Meet The Congress Team
Scientific Planning Committee Co-Chairs
Scientific Planning Committee Members
Hitesh Bhanabhai
MD CM, CCFP
Physician, MUHC Supportive and Palliative Care Services
Bessy Bitzas
N, PhD
Ingram School of Nursing, McGill University
Manny Borod
MD
Director of Palliative Care Services, McGill University Health Centre
Linda Crelinsten
RN, MA
Assistant Director of the Arnold and Blema Steinberg Medical Simulation Centre in the McGill Faculty of Medicine and a volunteer on the Council
Vincent Dagenais-Beaulé
Pharmacist, Pharm.D., M.Sc.
Montreal Jewish General Hospital
Elle Flanders
Zelda Freitas
MSW
Senior Advisor -CIUSSS West-Central Montreal
Naomi Goloff,
Suzanne O’Brien
MSW
Executive Director, Hope and Cope at the Jewish General Hospital
Kimberley Widger
Assistant Professor, Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing
David K. Wright
PhD, RN, MSc(A)
Assistant Professor, University of Ottawa
Affiliate faculty member, Ingram School of Nursing, McGill University
Devon Phillips
BFA
Program Advisor, Palliative Care McGill
 Maryse Bouvette
Palliative Care Advanced Practice Nurse, Ottawa, ON, Canada
 Shirley Bush
University of Ottawa
Ottawa, ON, Canada
 Franco Carnevale
McGill University
Montréal, QC, Canada
 Harvey Chang
Jewish General Hospital
Montréal, QC, Canada
 Rose DeAngelis
St-Raphaël, Palliative Care Home and Day Centre, Montréal, QC, Canada
 Dominique Dion
CIUSSS de l’Est de l’Ïle de Montréal
Montréal, QC, Canada
 James Downar
University of Ottawa
Ottawa, ON, Canada
 Justine Farley
Palliative Care Physician
Montréal, QC, Canada
 Marie-Laurence Fortin
Jewish General Hospital
Montréal, QC, Canada
 Pierre Gagnon
Université Laval
Québec, QC
 Justine Gauthier
Montreal Neurological Hospital
Montréal, QC, Canada
 Hinda Goodman
Jewish General Hospital
Montréal, QC, Canada
 Jeffrey Hall
Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, Montréal, QC, Canada
 Marc Hamel
McGill University Health Centre
Montréal, QC, Canada
 Leonie Herx
Queen's University
Kingston, ON, Canada
Cory Ingram
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN, USA
Anna Voeuk
Queen's University School of Medicine
Kingston, ON, Canada
 Jean Zigby
Jewish General Hospital, Montréal, QC, Canada
Lawrence Lee
University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB, Canada
 Elizabeth Mac Namara
Jewish General Hospital
Montréal, QC, Canada
 Dale MacCandlish Weil
Teresa Dellar Palliative Care Residence
Kirkland, QC, Canada
 Judith Marchessault
Mount Sinai Hospital, Montréal, QC, Canada
Anita Mehta
Montréal, QC, Canada
Arshiya Kaffash
McGill University
Family Medicine Resident CLSC Cote des Neiges, Montreal, Quebec
Student Representative for the McGill International Palliative Care Congress
R. Sean Morrison
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, NY, USA
 Elena Neamt
Teresa Dellar Palliative Care Residence
Kirkland, QC, Canada
Andree Neron
Montréal, QC, Canada
 Antoine Payot
CHU Sainte-Justine
Montréal, QC, Canada
 Jordi Perez
McGill University Health Centre
Montréal, QC, Canada
 Adam Rapoport
Hospital for Sick Children
Toronto, ON, Canada
 Deborah Salmon
McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, QC, Canada
 Hal Siden
Canuck Place Children’s Hospice
Vancouver, BC, Canada
 Erica Srinivasan
University of Wisconsin
La Crosse, WI, USA
 Deborah Ummel
Université de Sherbrooke
Sherbrooke, QC
 Antonio Vigano
McGill University Health Centre
Montréal, QC, Canada
 
Program Committee
 Carla Alexander
University of Maryland
Baltimore, MD, USA
 Ann Berger
The National Institutes of Health, Clinical Center
Bethesda, MD, USA
Yvan Beaussant
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, MA, USA
 Myra Bluebond-Langner
University College London, Institute of Child Health London, UK
 Gian Domenico Borasio
University of Lausanne
Lausanne, Switzerland
 Ira Byock
Providence Institute for Human Caring
Torrance, CA, USA
 Susan Cadell
Renison University of Waterloo
Waterloo, ON, Canada
 Tanguy Châtel
Société française d’accompagnement et de soins palliatifs
La Celle Saint-Cloud, Yvelines, France
Harvey Max Chochinov
Winnipeg, MB, Canada
 Shelly Cory
Canadian Virtual Hospice
Winnipeg, MB, Canada
 Betty Davies
University of Victoria
Victoria, BC, Canada
 Mellar Davis
Geisinger Medical Center
Danville, PA, USA
Johanne de Montigny
Montreal, QC, Canada
Luce Des Aulniers
Montreal, QC, Canada
Deborah Dungeon
Kingston, ON, Canada
 Betty Ferrell
City of Hope
Duarte, CA, USA
Bettina Husebø
Bergen, Norway
Stein Husebø
National Dignity Center, Care for the Frail Old, Bergen, Norway
 Tom Hutchinson
McGill Programs in Whole Person Care
Montréal, QC, Canada
 Louise La Fontaine
Université de Sherbrooke
Sherbrooke, QC, Canada
 Stephen Liben
The Montreal Children's Hospital
Montréal, QC, Canada
 Mary Lynn McPherson
University of Maryland School of Pharmacy
Baltimore, MD, USA
Jeff Moat
Ottawa, ON, Canada
 Balfour Mount
Emeritus Professor of Palliative Medicine, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada
Sue Morris
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, MA, USA
 Robert A. Neimeyer
University of Memphis
Memphis, TN, USA
 Claire Oppert
Hopital Sainte Perine (Paris)
Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France
 David Praill
Chair, ehospice, London, UK
 Kelli Stajduhar
University of Victoria
Victoria, BC, Canada
 Ros Taylor
Royal Marsden Hospital
London, UK
 Anna Towers
MGill University Health Centre
Montreal, QC, Canada