Updated: Fri, 10/11/2024 - 12:00

Campus/building access, classes and work will return to usual conditions, as of Saturday, Oct. 12. See Campus Public Safety website for details.


Accès au campus et aux immeubles, cours et modalités de travail : retour à la normale à compter du samedi 12 octobre. Complément d’information : Direction de la protection et de la prévention.

Course Director and Chair

Course Director

Dr. Stéfanie Gingras is affiliated with McGill University. She has worked exclusively in Palliative Care at the MUHC for the last 19 years and currently practices at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Glen Site. She is particularly interested in clinical teaching, difficult communications with patients and their families, and the psychological aspect of the Palliative Care experience. Dr. Gingras is a graduate of McGill in Family Medicine and holds a Fellowship and a Certificate of Added Competency in Palliative Care from the College of Family Physicians of Canada. She is the Director of the Clinical Teaching Unit and the Associate Director of the Palliative Care Department at the MUHC.

Chair

Dr. Justin Sanders has a BA in Art History from Haverford College, an MD from the University of Vermont, and an MSc in Medical Anthropology, which he completed at the University College London as a US-UK Fulbright Post-graduate Scholar. Dr. Sanders completed residency and chief residency in Family and Social Medicine at the Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx. He completed his fellowship in the Harvard Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He was a research fellow in cancer communications outcomes research and then the Associate Director of Innovation in the Serious Illness Care Program at Ariadne Labs, a joint health systems innovation center at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

 

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