Melzack Lecture Series - Justin Sanders MD, MSc, FAAHPM "On Suffering and Healing: Insights from Palliative Care for the Management of Pain"
Dr. Justin Sanders is the Kappy and Eric M. Flanders Chair in Palliative Care Medicine, Director of the Division of Palliative Care, and Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He is also the Director of the Division of Supportive and Palliative Care at the McGill University Health Centre. Dr. Sanders received his MD in 2007 from the University of Vermont and subsequently completed an MSc in Medical Anthropology from University College London in the United Kingdom as a US-UK Fulbright Post-graduate Scholar. Dr. Sanders was then a resident, chief resident, and faculty member in the Department of Family and Social Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx. In 2014, he completed a clinical fellowship in the Harvard Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Following completion of a research fellowship at Ariadne Labs, a joint health systems innovation center at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Brigham and Women's Hospital, he served as the Associate Director of Innovation in the Serious Illness Care Program and attending physician in the Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute until moving to McGill. His research focuses on understanding and implementing interventions to improve care and communication equity and relationships between clinicians and people affected by serious illness.