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.
| Co-Chairs: | |
|---|---|
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Suzanne O’Brien |
MA, Executive Director, Hope and Cope at the Jewish General Hospital. |
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John Sanford |
B.Eng, volunteer on the Council. |
| Secretary: | |
| Lexa Frail | MA, Secretary. |
| Members: | |
| Barbara Bishop | Member of the Council and organiser of the workshops since 1996. |
| Sue Britton | RN, Pioneer nurse at RVH from 1975-1997. Works as a Palliative Care Consultant and Educator for Equinoxe LifeCare, private Nursing Agency. 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 on the home care team at CSSS Cavendish and a trainer on the global assessment tools. Trainer on Palliative Care issues (please see www.creges.ca for details.) |
| Elle Flanders | PhD, Filmmaker and palliative care activist |
| Zelda Freitas | Social Worker and Clinical supervisor in the program for persons with a loss of autonomy including palliative homecare, CSSS Cavendish; member of a Clinician-research team in palliative care and the elderly, CSSS Cavendish. |
| Patricia Friesen | RN, M.Sc., B.Th. Worked in nursing in palliative care, oncology and with CanSupport, at RVH/MGH; and with CLSC René-Cassin. Currently with spiritual care team at RVH. |
| Virginia Lee | N, PhD, Manager, Supportive and Palliative Care Program and Services, Cedars CanSupport. |
| 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. Director of Palliative Care McGill, |
| Dale Weil | Executive Director, Teresa Dellar Palliative Care Residence |