People

Jennifer Gibson is Sun Life Financial Chair in Bioethics and Director of the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics, Associate Professor in the Institute of Health Policy, Management & Evaluation, and Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Bioethics at the University of Toronto. Jennifer has a PhD...

Bill joined Kensington Health Centre October, 2000, as the founding Executive Director.  He brings a combination of private sector and not-for-profit experience and is currently responsible for the day to day operations of Kensington Gardens and Kensington Hospice, including marketing, technology, purchasing, human/ labour relations resources as well as business...

Sarah Hales, MD, PhD, FRCPC. Sarah Hales is a psychiatrist for the Division of Psychosocial Oncology in the Department of Supportive Care at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto. Her research has been funded by both the Canadian Cancer Society and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Her clinical...

Dr. Martin Chasen, born in Pretoria, South Africa completed his undergraduate training at the University of Pretoria in 1983, later obtaining a specialist degree in Internal Medicine and Medical Oncology and Master of Philosophy (Palliative Medicine) at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He is a founding member of...

Dr. Ravi Bhargava MD is a Physician Scientist and a healthcare management executive. He completed the Advanced Health System Leadership program from the Rotman School of management, University of Toronto. Dr. Bhargava is the Corporate Manger of Research at the William Osler Health System where he is successfully creating research...

Dr. Amit Arya joined the Division of Supportive & Palliative Care at Brampton Civic Hospital, William Osler Health System in October of 2015. Passionate about medical research, he holds a joint faculty appointment in the Division of Palliative Care at McMaster University & the University of Toronto.  His diverse research...

Nazira Jaffer, BSC.MHA.MBA.CHE, is an innovative health care executive with a proven track record of outstanding results in planning health care, social services and programs, strategy and change management, project management and performance through engaging service providers, consumer groups and stakeholders across jurisdictions. Nazira has more than 25 years of senior...

Eric Cazdyn is Distinguished Professor Aesthetics and Politics at the University of Toronto, where he teaches courses on critical and cultural theory, illness, psychoanalysis, radical politics, film, and modern Japan. He is the author of the following books: The Already Dead: The New Time of Politics, Culture, and Illness (Duke,...

Dr Doris Howell RN, PhD is the RBC Chair in Oncology Nursing Research and Education, University Health Network. She is a Senior Scientist with the Division of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care at the Ontario Cancer Institute,  Adjunct Scientist at the Division of Preventive Oncology,...

Adam Rapoport is a general pediatrician with a Masters in bioethics. His palliative care career began in 2009 when he joined the Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative Care at Mount Sinai Hospital, as their pediatric consultant. In July 2011 Adam became the first Medical Director of the Paediatric Advanced Care...

Kevin Reel is the Ethicist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and Markham Stouffville Hospital. He has an MSc in medical ethics from Imperial College, London, UK, and a BSc in occupational therapy from the University of Toronto.  He completed his Fellowship in Clinical and Organizational Ethics at the Joint Centre...

Luzia Travado, PhD, MSc, ClinPsych, is clinical health psychologist specialized in Psycho-oncology. She is currently head of Psycho-Oncology at the Clinical Center of the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal (2011-). She has a career of more than 30 yrs initiated at Hospital S. José-Central Lisbon Hospital...

Kirsten Wentlandt graduated with her PhD in Physiology and Neurosciences before finishing her MD at Queen’s University.  She then returned to the University of Toronto to complete her residency in Family Medicine, fellowship in Palliative Care and a Masters in Health Sciences (Health Administration).  She joined UHN after graduating in...

Kimberley Widger is currently an Assistant Professor at the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto and a Nursing Research Associate at the Hospital for Sick Children. Her research focuses on identifying and measuring structures, processes, and outcomes that are indicative of high-quality pediatric palliative and end-of-life care...

Argin Malakian is a Registered Oncology Nurse at Princess Margaret Cancer...

Dr. Chloe Shaw is a research associate at the Institute for Women’s Health, University College London. She completed her PhD at Loughborough University, supported by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Her thesis used the method of conversation analysis (CA) to study advice giving between mothers and their young-adult...

