By Rosalie Starzomski, RN, BN, MN, PhD
The CBS Lifetime Achievement Award is given annually to an individual whose demonstrated scholarship and/or leadership has significantly contributed to
health care ethics in Canada. The 2013 Winner is Dr. Janet Storch.
Dr. Janet (Jan) Storch. RN, BScN, MHSA, PhD (Soc), DSc (Hon), LLD (Hon) holds earned degrees from the University of Alberta, and Honorary degrees from Ryerson University and the University of Western Ontario. She taught as sessional instructor in nursing for nine years at the University of Alberta while her children were young, and thirteen years full time in health services administration moving through the ranks of Assistant to Full Professor. She was a founding member of the Bioethics Center at the University of Alberta (the John Dossetor Ethics Center) and joined the Canadian Bioethics Society in 1987.
In 1990 she became Dean of Nursing at the University of Calgary, and shortly thereafter she was appointed co-Chair of the Provincial Health Ethics Network (PHEN). She then became President of the Canadian Bioethics Society, following which she became a member of the Board of the National Council on Ethics in Human Research (NCEHR). Jan studied at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics in 1996 prior to becoming Director of the School of Nursing at the University of Victoria. From 1999-2001 she served as President of NCEHR and during a sabbatical year from UVIC she was Ethics Scholar in Residence at the Canadian Nurses Association. She was Co-Chair of the CBS Victoria Conference in Fall 2002.
She is Professor Emeritus at the University of Victoria, continues research and publication in nursing ethics, health ethics, and client safety in home care. Dr. Storch lead three revisions of the CNA Code of Ethics (1997, 2002, 2008), and she currently serves as Chair of the Health Canada and Public Health Agency of Canada Research Ethics Board.
From the 2013 Fall Communiqué — History of Nursing
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