The Montreal Children’s Hospital, Montréal, QC, Canada
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Special Seminar: Palliative Care Nursing: Making a Difference: Critical Reflections on the Nursing Role in Palliative Care for Diverse Populations
Hitesh Bhanabhai
McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, QC, Canada
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Special Seminar: Introduction to Palliative and End-of-Life Care
Cindy Blackstock
Executive Director, First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada, Ottawa, ON; and Professor, School of Social Work, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada
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Plenary 1: Compassion and Impermanence
Amanda Brisebois
University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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All Day Seminar: Clinical Master Class: Management of End-Stage Non Cancer Diseases and Palliative Approach to Frailty in the Elderly
Theresa Brown
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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All Day Seminar: Nursing Day: Is it Time to Retire the Angel Metaphor? Reflections on Knowledge and Skill in Caregiving Work
The Honourable Sharon Carstairs
PC, CM, Former Senator, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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All Day Seminar: The Teresa Dellar Community Development Seminar: Caregiving, Community, Advocacy and Volunteers
Anna Collins
Research Fellow; Head, Public Health & Health Services Research - Palliative Medicine Research Group, Department of Medicine, St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne, University of Melbourne VIC, Australia
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Plenary 4: Palliative Care – Looking Ahead
Shelly Cory
Canadian Virtual Hospice, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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All Day Seminar: The Teresa Dellar Community Development Seminar: Caregiving, Community, Advocacy and Volunteers
Johanne de Montigny
Psychologist, Montréal, QC, Canada
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Special Seminar: Psychotherapy In Palliative Care: Constructive Approaches for Accompanying Patients and Families at the End of Life
Rose DeAngelis
St-Raphaël, Palliative Care Home and Day Centre, Montréal, QC, Canada
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Special Seminar: Introduction to Palliative and End-of-Life Care
Naheed Dosani
PEACH, Inner City Health Associates, Toronto, ON, Canada
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All Day Seminar: The Teresa Dellar Community Development Seminar: Caregiving, Community, Advocacy and Volunteers
James Downar
University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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Symposium: The End of ‘Natural Death”? Impact of Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD) on Palliative Medicine
Dominique Elie
McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada
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Special Seminar: Pharmacotherapy: Best Practices for the Relief of Mental and Physical Suffering
Éric Fiat
Assistant Director, Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire d'étude du politique / Hannah Arendt, Université de Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, Marne la Vallée, France
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Plenary 2: Caring for Self
Zelda Freitas
CIUSSS West Central Montréal, Côte Saint-Luc, QC, Canada
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Special Seminar: Introduction to Palliative and End-of-Life Care
Romayne Gallagher
Providence Health Care, Vancouver, BC, Canada
SESSIONS
All Day Seminar: Clinical Master Class: Management of End-Stage Non Cancer Diseases and Palliative Approach to Frailty in the Elderly
Nathan Goldstein
Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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All Day Seminar: Clinical Master Class: Management of End-Stage Non Cancer Diseases and Palliative Approach to Frailty in the Elderly
Pamela Grassau
Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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All Day Seminar: The Teresa Dellar Community Development Seminar: Caregiving, Community, Advocacy and Volunteers
Richard Hain
All-Wales Paediatric Palliative Care Network, Wales, UK
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Special Seminar: All Day Seminar: Pediatric Palliative Care: Re-thinking the “Care” in Pediatric Palliative Care: An Interprofessional Examination of “Care” Through Research and Practice
Leonie Herx
Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada
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Symposium: The End of ‘Natural Death”? Impact of Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD) on Palliative Medicine
Pamela S. Hinds
Children's National Health System, Washington, DC, USA
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All Day Seminar: Pediatric Palliative Care: Re-thinking the “Care” in Pediatric Palliative Care: An Interprofessional Examination of “Care” Through Research and Practice
Debbie Horsfall
Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia
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Special Seminar: Research Methodology: Studying Compassionate Communities
Tom Hutchinson
McGill Program in Whole Person Care, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada
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All Day Seminar: Reflective Practice: Know Thyself: A Whole Person Care Self-reflective Journey
Nikki Johnston
Calvary Public Hospital Bruce, Canberra, Australia
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Special Seminar: Palliative Care Nursing: Making a Difference: Critical Reflections on the Nursing Role in Palliative Care for Diverse Populations
Cory Andrew Labrecque