Gary Rodin is the Joint University of Toronto/University Health Network Harold and Shirley Lederman Chair in Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care and is Head of the Department of Supportive Care at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto.

Dr. Rodin is the Director of the Global Institute of Psychosocial, Palliative and...

Carmine Malfitano, PhD (C), MSW, RSW is a Social Worker in Research, registered with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers, and psychotherapist. He is a trained CALM therapist and provides psychotherapy to individuals facing advanced cancer at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre.

As a Research Associate for...

Gilla Shapiro, MA (Cantab), MPP/MPA, PhD, is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Supportive Care at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto.  Gilla completed her PhD in clinical psychology at McGill University and her dual-degree MPA/MPP at the London School of Economics and Political Science and the Hertie...

Dr.Kayla Wolofsky is currently a clinician-teacher at Toronto General Hospital and the University of Toronto. Her clinical duties include both General Internal Medicine and Palliative Care.  She completed medical school at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia and completed her Internal Medicine residency at the Emory University. She graduated from...

Dr. Jenny Lau is a palliative care physician, trained in family medicine at the University of Ottawa, and then completed her year of added competency in palliative care at the University of Alberta. She was awarded the Canadian Society of Palliative Care Physicians’ Palliative Medicine Resident Research award for her...

Miah Zammit, BA (Hons.) is a Project Coordinator at GIPPEC. In addition to her role at GIPPEC she works for the Cancer Experience Program. Miah completed her BAH in Health Studies from Queen’s University and has 3+ years experience working in a health care setting, most recently from Holland Bloorview...

Professor Richard Sullivan's research group studies health systems, particular NCD policy and the impact of conflict on health. He is Professor of Cancer and Global Health at King’s College London, and Director of the Institute of Cancer Policy (ICP) and co-Director...

Dr. Camilla Zimmermann is Head of the Division of Palliative Care at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and the University Health Network, and a Senior Scientist at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre Research Institute. She is also Professor of Medicine and Rose Family Chair in Supportive Care at the University...

Laurice Karkaby, BSc., MA, is a Clinical Research Coordinator at GIPPEC and the Princess Margaret Global Cancer Program. She earned both her BSc. and MA in psychology at the University of Toronto. Her Masters research explored the psychosocial and cognitive outcomes of prophylactic oophorectomy in BRCA1/2 carriers via in-depth qualitative...

Luigi Grassi, M.D. is Professor and Chair of Psychiatry, Chair of the Department of Biomedical and Specialty Surgical Sciences of the University of Ferrara, Italy, and Head of the University Unit of Hospital Psychiatry, S. Anna Hospital  and Local Health Agency in Ferrara, Italy He is author of about 200...

Anne Lanceley is Senior Lecturer in Women’s Cancer at the Institute for Women’s Health, University College, London. She combines a research role with a clinical role as an Honorary Clinical Nurse Specialist at University College Hospital (UCLH) and as a supervisor to cancer care professionals. Recently she became a trainee...

Since 2012, Anja Mehnert, is head of the Section of Psychosocial Oncology, Department of Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology, at the University Medical Center Leipzig, Germany. From 2009 to 2012 she was head of the psycho-oncology and palliative care research group at the Department of Medical Psychology and the University...

Dr. Wei Liu is a professor and the chief Physician of Oncology at Peking University, Beijing, China. She is also a medical oncologist and the director of Beijing Cancer Hospital Palliative Care Centre. She has been a council member of The Chinese 

Dr. Faith Mwangi-Powell, MSc, PhD is a public health expert and senior manager of complex public health programs in Africa.  She has more than 18 years of experience in leading, managing, implementing, health programs. Her experience includes working as the founding Executive Director of the African Palliative Care Association and...

Richard is currently a co-director of MWAPO Health Development Group (HDG), a Kenya-based organization with the vision of increasing access to quality health and social care services for those in need in lower and middle income countries (LMICs).  MWAPO-HDG works across four strategic outcomes including, partnership development, evidence generation, strategic...