Melanie de Wit currently teaches Health Law, Risk Management and Ethics within the MHSc and MSc Quality Improvement & Patient Safety programs, and was awarded the Eugenie Stuart Teaching Award in 2022. She chairs Toronto Academic Health Sciences Network – Legal table, and has held leadership roles in academic hospitals in Toronto since 2015, currently as Chief Legal Officer at Unity Health Toronto. Melanie graduated from law school at the University of Toronto and completed a Masters in Public Health at Johns Hopkins.