Brent represents health care organizations and professionals in litigation, administrative hearings and public inquiries, and provides strategic, legal and risk management advice with particular emphasis on healthcare provider-hospital relationships, patient safety, corporate governance, health information access and privacy, research regulation, and policy and legislative development. Brent is Chair of the Legal and Regulatory Advisory Committee of the Canadian Patient Safety Institute, Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Faculties of Pharmacy, Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, and member of the Alberta Cancer Board Research Ethics Board. He has been national chair of the Canadian Bar Association Health Law Section, Executive Director of the Health Law Institute, and member of the Privacy Advisory Committee of the Canadian Institutes for Health Research. Brent has an LL.M. from Cambridge University and was admitted to the Alberta Bar in 1985; appointed Q.C. 2006.