Dr. Lilian U. Thorpe, MSc, MD, PhD, FRCPC

Dr. Thorpe is a geriatric psychiatrist at the Saskatchewan Health Authority and is a professor of community health and epidemiology as well as of psychiatry at the University of Saskatchewan.

Dr. Thorpe is actively involved in research, teaching and supervision related to medical assistance in dying (MAID) and has been involved with MAID assessment and provision throughout Saskatchewan since 2016.

She was a member of the Health Canada MAID Practice Standards Task Group, which prepared the model practice standard for MAID as well as the guidance document, Advice to the Profession. In addition to her membership on the Saskatoon Health Region committee that developed regional MAID policy, she has contributed to the development of guidelines by the Canadian Association of MAID Assessors and Providers as well as the Canadian MAID Curriculum.

In 2022, Dr. Thorpe appeared before the Canadian parliamentary Special Joint Committee on MAID as an invited witness on advanced consent to MAID during its statutory review of the provisions of the Criminal Code relating to MAID and their application.