Mélanie E. de Wit  

Mélanie de Wit advises and represents hospitals and healthcare providers in areas including risk management, corporate governance, physician privileging, contracts, patient safety initiatives, mental health and medical negligence. She regularly appears on behalf of clients before tribunals such as the Consent and Capacity Board, Ontario Review Board and Health Professions Appeal and Review Board, and at all levels of Ontario courts. She is a member of the Health Law Group in the Toronto office of Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, and a member of the Firm's Team North initiative.

• Represents healthcare facilities in hearings before the Ontario Review Board and Consent and Capacity Board and related appeals on matters involving substitute decision-making, involuntary admissions and end-of-life care.
• Represents hospitals in hearings before the Health Professions Appeal and Review Board, and advises hospitals with respect to physician and confidentiality matters.
• Advises hospitals on risk management matters and patient safety initiatives.
• Advises hospitals on corporate and professional staff bylaws.
• Acts for hospitals and healthcare providers in medical negligence claims.

• Speaker, "End of Life Care: Legal and Ethical Challenges," Healthcare Insurance Reciprocal of Canada, 2012.
• Speaker, "Managing Risk and Liability in Reprocessing," Ontario Hospital Association Medical Devices Conference, 2010.
• Author, "Can Pierringer Partially Settle Canadian Class Actions?" Québec Bar Association Conference on Class Actions, 2008 (with Barry Glaspell).
• Author, "The African private sector steps in to fill the drug gap," The Lancet, 2007, 370(9589): 722-23 (with S. Perkins).