Marie Nicolini, MD, PhD

Marie Nicolini, MD, PhD is an ethicist and psychiatrist whose research addresses moral questions related to mental disorders and their implications for medicine and public health. She was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institutes of Health Department of Bioethics, a visiting scholar at Georgetown University, and held a research grant from Belgium's public research council. Her work has been published in journals such as the British Journal of Psychiatry, American Journal of Bioethics, Journal of Medical Ethics, and Psychological Medicine.

Dr. Nicolini testified as an expert witness to the Canadian Parliament regarding the country's medical assistance in dying law, and has served in various ethics advisory roles for governmental and nonprofit organizations. She earned an MD and a PhD in bioethics and completed her psychiatry residency at KU Leuven University in Belgium. She is a joint fellow with the Harvard Safra Center for Ethics.