Helen Sharp, PhD, CCC-SLP, serves as Research Facilitator in the Interdisciplinary Research Lab in Ethics, Palliative, and End-of-Life Care at the University of British Columbia. Her interest in the role of speech-language pathologists in resolving ethical issues in practice led her to pursue training as a Clinical Fellow at the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, University of Chicago. Dr. Sharp has taught bioethics across disciplines including speech-language pathology, audiology, medicine, nursing, and dentistry. She is Director and Professor Emeritus of the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Pacific University and previously served as a speech-language pathologist at Loma Linda University Medical Center and as faculty at Western Michigan University and the University of Iowa.
