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Victoria Seavilleklein, PhD, HEC-C, is a Clinical Ethicist with , with the primary responsibility of serving the Central Zone. Her role includes ethics consultation, education, policy review, and support for organizational initiatives. Victoria is a Clinical Lecturer with the John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre at the ß÷ßäÉçÇø and a regular lecturer at Red Deer Polytechnic. Prior to working with AHS, she was the Ethicist and Policy Director with the Provincial Health Ethics Network.

Victoria holds a PhD in Philosophy, specializing in Bioethics, from Dalhousie University, an MA in Philosophy from the University of Calgary, and a BA in Philosophy from the University of Victoria. She completed a clinical practicum through Associated Medical Services in multiple health centres in Halifax, Nova Scotia, a doctoral fellowship in Ethics of Health Research and Policy through the Canadian Institute of Health Research, and a post-doctoral fellowship in Clinical and Organizational Ethics at the Joint Centre for Bioethics at the University of Toronto. She earned the designation of HEC-C upon successfully meeting the requirements of the Heathcare Ethics Consultant-Certified program in November, 2021.

Victoria drafted the ethics framework for the 2nd edition of the Canadian Tri-Council Policy Statement on the Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans and was a member of the Clinical Trials Committee with the Health Research Ethics Board of ß÷ßäÉçÇø (formerly the Research Ethics Review Committee with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of ß÷ßäÉçÇø) from 2009-2017. She is currently the elected Membership Officer on the Canadian Bioethics Society Board of Directors.

Selected Publications

Seavilleklein, V., Flynn, J., Frolic, A., Wagner, F., & Katarina, L-A. (2024). Do Clinical Ethicists Improve with
Experience? And, If So, How Would We Know? Canadian Journal of Bioethics, 7(2-3),
209-213. DOI:

Seavilleklein, V., Porter, A., & Haidar, H. (2024). National Engagement in Canadian Bioethics: Insights from
the CBS-SCB 2023 Workshop and Community Forum. Canadian Journal of Bioethics, 7(2-
3): 1-3.

Seavilleklein, Victoria. (Fall 2020). Commentary on Bell: Refocusing the Lens,’ Shaping a More Just Bioethics: A Celebration of the Work of Susan Sherwin. International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, 13(2).

Seavilleklein, V. (January 2009). Challenging the Rhetoric of Choice in Prenatal Screening. Bioethics, 23(1), 68-77.

Seavilleklein, V. & Sherwin, S. (Winter 2007). The Myth of the Gendered Chromosome: Sex
Selection and the Social Interest. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 16(1).