Bio
Thaddeus Mason Pope is an expert on medical law and clinical ethics. He focuses on patient rights and healthcare decision making, especially at the end of life. While Professor Pope serves in a range of consulting capacities, he has been particularly influential through extensive high-impact scholarship. Ranked among the Top 20 most cited health law scholars in the United States and the Top 50 in the world, Pope has more than 300 law, medicine, and bioethics publications. A fellow of The Hastings Center and previously both a Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Health Law, Policy, and Ethics at the University of Ottawa, and a visiting scholar at the Brocher Foundation in Switzerland; Pope is now a Professor at Mitchell Hamline School of Law in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Especially relevant to this webinar, Pope has been a regular consultant to the American Clinicians Academy on Medical Aid in Dying, an advisor to other end-of-life advocacy organizations, a frequent witness testifying in legislative hearings on MAID, and an expert witness in litigation concerning assisted dying.