Visiting Scholars

Dr. Mette Asbjørn Neergaard

Consultant in palliative medicine for the Palliative Care Team and the Children’s Palliative Care Team at Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark

October 2016
Presentation

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

Kelli Stajduhar

Co-Associate Director Research & Scholarship, School of Nursing, Centre on Aging,
University of Victoria

2011

Mary Lou Kelley

Professor, School of Social Work and Gerontology, Lakehead University, Ontario

January 2011

Presented:

• Palliative and End of Life Care: Across Canada
  and in Nova Scotia Session
• Developing Palliative Care in LTC Homes:
  A Capacity Development Approach
• Improving End-of-Life Care in First Nations Communities: Generating a Theory of Change to Guide Program and Policy Development

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:

• Public Health Approaches to End of Life Care
  References

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:

• Supporting Quality Care for the Dying in Long Term Care

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:

• Restoring the Balance: The Imperative for Palliative Care
• Suffering in Silence: Improving Care for Persons with Dimentia

Konrad Fassbender

Assistant Professor, Department of Oncology, University of Alberta

October 2008

Presented:

• Paying to Die: The Economic Burden of Care Faced by Patients and their Caregivers

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

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:

• The aggressiveness of cancer care near the end
  of life: Is it a quality of care issue?

Dan Hausman

Professor, Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Madison

March 2007

Presented:

• Inequalities and Inequities in End of Life