Associate Professor of Theological Ethics and Bioethics; Chair of Educational Leadership in the Ethics of Life; Director of Applied Ethics in the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada
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Plenary 4: Palliative Care – Looking Ahead
Mary Ellen Macdonald
McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada
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All Day Seminar: Pediatric Palliative Care: Re-thinking the “Care” in Pediatric Palliative Care: An Interprofessional Examination of “Care” Through Research and Practice
Christopher J. MacKinnon
Psychologist; Montréal, QC, Canada
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Special Seminar: Psychotherapy In Palliative Care: Constructive Approaches for Accompanying Patients and Families at the End of Life
Mary Lynn McPherson
University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, Baltimore, MA, USA
SESSIONS
All Day Seminar: Clinical Master Class: Management of End-Stage Non Cancer Diseases and Palliative Approach to Frailty in the Elderly
Special Seminar: Pharmacotherapy: Best Practices for the Relief of Mental and Physical Suffering
Paige Moorhouse
Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
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All Day Seminar: Clinical Master Class: Management of End-Stage Non Cancer Diseases and Palliative Approach to Frailty in the Elderly
Lucas Morin
Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Aging Research Center, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Plenary 4: Palliative Care – Looking Ahead
Mary Ann Murray
Algonquin College, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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Special Seminar: Palliative Care Nursing: Making a Difference: Critical Reflections on the Nursing Role in Palliative Care for Diverse Populations
Christian Ntizimira
Palliative Care Physician; City Manager, Kigali, City Cancer Challenge Foundation; Founder Member, Rwanda Palliative Care and Hospice Organisation (RPCHO), Kigali, Rwanda
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Plenary 2: Caring for Self
Suzanne O'Brien
Council on Palliative Care, Montréal, QC, Canada
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All Day Seminar: The Teresa Dellar Community Development Seminar: Caregiving, Community, Advocacy and Volunteers
Jamie Penner
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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All Day Seminar: Nursing Day: Is it Time to Retire the Angel Metaphor? Reflections on Knowledge and Skill in Caregiving Work
Elizabeth Peter
University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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All Day Seminar: Nursing Day: Is it Time to Retire the Angel Metaphor? Reflections on Knowledge and Skill in Caregiving Work
Holly Prince
Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada
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All Day Seminar: The Teresa Dellar Community Development Seminar: Caregiving, Community, Advocacy and Volunteers
Sunita Puri
Medical Director, Palliative Medicine and Supportive Care Service, Keck Hospital and Norris Cancer Center of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
SESSIONS
Plenary 1: Compassion and Impermanence
Soham Rej
McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada
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Special Seminar: Pharmacotherapy: Best Practices for the Relief of Mental and Physical Suffering
Libby Sallnow
St Christopher’s Hospice, and Central and North West NHS Trust, London, UK
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Special Seminar: Research Methodology: Studying Compassionate Communities
Edvin Schei
Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, Norway
SESSIONS
All Day Seminar: Reflective Practice: Know Thyself: A Whole Person Care Self-reflective Journey
Kelli Stajduhar
University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
SESSIONS
All Day Seminar: Nursing Day: Is it Time to Retire the Angel Metaphor? Reflections on Knowledge and Skill in Caregiving Work
Special Seminar: Palliative Care Nursing: Making a Difference: Critical Reflections on the Nursing Role in Palliative Care for Diverse Populations
Special Seminar: Research Methodology: Studying Compassionate Communities
Isabelle Szasz
Caregiver, Montréal, QC, Canada
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All Day Seminar: The Teresa Dellar Community Development Seminar: Caregiving, Community, Advocacy and Volunteers
Anna Towers
McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, QC, Canada
SESSIONS
Symposium: The End of ‘Natural Death”? Impact of Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD) on Palliative Medicine
Golda Tradounsky
Mount Sinaï Hospital, Côte Saint-Luc, QC, Canada
SESSIONS
Symposium: The End of ‘Natural Death”? Impact of Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD) on Palliative Medicine
Camara van Breemen
Canuck Place Children's Hospice, Vancouver, BC, Canada
SESSIONS
All Daty Seminar: Pediatric Palliative Care: Re-thinking the “Care” in Pediatric Palliative Care: An Interprofessional Examination of “Care” Through Research and Practice
Brandi Vanderspank-Wright
University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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Special Seminar: Palliative Care Nursing: Making a Difference: Critical Reflections on the Nursing Role in Palliative Care for Diverse Populations
Mike Villeneuve
Canadian Nurses Association, Ottawa, ON, Canada
SESSIONS
All Day Seminar: Nursing Day: Is it Time to Retire the Angel Metaphor? Reflections on Knowledge and Skill in Caregiving Work
Kimberley Widger
University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
SESSIONS
All Day Seminar: Pediatric Palliative Care: Re-thinking the “Care” in Pediatric Palliative Care: An Interprofessional Examination of “Care” Through Research and Practice