Visiting Scholars
Visitors to NELS deliver formal lectures, engage in formal or informal discussions and meet with our team members to share ideas and mutual interests.
NELS regularly hosts experts in various aspects of palliative and end of life care to present their research in Halifax. Below is a list of a number of these visiting scholars.
Presentation slides are linked as PDFs when available.
2013
David Currow
Professor, Palliative & Supportive Services, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia
Chief Cancer Officer, New South Wales, and Chief Executive Officer of the Cancer Institute, New South Wales, Australia
October 2013
Presented:
- Update in Palliative Medicine: Evidence to Practice for the Internist
- Building a Learning Health Care System: Practice-Based Evidence
- Rapid Pharmacovigilance: Lessons Learned
- Shared Care: Patient, Family Physician and Specialist
- Models of Palliative and Supportive Cancer Care
2012
2012
Kelli Stajduhar
Co-Associate Director Research & Scholarship, School of Nursing, Centre on Aging,
University of Victoria
2011
2011
Mary Lou Kelley
Professor, School of Social Work and Gerontology, Lakehead University, Ontario
January 2011
Presented:
2010
Vickie Baracos
Professor, Palliative Care Medicine, Department of Oncology, University of Alberta
Cross Cancer Institute
November 2010
Presented:
- Prognostic Factors in Patients with Advanced Cancer: Use of the Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment in Survival Prediction
- Cancer cachexia in the age of obesity: Clinical and experimental approaches
Allan Kellehear
Former Director of Centre for Death and Society,
University of Bath, UK
October 2010
Presented:
Kevin Brazil
Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics and
Division of Palliative Care in the Department of Family Medicine, McMaster University
St. Joseph's Health System Research Network
January 2010
Presented:
2009
David Kuhl
Centre for Practitioner Renewal, St. Paul's Hospital, BC
April 2009
Presented:
- Sustaining Health Care Providers
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R. Sean Morrison
Geriatric and Palliative Medicine, Mont Sinai Hospital,
New York
February 2009
Presented:
2008
Konrad Fassbender
Assistant Professor, Department of Oncology, University of Alberta
October 2008
Presented:
Scott Murray
Family Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Centre for Population Health Sciences
May 2008
Presented:
- The Golden Standards Framework for End-of-Life Care in the Community
- Living and Dying in Care Homes (RACFs) in the UK - a model for improvement using the GSF in Care Homes Programme - Prepared by Dr. Keri Thomas
Serge Dumont
Social Work, Université Laval
Economic Assessment of Palliative Care in Five Canadian Cities, Including Halifax
March 2008
Costs associated with resource utilization during the palliative phase of care: A Canadian perspective.
Pallitat Medicine. 2009; in press (e-published Oct 16, 2009
2007
Harvey Chochinov
Director, Manitoba Palliative Care Research Unit, CancerCare Manitoba
Professor, School of Psychiatry, University of Manitoba
October 2007
Dying with Dignity
Craig Earle
Clinical Research
Dana Farber Cancer Institute, now ICES Quality End
of Life Care Measures
September 2007
Presented:
Dan Hausman
Professor, Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Madison
March 2007
Presented: