Challenging Issues Panels

Challenging Issues Panels

• IMPLEMENTING SERIOUS ILLNESS CONVERSATIONS INTO CLINICAL PRACTICE: A PROMISING PRACTICE WITH PRACTICAL CHALLENGES
  • Moderator: Carolyn Tayler, Director Strategic Initiatives, BC Centre for Palliative Care
  • Speakers:
    1. Elizabeth Beddard Huber, Clinical Lead Serious Illness Conversations, BC Centre for Palliative Care;
    2. Dr.  Harvey Chang, Palliative Care Physician, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University
    3. Jocelyn Semenchuk: Nurse Clinician, Alberta Health Service

• COMPASSIONATE COMMUNITIES IN CANADA:  A PRACTICAL APPROACH
  • Moderator:  Dr. Denise Marshall, Medical Director,  Niagara West Palliative Care Team and McNally House Hospice; Professor,  Department of Family Medicine, Division of Palliative Care,  McMaster University
  • Speakers:
    1. Dr. Kathy Kortes Miller,  Assistant Professor, School of Social Work and Palliative Care Division Lead Centre for Education and Research on Aging and Health (CERAH), Lakehead University
    2. Dr. Eman Hassan, Director, Public Health Initiatives, Compassionate Communities & Advance Care Planning, BC Centre for Palliative Care
    3. Monica Patten, Board member, Compassionate Ottawa
• THE INTERSECTION OF LIFE-THREATENING ILLNESS AND SCHOOLS
  • Moderator: Dr. Christine Vadebonceour, Neilsen House, Ottawa
  • Speakers:
    1. To be Determined
• INTEGRATING ARTS INTO HOSPICE PALLIATIVE CARE
  • Moderator: Bev Foster, Executive Director, Room 217 Foundation
  • Speakers:
    1. Martha Nixon, Visual Artist, May Court Hospice, Ottawa
    2. Sarah Pearson, Music Therapist – Palliative Care, Grand River Hospital, Kitchener
    3. Hartley Jafine, Drama/Improv Practitioner-Pedagogue – Health Sciences, McMaster University
• HOW THE LIGHT GETS IN—ILLUMINATING POSSIBILITIES FOR A MORE EQUITABLE PALLIATIVE CARE ETHOS: FRONTLINE LESSONS FROM THE INNER-CITY ROOMING HOUSE CONTEXT
  • Moderator: Wendy Muckle, Executive Director, Inner City Health
  • Speakers: (TBD) including:
    1. Danielle Rolfe
    2. Ed Kucerak
    3. Robert Jamison
    4. Catherine Hacksel
    5. Elise Skinner
• THE ROLE OF HPC IN COMMUNITY BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT: CURRENT REALITIES AND FUTURE NEEDS
  • Moderator: Wendy Wainwright, Victoria Hospice (retired)
  • Speakers:
    1. Marney Thompson, Victoria Hospice
    2. Teresa Dellar, West Island Palliative Care Residence
• DEFINING THE ROLE OF HOSPICE PALLIATIVE CARE (HPC) AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH MEDICAL ASSISTANCE IN DYING (MAID) IN OUR PROGRAMS: A DYNAMIC AND RESPECTFUL DISCUSSION!
  • Moderator: Sharon Baxter, Executive Director, Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association
  • Speakers:
    • Dr. David Henderson
    • Others TBD
• OPPORTUNITIES AND POSSIBILITIES: EXPLORING THE UPDATED PAN-CANADIAN FRAMEWORK FOR ADVANCE CARE PLANNING (ACP)
  • Moderators:
  • • Mary Ann Murray, RN, PhD, CHPCN(C), Program Director*
    • Chad Hammond, PhD, Program Manager*
• *Advance Care Planning in Canada, Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association