Innovations in End-of-Life Care
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Dr. Harvey Max Chochinov is a professor of Psychiatry, Community Health Sciences, and Family Medicine (Division of Palliative Care), at the University of Manitoba and head of the Department of Psychosocial Oncology, CancerCare Manitoba, Canada. He did his undergraduate medical training and psychiatric residency at the University of Manitoba. He also completed a fellowship in psychiatric oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY. In 1998, he completed a PhD in the Faculty of Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba.

Dr. Chochinov has been doing palliative care research since 1990 with funding and support from local, provincial, and national granting agencies. His work has explored various psychiatric dimensions of palliative medicine. This research served as the basis for his testimony to the Senate of Canada's Special Committee on Euthanasia and Assisted-Suicide in October 1994 and again in February 2000. His research was also cited in most of the amicus briefs presented to the Supreme Court of the United States, in their recent deliberations regarding the constitutionality of physician-assisted suicide. He is on the board of the Palliative Care Foundation of Canada, and a principal investigator for the Canadian Virtual Hospice.

Dr. Chochinov has been a guest lecturer in most major academic institutions throughout Canada and United States; he has also lectured in South America, New Zealand, Australia, Europe, and Japan. He is a Soros Faculty Scholar, Project on Death in America (the only psychiatrist in Canada to be designated as such), a grantee of the National Cancer Institute of Canada, and the past president of the Canadian Association of Psychosocial Oncology. He is a Canada Research Chair in Palliative Care. In addition to many other publications, he is the co-editor of the Handbook of Psychiatry in Palliative Medicine, published by Oxford University Press. Drs. William Breitbart, Harvey Chochinov, and David Kissane are editing a newly forthcoming Cambridge University Press international journal, Palliative & Supportive Care, which focuses on psychiatric, psychosocial, existential, and spiritual aspects of palliative care.

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