Mary Jane Dykeman

Mary Jane Dykeman is a managing partner at INQ Law. In addition to data law, she is a long-standing health lawyer.

Her data practice focuses on privacy, artificial intelligence (AI), cyber preparedness and response, and data governance. She regularly advises on use and disclosure of identifiable and de-identified data. Mary Jane applies a strategic, risk and innovation lens to data and emerging technologies. She helps clients identify the data they hold, understand how to use it within the law, and how to innovate responsibly.

In her health law practice, Mary Jane focuses on clinical and enterprise risk, privacy and information management, consent, capacity and substitute decision-making, and counseling through difficult situations, including at the end of life.

She has acted as in-house counsel to two Toronto teaching hospitals and was instrumental in the development of Ontario’s health privacy legislation. Mary Jane regularly consults on large data initiatives and use of data for health research and quality purposes.

Her consulting work extends to modernizing privacy legislation and digital societies, and she works with Boards, CEOs and CIOs on the emerging risks and trends in data. Mary Jane regularly speaks on AI, cyber risk and how to better engage and build trust with clients and customers whose data is at play. She is also a frequent speaker and writer on health law and data law.

Recent Experience:

• Principal author, CMHA Ontario PHIPA Toolkit
• Principal author (with the Advocacy Centre for the Elderly), of two Law Commission of Ontario research papers on advance care planning and healthcare consent
• Principal author, The Change Foundation, report on caregiver barriers due to privacy and health care consent
• Principal author, AdvantAge Ontario toolkits on medical assistance in dying, cannabis Insights & Recognition
• Co-author, Canada: Cybersecurity Comparative Guide (2020)
• Founding author, Risk Management in Canadian Health Care, Canadian Health Law Practice Manual

Awards and Accolades:

• Best Lawyers in Canada - Health care law (2014-2022)
• Ontario Bar Association Susan Hillary Davidson Award: Excellence in Health Law (2017)

Osgoode Professional Development:

• Recognized for excellence in continuing legal education

Affiliations:

• Canadian Bar Association, Health Law Section (Member)Internet Society (Canada) Community involvement
• Chair, Alzheimer Society of TorontoDeputy Chair, Canadian Blood Services Research Ethics Board