Maeghan Toews is a Research Associate at the Health Law Institute in the Faculty of Law at the University of Alberta. Her research interests include examining the legal and ethical issues associated with genetics and genomics, organ donation and transplantation, rare diseases, and biomedical research. Maeghan is a recipient of the prestigious James Kreppner Fellowship awarded by Canadian Blood Services for her project, “Legal and Policy Strategies to Optimize Organ Donation in Alberta” where she examined issues such as incentives for organ donation, donation after cardio-circulatory death, presumed consent, and family override of consent for deceased donation.