| Golda Tradounsky, MD, CCFP (Chair) |
Dr. Golda Tradounsky has been a family and palliative care physician at Mount ³§¾±²Ô²¹Ã¯ Hospital in Montreal, Canada, since completing her family medicine residency at University of Montreal in 1998. In 2004, she became the Head of Palliative Care Services at Mount ³§¾±²Ô²¹Ã¯, managing homecare services, a consultation service for the community, and a palliative care unit. She is the current Education Director for Palliative Care McGill, a position she resumed in 2019 (after previously serving from 2007-2014) and currently occupies. Additionally, she was the Director of Research in palliative care at Mount Sinai from 2013-2017. Throughout her career, Dr. Golda Tradounsky has been committed to and passionate about both her palliative care practice and her mentoring of residents and medical students. |
| Silvana Barone, MD |
Dr. Silvana Barone is a pediatrician with specialty training in pediatric palliative care and bioethics. She completed her pediatric residency at the CHU Sainte-Justine and then a clinical and research fellowship in pediatric palliative medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. She is currently a Faculty Lecturer in the Department of Pediatrics at 51³Ô¹ÏÍø and, since 2021, the Medical Director at Le Phare, Enfants et Familles, Quebec's first pediatric hospice. Her clinical and research interests center around decision-making for children with medical complexity. She is actively engaged in teaching pediatric palliative care to students at all levels of training and an active member of the Canadian Pediatric Society's Bioethics committee. |
| Harvey Chang, MD | Harvey Chang, MD, FRCPC completed his medical training at 51³Ô¹ÏÍø (1978 - 1983), his rotating internship and Internal Medicine Residency at the Jewish General Hospital (JGH) from 1983 – 1988, as well as his Clinical Decision-Making Fellowship at Tufts University in 1990. He possesses board certification in Internal Medicine from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and in Internal Medicine and in Palliative Care from the American Board of Internal Medicine. Since 1991, Dr. Chang has been an attending staff physician at the JGH (General Internal Medicine) and Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medicine at 51³Ô¹ÏÍø. Since 2000, he has also been the Medical Team Leader of the Palliative Care Unit of the JGH. |
| Bessy Bitzas, PhD, RN, CHPCN(C) | Dr. Vasiliki (Bessy) Bitzas is Associate Nursing Director of the CIUSSS West Central Montreal where she oversees the organization of palliative care services. She is Assistant Professor at the Ingram School of Nursing, 51³Ô¹ÏÍø and Director of Education of the Canadian Palliative Care Nurses Association. |
| Vincent Dagenais-Beaulé, Pharm. D., M.Sc | Vincent Dagenais-Beaulé has been a visiting professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Montreal since 2021. In 2016, he began working at the CIUSSS du Centre-Ouest-de-l'Île-de-Montréal as a clinician in psychiatry and palliative care. He supervises Pharm students. |
| Marc Hamel, PhD |
Dr. Hamel began his clinical and research work in the 1990’s during the early years of the HIV/AIDS crisis in Canada. He was involved in the first National survey on the mental health needs of persons living with HIV/AIDS and their caregivers. Dr. Hamel’s interest in oncology originated when he joined the McGill University’s Health Centre’s (MUHC) palliative care team in 2002. Since 2008, Dr. Hamel has been the Clinical Director of the MUHC Psychosocial Oncology program leading a team of mental health professionals offering professional psychological interventions to persons living with cancer and family members. |
| Genevieve Chaput, MD, CAC (PC) CFPC |
Dr. Genevieve Chaput is a family physician at the 51³Ô¹ÏÍø Health Centre (MUHC) and currently serves as Chief of Supportive and Palliative Care Services at the Lachine Hospital site. She also holds the role of Interim President of the Central Executive Committee of the Council of Physicians, Dentists and Pharmacists and Midwives of the MUHC. With a background that bridges both the human and clinical sides of medicine, Genevieve earned a BA in Communications (Human Relations) before completing an MA in Health Professions Education and a Fellowship in Palliative Medicine at 51³Ô¹ÏÍø. Her dedication to improving cancer care has been recognized through the Henry Shibata Cedars Cancer Foundation Award and the Elaine T. & Charles H. Peters Award in Medical Oncology, which supported her work in cancer survivorship and the development of clinical, educational, and research initiatives in that field. She is also certified in Casley-Smith Complex Lymphatic Therapy for the management of cancer-related lymphedema and continues to contribute actively to the MUHC’s Lymphedema Program through both research and clinical practice. Beyond her professional commitments, Genevieve deeply values her family and friends that bring her great joy and pride. |
| Justin Sanders, MD, M.Sc |
Dr. Justin Sanders holds the Kappy and Eric M. Flanders Chair of Palliative Care and is Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at McGill. He directs the Division of Palliative Care in that department the Division of Supportive and Palliative Care at the 51³Ô¹ÏÍø Health Centre. Dr. 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. He founded the Centre for Relationships in Serious Illness, which aims to transform healthcare for people affected by serious illness by understanding and promoting authentic healing relationships. |
| Kyle St. Louis, MD, FRCPC | Dr. Kyle St. Louis is a pediatrician with the Pediatric Advanced Care Team (PACT) at the Montreal Children’s Hospital, providing palliative care services to children and families across the continuum of illness. He also practices at Le Phare Enfants et Familles, Montreal’s pediatric hospice, and serves as the Program Director for the Pediatric Palliative Medicine subspecialty residency program at 51³Ô¹ÏÍø. His interests include home-based pediatric palliative care programs, residency program development and the transitions of adolescents living with medical complexity to adult palliative care services. |