Meet the Team

Founder, Principal Consultant

Dr. Rebecca Greenberg is a nurse and bioethicist with two decades of experience in healthcare. Dr. Greenberg has spent most of her career working in variety of settings including the hospital sector, child welfare, and long term care, with a focus in academic hospitals including The Hospital for Sick Children and Sinai Health. She is committed to helping individuals and organizations navigate ethically difficult decisions. Dr. Greenberg has acted as a Chair and Vice-Chair to several Research Ethics Boards. Dr. Greenberg has a proven track record in research as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto. She developed and directed The Fellowship in Neonatal-Perinatal Ethics with the Toronto Centre for Neonatal Health and the University of Toronto – the first of its kind in Canada. Dr. Greenberg is committed to education and sharing her research through speaking internationally, publishing research papers, editing books, and being featured in the media.

• Paediatrics & Child Welfare

• Women’s and Infant’s Health

• End-of-Life Care

• Moral Distress & Resiliency

• Substitute Decision Making

• Geriatrics

• Reproductive Health

• Pandemic Ethics

• Acute Care

• Priority Setting

• Research Ethics

• Organ Transplantation

College of Nurses of Ontario

Canadian Bioethics Society

Canadian Association of Practicing Healthcare Ethicists

Canadian Association of Research Ethics Boards

Canadian Paediatric Society

American Society for Bioethics and Humanities

The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada

PhD - Bioethics, University of Toronto

BScN - Nursing, University of Toronto

BA - Psychology, The University of Manitoba

Post-Doctorate Fellowship - Clinical and Organizational Ethics, University of Toronto

Full curriculum vitae available upon request

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

1. Tam V, Allat P, Greenberg RA. Evaluating the Toronto Region Hospitals COVID-19 Visitor Policy using Accountability for Reasonableness. Healthcare Quarterly. July/August 2022.

2. Rosen B, Preisman M, Read H, Chaukos D, Greenberg RA, Jeffs L, Maunder R, Wiesenfeld L. Providers’ perspectives on implementing Resilience Coaching for Healthcare Workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. BMC Health Services Research. 2022; 22, Article number: 780.

3. Rosen B, Preisman M, Read H, Chaukos D, Greenberg RA, Jeffs L, Maunder R, Wiesenfeld L. Resilience coaching for healthcare workers: Experiences of receiving collegial support during the COVID-19 pandemic. General Hospital Psychiatry. 2022; 75, P 83-7.

4. Verma A, Pai M, Saha S, Bean S, Fralick M, Gibson JL, Greenberg RA, Kwan JL, Lapointe-Shaw L, Tang T, Morris AM, Razak F. Managing drug shortages during a pandemic: Tocilizumab and COVID-19 CMAJ, May 25, 2021 193 (21) E771-E776.

5. Zipursky JS, Greenberg RA, Maxwell Cand Bogler T. Pregnancy, breastfeeding and the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine: an ethics-based framework for shared decision-making. CMAJ March 01, 2021; 193 (9) E312-E314.

6. Greenberg RA, Aviva Goldberg, Samantha Anthony, Daniel Z Buchman, Sean Delaney, Vanessa Gruben, Sandra Holdsworth, Bernard Le Foll, Marianna Leung, Dale Lien, Marie-Josee Lynch, Nazia Selzner, Jennifer A Chandler, Marie-Chantal Fortin. Canadian Society of Transplantation White Paper Ethical and Legal Considerations for Alcohol and Cannabis Use in Solid Organ Listing and Allocation. Transplantation December; 2020.

7. Hellmers A, Dryden- Palmer K, Greenberg RA. Moral Distress: Developing Strategies from Experience. Nursing Ethics. April 2020.

8. Greenberg RA, Ballesteros-Gallego F, Allard J, Fortin MC. Organ Transplantation for Foreign Nationals in Canada: A Survey of Transplant Professionals. Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease. 2019; 6:1–11.

9. Bianchi A, Greenberg RA. Deceased Directed Donation: Considering the Ethical Permissibility in a Multi-Cultural Setting. Bioethics. 2019; 33(2):230-327.

10. Foe G, Hellmann H, Greenberg RA. Parental Moral Distress and Moral Schism in the Neonatal ICU. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry. 2018; Sep;15(3):319-325.

11. Weiss M, Hornby L, Rochwerg B, van Manen M, Dhanani S, Sivarajan VB, Appleby A, Bennett M, Buchman D, Farrell C, Goldberg A, Greenberg RA, et al. Canadian Guidelines for Controlled Pediatric Donation after Circulatory Determination of Death - Summary Report. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. 2017; Nov; 18(11):1035–1046.

