Dr Melissa McCradden

Dr. Melissa McCradden is the Artificial Intelligence Director and Deputy Research Director with the Women's and Children's Health Network, and a Deputy Director and The Hospital Research Foundation (THRF) Group Fellow at the Australian Institute for Machine Learning at the University of Adelaide. She is an Adjunct Scientist with the SickKids Research Institute and member of the SickKids Research Ethics Board in Toronto, Canada. Dr McCradden serves as an Associate Editor for the journal Research Ethics and on the Advisory Board for the journal Patterns. Dr. McCradden's expertise is in the development of ethical frameworks derived from clinical and technical knowledge grounded in policy, law, and moral theory. She has published on algorithmic bias, responsible clinical evaluation of healthcare machine learning, and clinical integration of AI. Dr. McCradden holds a PhD in Neuroscience from McMaster University, a Master's in Bioethics from the University of Toronto, and was the inaugural Postdoctoral Fellow in AI Ethics at SickKids and Vector Institute for AI.