Members of the Council are drawn from a wide variety of occupations within the community; professional health care providers, educators, financial and volunteers as well as representatives of service providers including public, private and philanthropic.
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| Co-Chairs: | |
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Suzanne O鈥橞rien听听 |
MA, Executive Director, Hope and Cope at the Jewish General Hospital. |
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John Sanford |
B.Eng, webmaster and volunteer on the Council. |
| Past Chairs | |
| Richard L. Cruess听听听 | MD, OC, OQ, Orthopedic surgeon and former Dean of Medicine at McGill with a longstanding interest in Palliative Care Medicine. |
| Kappy Flanders | LLD (Hon.), OC, Recipient of Queen Elizabeth Jubilee Medal, MSM听(Meritorious service Medal), Govenor Emerita McGill University,听 |
| Advisor: | |
| Balfour M. Mount听听听听 | MD, OC, OQ, The founder of the Royal Victoria Hospital Palliative Care Service, Palliative Care McGill and the McGill Programs in Whole Person Care. |
| Secretary: | |
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| Members: | |
| Barbara Bishop听 | Member of the Council and organiser of the workshops since 1996. |
| Sue Britton听 | RN, Pioneer nurse at RVH from 1975-1997.听 Works as a Palliative Care Consultant and Educator for Equinoxe LifeCare, private Nursing Agency.听 Works as a yoga therapist at MGH Griffith Edwards Addictions Unit since 2000. |
| 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. |
| Patrick Durivage | MSc, Social worker听on the home care team at CSSS Cavendish and a trainer on the global assessment tools. Trainer on Palliative Care issues (please see for details.) |
| Elle Flanders | 听 |
| Patricia Friesen | 听 |
| Zelda Freitas
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Social Worker听and Clinical supervisor听in the program for persons with a loss of autonomy including palliative homecare, CSSS Cavendish; member of听a Clinician-research team in听palliative care and the elderly, CSSS Cavendish. |
| Audrey-Jane Hall | Director Palliative Care, Palliative Home-Care Society of Greater Montreal |
| JoAnn Jones听 听听听听听 | Palliative Care Nurse Educator in rural communities, involved in professional and community education. |
| Bernard Lapointe | 听MD, OC, Palliative Care Physician and Educator.听 Head of the Marjorie & Gerald Bronfman Palliative Care Division at the Jewish General Hospital. |
| Virginia Lee | 听 |
| Devon Phillips | BFA, Program Advisor, Palliative Care McGill. |
| Justin Sanders |
MD, MSc, FAAHPM, Kappy and Eric M. Flanders Chair in Palliative Medicine at McGill University.听Director of Palliative Care McGill, 听 |
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Carol Steadman听 |
Coordinator of Volunteers for Mount Sinai Hospital and MAB / Mackay Centers. Coordinator of Mount Sinai Hospital Magic Moment Program. |
| Dale Weil | Executive Director,听Teresa Dellar听Palliative Care听Residence |
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