Blair Maxston’s practice focuses on Professional Regulatory Law and Business Law for healthcare professionals. Blair acts for numerous professional regulatory bodies, committees and associations, providing advice regarding discipline investigations, hearings and appeals, governance issues, legislation development and interpretation, registration matters, standards of practice, codes of ethics, competence programs, bylaw and policy development and scope of practice and title issues. Blair also has had extensive involvement in assisting clients on Health Professions Act transition, compliance and implementation matters.

Blair acts for numerous owner-operated businesses, primarily in the healthcare field and provides advice on a wide range of matters, including professional corporations, practice sales and purchases, cost sharing arrangements, associate agreements and practice management issues.

Blair has written several articles on professional regulatory, risk management and HPA issues, and is the author of Understanding the Health Professions Act: A Practical Guide for Colleges, their Members and Healthcare Stakeholders, a comprehensive textbook concerning the HPA.

In addition to providing numerous workshops for regulatory organizations and healthcare professionals, Blair is also a sessional lecturer at Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) in the Denturist “Jurisprudence and Ethics Course”, and a regular lecturer for the University of Alberta Faculty of Dentistry “Practice Management Course” and the NAIT Medical Laboratory Technologist Program.

Awards & Distinctions

• "BV Peer Review Rated" (Martindale-Hubbell, 2008)

Professional & Community Service

• College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta - Public Member of Council (since 2002)
• Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, Dental Technologies Program; Jurisprudence and Ethics Course - Sessional Lecturer (since 1992)
• University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine, Department of Oral Health, Jurisprudence and Ethics and Practice Management courses - Annual Lecturer (since 1990)