Researcher

Title

• Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Sherbrooke 
• Associate Researcher, Centre de recherche Azrieli du CHU Sainte-Justine

Laboratory

Law, Ethics and Care Partnerships in Pediatrics

• Diploma in Clinical Ethics, University of Montreal, 2022
• PhD in Law, Université de Montréal/Université Paris II, 2017
• Diploma in Pedagogy, Université du Québec à Montréal, 2011
• Master's degree in Sociology, Université du Québec à Montréal, 2010
• B.A. in Sociology, Université du Québec à Montréal, 2008

Professor Lavoie has a multidisciplinary background in law, clinical ethics, pedagogy and sociology, including a Banting Fellowship. He has done research at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at Oxford University in the United Kingdom and at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. He is a regular researcher at the Centre de recherches société, droit et religions (SoDRUS) and an associate researcher at the CHU Sainte-Justine Research Centre. His research focuses on the pluralism of values in the field of pediatric care.  

• Clinical Ethics
• Patient Partnership in the Emergency Setting
• Organizational culture 
• Consent to care
• Authorization for care
• Religious beliefs

Career Summary

Bertrand Lavoie is a professor at the Faculty of Law of the Université de Sherbrooke where he teaches and conducts research on human rights, freedom of religion, equality rights and pluralism of values, particularly within health institutions. Professor Lavoie teaches in the graduate program in Health Law and Policy. He specializes in conducting qualitative empirical research in hospital contexts.

Awards and Distinctions

• Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2019-2020 competition [$140,000].
• FRQSC Paul-Gérin Lajoie Emerging Star Award (January 2019 competition); award for the book La fonctionnaire et le hijab (PUM, 2018) [$1,000].
• Author Award for the 2018 Scholarly Edition from the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences for the book La fonctionnaire et le hijab (Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 2018) [$8,000].
• Honorable mention received from the Board of Directors of Cégep André-Laurendeau, Montreal, for excellence in research and institutional involvement (2018).
• Postdoctoral fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), 2017-2018 competition [$90,000].
• FRQSC postdoctoral fellowship, 2017-2018 competition [$90,000] (declined).
• Candidate selected by the Faculty of Law for the 2017 Best Thesis Award competition of the University of Montreal (only one application/year).
• Thesis included on the UdeM FESP Dean's Honor List (only one nomination/year) (2017).
• Alan B. Gold Scholarship, Faculty of Law, University of Montreal [$25,000] (2015-16).

Financing

• 2021-2026. "Politics of Religious Diversity in Hospitals", Insight Grant Program (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada), Collaborator; Pre Amélie Barras (principal investigator), Pre Andrea Paras (co-investigator) and Pre Lori Beaman (collaborator) ($97,150). 
• 2020-2023. "Equality rights, value pluralism and clinical ethics: collaborative research in a Quebec pediatric hospital". Banting Postdoctoral Program (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada), Principal Investigator ($140,000). Extended project (Faculty start-up fund). Dr. Antoine Payot, Dr. Michel Duval, Dr. Nathalie Gaucher, Marie-Claude Levasseur, Me Anne de Ravinel, Dr. Marc-Antoine Marquis, Dr. Nadia Roumeliotis and Prof. Daniel Weinstock. 
• 2020-2021. "Experiences of emergency department caregivers during the COVID-19 pandemic: a prospective qualitative study", CHU Sainte-Justine Research Center. Co-investigator, with Dr. Nathalie Gaucher (principal investigator), Pre Claude-Julie Bourque, Maryse Lagacé, Dr. Évelyne Doyon-Trottier, Dr. Anne-Josée Côté, Manasi Rajagopal, Valérie Bourdeau, Dr. Brett Burstein, Dr. Pierre Desaulniers, Maryse Lagacé, Dr. Véronique Castonguay, Érika Fontaine-Pagé, Dr. Simon Berthelot, Dr. Samina Ali, Dr. Graham Thompson, and Dr. Ran Golman (20 255 $). 
• 2020-2021, "Perceptions of practice changes by emergency department resuscitation care team members during the COVID-19 pandemic", Emergency Department, Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur de Montréal. With Dr. Véronique Castonguay (principal investigator), Dr. Virginie Labossière, Dr. Véribile Huard, Dr. Alexis Cournoyer and Pr Patrick Lavoie (co-investigators). Study of changes in practices and new intervention protocols in cardiac resuscitation within the emergency department team of the Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur de Montréal - Université de Montréal ($3,000).  

Presentations

• Lavoie, Bertrand, "Religious Values and Dying in the Hospital: Ethical and Legal Challenges in Medical Assistance in Dying", Research Center for Society, Law and Religion, University of Sherbrooke, June 10, 2022.  
• Lavoie, Bertrand, "The challenge of illness: religious freedom of parents in end-of-life pediatric care", Institut for Religious Studies, University of Montréal, April, 5 2022. 
• Lavoie, Bertrand and Gaucher, Nathalie, "Religious Accommodation in Emergency Rooms: A Practical Harmonization of Differences", Research Center for Public Law, University of Montreal, Novembre 29, 2021. 
• Lavoie, Bertrand, Levasseur, Marie-Claude and Ravinel, Anne de, "Is the law always fair? Reflections on the consent of minors in end-of-life situations" Faculty of law, University of Sherbrooke, Novembre 3, 2021.
• Lavoie, Bertrand, "Vulnerability and Human Relations: Non-religious Responses to Religious Requests in Emergency Departments", Non religion and Secularity Research Network Conference, Université d’Ottawa, June 18, 2021. 

Publications

• Lavoie, Bertrand, « La laïcité aux urgences : les obligations religieuses dans le quotidien hospitalier », Sociologie et sociétés, (accepté).
• Lavoie, Bertrand, « La salle d’urgence comme lieu du droit : la liberté de religion dans le contexte pratique et clinique des soins critiques», Revue de droit de l’Université de Sherbrooke, vol. 51, n° 2-3, 405-430.
• Lavoie, Bertrand, Bourque, Claude Julie, Castonguay, Véronique, Doyon-Trottier, Evelyne, Lagacé,Maryse, Fontaine-Pagé, Érika, Burstein, Brett, Ali, Samina, Rajagopal, Manasi, Goldman, Ran, Thompson, Graham, Côté, Anne-Josée, Desaulniers, Pierre, Berthelot, Simon et Gaucher, Nathalie, "Responsibility to Care : Emergency Providers’ Experiences during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Canada", Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine, (2022) 24-5, 482-492.
• Gaucher, Nathalie, Doyon-Trottier, Evelyne, Côté, Anne-Josée, Ali, Huma, Bourque, Claude-Julie, Lavoie, Bertrand et Ali, Samina, "Canadian emergency physicians’ experiences and perspectives during the COVID-19 pandemic: a survey study", Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine, (2021) 23-4, 466-474.