Overview

Naveen Hassan is Associate General Counsel at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto. She provides legal and risk management advice to the hospital's administrative and clinical leaders and works closely with clinical teams on the legal issues that arise in the delivery of care. Her areas of expertise include health care matters and mental health law, with a focus on children's mental health. SickKids also identifies her as Director, Privacy and Risk Management, reflecting responsibility for privacy and institutional risk alongside her general counsel role. Before joining SickKids, Naveen was a lawyer at a national Canadian law firm. She serves as Secretary of Stella's Place, a Toronto organization that supports young adults and works to change the mental health landscape. In that governance role, she contributes legal and risk-management experience to a nonprofit board. Her current professional work combines hospital counsel, privacy, risk management and health-law experience.

Practice Areas

• Health Law
• Mental Health Law
• Privacy Law
• Risk Management

Bar Information

Called to the bar: 2015 (ON)