's Degrees in Nursing from the University of Alberta, Edmonton and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing Degree from the University of Western Ontario, London. sb