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2015-2016 Dr. M. J. Al Ghamdi completed his residency program in family medicine at the University of Toronto from 1999-2001, after which he joined Johns Hopkins Aramco Health Care and worked as a family physician for the last 14 years. Dr. Al Ghamdi has a Master's degree in business administration and he is also certified in health care quality. He has a special interest in quality pain management. |
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2016 Dr. Hall is an Attending Neurosurgeon at the Montreal Neurologic Institute and Hospital (MNI/MNH) since 2004 and specializes in Functional Disorders and Neuro-oncology. His initial academic interests were in Psychology and Neuroscience, for which he earned a B Sc. and M Sc. from the University of Western Ontario. His MD was awarded from the University of Toronto. He completed his Neurosurgical Residency and Fellowship training at McGill and the MNI/MNH. He now joins the Palliative Medicine Department at McGill for a post-graduate Fellowship in Palliative Care. Dr. Hall has a keen interest in the nascent field of Neuropalliative Care, which is the delivery of Palliative Care to people diagnosed with severe, incurable or chronic diseases of the nervous system, as well as families and caregivers. The goals of this sub-specialty is assist and integrate with the team providing disease-modifying treatment. The focus of his research is on therapeutic communication, mindfulness and maximizing quality of life. He will return to Neurosurgical practice at the MNI/MNH with this unique skill set to fulfill an unmet need in an expanding patient population with chronic and neurodegenerative diseases such as: nervous system malignancies, chronic pain, dementia, stroke, Alzheimer's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease. |
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2015-2016 Dr. Susan A. Hilburn has been a practicing inpatient internal medicine clinician since 2005. She completed her postgraduate residency training in Internal Medicine at the University of South Alabama in 2005 and mixed internships in Pediatrics, General Surgery and Internal Medicine between 2000-2003. She attended Mercer University School of Medicine in Macon, Georgia, graduating in 2000. Now, she joins the Palliative Care Department at McGill for her postgraduate fellowship. Her interests include alternative therapeutic strategies in combination with biomedicine in achieving optimal quality of life (whole person approach), bioethics, caregiver burnout, the effects of mindfulness practice on perceptions of pain and chronic illness and the integration of a multidisciplinary approach to chronic illness in clinical outpatient/inpatient practice amongst primary providers, including systems development to provide greater access to integrated care for the homebound. |