Dr. Quentin Genuis is an emergency physician at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver, Canada. He serves as the physician ethicist for Providence Health Care, where he is involved in ethics consultations, education, and research. He holds a master’s degree from the School of Divinity at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. He is a Sessional Faculty and the Professional in Residence at Regent College in Vancouver, where he teaches on topics including medical ethics and addiction. He has published peer-reviewed articles in both science and bioethics fields, and is the author of his first book, Recovering People: Addiction, Personhood, and the Life of the Church.

Quentin loves teaching in a variety of academic, church, and clinical settings on topics including human freedom and agency, death and dying, theology of the body, virtue ethics, compassion, dignity, and care of persons with addictions. In his spare time, he loves growing dahlias and pole beans, reading fiction, visiting the Farmers’ market with his family.