Thierry Daboval, M.D., FRCPC, FAAP, MSc(c)
Thierry Daboval is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Ottawa and practices at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) and The Ottawa Hospital in Ottawa, Canada. He received his M.D. degree from the University of Sherbrooke and completed his pediatric residency and post-doctoral fellowship in Neonatology at Saint Justine's Hospital (University of Montreal, Canada). He is currently the medical Director of the Neonatal Follow-Up Clinic's multidisciplinary Program at CHEO and is very involved with the Canadian Neonatal Follow-Up Network (CNFUN). He is finishing his Master's in Health Science, focusing on how to help parents participate in shared decision-making when there is a risk that their child might be born at the limit of viability. His main clinical and ethical research interests are the fostering of more empathetic communication in parent-physician relationships, especially in the settings of challenging ethical decision-making, and transmitting those skills to trainees. In this perspective, in collaboration with colleagues, he initiated the Neonatal Ethics Teaching Program (NETP) project, looking at improving teaching in ethics, professionalism, and communication skills in challenging clinical situations in Neonatal Perinatal Medicine (NPM) at the University of Ottawa.