12. Shemie SD, Simpson C, Blackmer J, MacDonald S, Dhanani S, et al. Ethics Guide Recommendations for Organ-Donation–Focused Physicians: Endorsed by the Canadian Medical Association. Transplantation. 2017;101:41–S47.

13. Fantus S, Greenberg RA, Muskat B, Katz D. Exploring Moral Distress for Hospital Social Workers. British Journal of Social Work. 2017; 47(8): 2273–2290.

14. Fortin MC, Buchman D, Wright L, Chandler J, Delaney S, Fairhead T, Gallaher R, Grant D, Greenberg RA et al. Public Solicitation of Anonymous Organ Donors: A Position Paper by the Canadian Society of Transplantation. Transplantation, 2017; Dec;101(1):17–20.

15. Greenberg RA, Kim C, Stolte H, Hellmann J, Zlotnik Shaul R, Valani R, Scolnik D. “Developing a Bioethics Curriculum for Medical Students from Divergent Geopolitical Regions.” BMC Medical Education 2016; July;16:193.

16. Greenberg RA, Weingarten K. When Health Care Professionals Say “’More” And Parents Say “Enough.’” Paediatrics and Child Health, 2015; Apr; 20(3): 131–134.

17. Greenberg RA, Anstey K, Macri R, Bean S, Heesters A, Zlotnik-Shaul R. A Survey of Clinical Ethics Consultation Practices and Procedures. Healthcare Ethics Committee Forum 2014; 26(2): 135-146.

18. Windsor S, Bensimon C, Anstey K, Cox C, Chidwick P, Fowler R, Greenberg RA, et al. Identifying Prioritization Criteria to Supplement Critical Care Triage Protocols for Allocation of Ventilators During a Pandemic Influenza. Healthcare Quarterly. 2014;17(2):44-51.

19. Campbell M, Greenberg RA, Wright L, Grant D. How Young is Too Young to be a Living Donor? American Journal of Transplantation 2013; 13(7) pp.1643–1649.

20. Barbisian C. Greenberg RA, Zlotnik Shaul R. The Social Media Effect: Examining Usage in Contentious Healthcare Cases. Journal of Clinical Research and Bioethics. 2013; 4(2).

Books

1. Ethical Issues in Pediatric Organ Transplantation. Greenberg RA, Goldberg A, Rodríguez-Arias D (editors). Switzerland: Springer; 2016.

Book Chapters

1. Fortin, MC, Greenberg RA. Should Transplantation be Offered to Pediatric Foreign Nationals? In: Greenberg RA, Goldberg A, Rodriguez-Arias , editors. Ethical Issues in Paediatric Organ Transplantation. Switzerland: Springer; 2016. P. 237- 257.

2. Greenberg RA, Campbell M, Wright L. Legal and Ethical Issues in Child-and Family-Centred Care: Transplantation” In: Law and Ethics in Paediatric Patient and Family Centred Care. Zlotnik Shaul R, editor. Switzerland: Springer, 2014.p. 245-267.

Opinion Pieces

1. Rehman R, Chauhan N and Greenberg RA. Beneficent Paternalism in The NICU: Improving Shared Decision-Making. November 28, 2022 · by impact ethics

2. Greenberg RA. Stall N. Ethical Policy For Visitors To Long-Term-Care Homes Needed. Toronto Star. June 29, 2020

Online Resources

1. Wright L, Buchman DZ, Anthony S, Fortin MC, Greenberg RA, Haun M, Toews M, and the Canadian National Transplant Research Program Team. Ethical Issues in Organ and Hematopoietic Stem Cell Donation and Transplantation. Canadian Donation and Transplant Research Program. Fast Policy Facts: Ethics. December 2014. Available at: https://www.cntrp.ca/fast-facts

2. Wright L, Buchman DZ, Chandler J, Shultz K, Fortin MC, Greenberg RA, Hartell D, and the Canadian National Transplantation Research Program Team. Public Solicitations for Solid Organs and Hematopoietic Stem Cells from Living Donors. Canadian Donation and Transplant Research Program. Fast Policy Facts: Ethics. September 2015.

On-line Magazines

1. Greenberg RA. Ethical Complexities in Public Solicitation for Organ Donors. The Perspective. The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario. November 2015.

2. Greenberg RA. Ethics Corner: An Overview of Capacity Assessments, Outlook Feature, Providence Healthcare, Toronto, Ontario. December 2009.

3. Greenberg RA. Ethics Corner: A Review of Power of Attorneys for Personal Care, Outlook Feature, Providence Healthcare, Toronto, Ontario. November 2009.

4. Greenberg RA. Framework for Conflict Resolution, Providence Healthcare, Toronto, Ontario. November 2009.

5. Greenberg RA. Ethics Corner: A Review of Advance Care Planning, Outlook Feature, Providence Healthcare, Toronto, Ontario. August 2009.