Melissa McCradden

Melissa McCradden is a Bioethicist at The Hospital for Sick Children and a Project Investigator with the Genetics & Genome Biology at the Peter Gilgan Centre for Learning & Excellence. She co-teaches Empirical Bioethics as an Assistant Professor at Dalla Lana School of Public Health. She holds a PhD in Neuroscience (McMaster University) and a Master’s in Bioethics (University of Toronto). She was the inaugural postdoctoral fellow in the Ethics of AI in Healthcare with SickKids and Vector Institute. She has published on algorithmic bias, responsible clinical evaluation of healthcare machine learning, and clinical integration of AI. She participates in the CONSORT and SPIRIT AI Working Group which created the reporting guidelines for AI clinical trials, and is involved with a number of other reporting guideline initiatives for research and health AI. Her research focuses on paediatric bioethics and the ethics of healthcare machine learning and precision medicine.