Avanti Garde
Student-at-Law
Avanti Garde joined Moldofsky Professional Corporation as a student-at-law in January 2026. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Biomedical Science from the University of Ottawa in 2015, her Masters in Public Health from Queens University in 2017, and her Bachelor’s of Law degree from Leeds University in 2022.
Avanti has over eight years of experience in health privacy, working previously with the provincial government, hospitals, and private corporations. Avanti has been certified as a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/C) from the International Association of Privacy Professionals.
Michelle Moldofsky
Founder, Moldofsky Professional Corporation
Michelle is a results-oriented health lawyer with over 20 years' experience who provides astute legal counsel, develops proactive policies and embeds best practices for leading Canadian not-for-profit, healthcare and research institutions to support stakeholders, mitigate risk and deliver outstanding care.
Michelle is formerly General Counsel at a large academic hospital in Toronto. She has her Bachelor of Arts degree in Religious Studies from McGill University, her law degree from Queen's University and her Master of Laws in Health Law from York University.
Michelle strives to build internal capacity for her clients and has repeatedly transformed legal departments and legal processes with a commitment to creating standardization, consistency and tracking of metrics, thereby reducing reliance on outsourcing legal work and increasing responsiveness to internal clients. Her approach to dispute resolution is to work collaboratively with management in crafting reasonable, fair and effective responses and solutions to difficult and complex issues. Michelle brings a breadth of experience in health law and corporate/commercial law, including in consent and capacity, privileges, procurement, privacy, contracts, leases, human rights, criminal, employment and research related matters affecting healthcare and research institutions.