adrienne shnier

managing partner, lawyer

Dr. Adrienne Shnier, B.A. (Hons.), M.A., Ph.D., J.D. is a Lawyer and Notary Public in Toronto, Canada. Adrienne provides professional legal, research, policy consulting, and strategy services in the health and regulatory spheres to law firms, companies, regulated health professions associations, health care providers, and individuals. Adrienne’s experience as a critical health policy researcher, published academic, university professor, and lawyer means that you receive unique evidence-based, informed, experience-based perspectives, and fresh thinking. Our access to, and understanding of not only the law, but also academic literature and policy helps to formulate our strategy to drive your interests forward.

Adrienne completed her Articles in downtown Toronto at a well-established civil litigation firm, which specializes in personal injury, medical malpractice, and commercial litigation. Adrienne has represented clients at the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in personal injury and commercial matters, at Small Claims Court in contract disputes, and has assisted clients at the Court of Appeal for Ontario in the areas of product liability and health law.

Adrienne is also the Founder & CEO of Apply Yourself: The Advancement Spot™. Apply Yourself provides personalized one-on-one support and group workshops for students and professionals in their academic program applications, professional career applications, and interview processes in a collaborative, supportive, engaged, skills-building environment. At Apply Yourself, we help students and professionals, alike, build lives beyond their wildest dreams.

Adrienne is Program Director & Health Law Faculty at Osgoode Hall Law School in the Professional LLM in Health Law. Adrienne is an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Graduate Studies, School of Health Policy & Management, and School of Global Health in the Faculty of Health at York University.

Adrienne’s research focus is pharmaceutical policy, regulation, education and promotion, health policy, governance, financial conflict of interest relationships, fraud, and patient safety. She is a Research Fellow alumna of the Pharmaceutical Policy Research Collaboration (PPRC). Adrienne is the author and co-author of peer-reviewed book chapters and articles in health, policy, and law journals and has presented her research at conferences and medical schools both across Canada and internationally, including at the University of Toronto, University of British Columbia, McMaster University, and Georgetown University.

Adrienne supervises the research of both graduate and undergraduate students at York University.

EDUCATION

Juris Doctor (J.D.), 2019, Osgoode Hall Law School
Service: Editor-in-Chief, Osgoode Health Law Association (2017-2019)

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), 2016, Health Policy & Equity, York University
Service: Co-Chair, Health Graduate Student Association (2013-2016)

Master of Arts (M.A.), 2012, Health Policy & Equity, York University

Honours Bachelor of Arts (B.A., Hons.), 2011, Health & Society, York University
Summa Cum Laude

AWARDS

Osgoode Hall Law School: Sir Jack Jacob Prize in the Administration of Justice, Administration of Civil Justice: Class Actions (2019)

York University: Gina Feldberg Award (2009)

York University: Health & Society Book Prize (2009, 2008)

BAR ADMISSION

Ontario, 2020

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

Law Society of Ontario
The Advocates’ Society
Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research (CAHSPR)

publications

Shnier A. (2020). “Fraudulent misrepresentation and fraudulent concealment in products liability in tort law in Canada: The special relationship between drug companies and consumers in the context of fraudulent misrepresentation and fraudulent concealment of data.” Accounting, Finance, Sustainability, Governance & Fraud: Theory and Application. Kimyet Tunca Caliyurt, editor. Singapore: Springer.

Elder K, Turner K, Cosgrove L, Lexchin J, Shnier A, Moore A, Straus S, Thombs B. (2020). Reporting of financial conflicts of interest by Canadian clinical practice guideline producers: A descriptive study. CMAJ, 192(23), E617-625.

Morgan S, Daw J, Greyson D, Shnier A, Holbrook A, Lexchin J. (2020). Variation in the prescription drugs covered by health systems across high-income countries: A review of and recommendations for the academic literature. Health Policy, 124(3), 231-238.

Shnier A. (2018). Do you have the heart? A cross-border comparative case study analysis of certification legislation and motions to certify Vioxx class action lawsuits in Ontario and the United States. Canadian Class Action Review, 15(1), 169-199.

Lexchin J, Kohler J, Gagnon MA, Crombie J, Thacker P, Shnier A. (2018). Combating corruption in the Pharmaceutical Arena. Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, 3(3), 234-239.

Grundy Q, Habibi R, Shnier A, Mayes C, Lipworth W. (2018). Decoding Disclosure: Comparing conflict of interest transparency policy among the United States, France, and Australia. Health Policy, 124(3), 231-238.

Shnier A, Lexchin J. (2017). Continuing medical education and pharmaceutical industry involvement: An evaluation of policies adopted by Canadian professional medical associations. International Journal of Risk and Safety in Medicine, 23(1-2), 1-6.

Rosenberg H, Shnier A. (2017). Hidden in plain sight: A letter in response to “The Wider Role of Regulatory Scientists”. The BMJ, 358, j3437.

Shnier A, Lexchin J, Romero M, Brown K. (2016). Reporting of financial conflicts of interest in clinical practice guidelines: A case study analysis from the Canadian Medical Association Infobase. BMC Health Services Research, 16(383), 1-8.

Shnier A, Lexchin J, Mintzes B, Jutel A, Holloway K. (2013). Too Few, Too Weak: Conflict of Interest Policies at Canadian Medical Schools. PLOS ONE, 8(7), e68633.