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Conference Organiser |
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ICE Australia Pty Ltd
183 Albion Street
Surry Hills, 2010
NSW, Australia |
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T: +61 2 8282 0544
F: +61 2 9368 1500 |
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| The Inaugural Whole Person Care National Symposium is proud to announce the following speakers; |
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Prof Harvey Max Chochinov (Canada)
Harvey Chochinov is Professor of Psychiatry and Community Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba, and Director of the Manitoba Palliative Care Research Unit at CancerCare Manitoba. He holds the only Canada Research Chair in Palliative Care and is a member of the Governing Council of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). He also chairs the CIHR’s Standing Committee on Ethics. He did his undergraduate medical training and Psychiatric Residency at the University of Manitoba and completed a Fellowship in Psychiatric Oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York. In 1998, he completed a PhD in the Faculty of Community Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba. |
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Harvey Chochinov has been researching palliative care since 1990, and is a grantee of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the National Institute of Health. His work has explored various psychiatric dimensions or palliative medicine, such as depression, desire for death, will to live and dignity at the end of life. 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.
He 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, Israel, Europe, China and Japan. He is the only psychiatrist in Canada to be designated as a Soros Faculty Scholar, Project on Death in America. In addition to over 150 publications, he is Co-Editor of the Handbook of Psychiatry in Palliative Medicine, published by Oxford University Press, and the Journal Palliative and Support Care, published by Cambridge University Press. He is a recipient of the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal and his provinces’ highest honour, the Order of Manitoba, for his work in palliative care. He is also the winner of the Canadian Psychiatric Association’s JM Cleghorn Award for excellence and leadership in clinical research. He was recently named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. |
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Dr Thomas R. Egnew, (USA)
Dr. Egnew is Behavioral Science Coordinator at Tacoma Family Medicine, a university-affiliated, community-based family medicine residency program in Tacoma, Washington, and a Clinical Professor in the Department of Family Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine. He has been a teacher and researcher in medical education in family medicine residency programs for 30 years. He was part of a research team that explored physician and patient perceptions of quality end-of-life care and has devoted considerable study to understanding and improving the assessment of physician-patient interactions. Dr. Egnew helped develop a curriculum for teaching patient-centered interviewing skills in the University of Washington’s required third year clerkship in family medicine, a summary of which was published in Academic Medicine. During the course of his career, Dr. Egnew has presented at local and national conferences in the United States. As a 2007 Fulbright Scholar to New Zealand, Dr. Egnew was a Visiting Professor in the Department of General Practice, Dunedin School of Medicine, where he evaluated the doctor-patient relationship curriculum for the medical school. He was also invited to consult with the national Area Coordinators of the General Practice Education Program (GPEP) of the Royal New Zealand College of General Practice on the topic of teaching patient-centered interviewing and conducted a workshop on teaching patient-centered medicine to the GPEP1 Southern and Western region teachers of general practice registrars. Dr. Egnew’s research has examined physician roles in palliative care and the healing power of the doctor-patient relationship. He is a regular reviewer for The Annals of Family Medicine of manuscripts addressing healing and doctor-patient communication. |
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Dr Robin Youngson, (New Zealand)
Dr Robin Youngson is an internationally renowned clinical leader and keynote speaker most famous for helping individuals and organisations restore deep meaning, humanity and compassion in their work. Robin is the founder of the New Zealand Centre for Compassion in Healthcare. Robin began life as an engineer, progressed to medicine and then anaesthetics, and has held many leadership roles alongside his joyful clinical practice. Robin has worked with a number of organisations in facilitating engagement with clinical leaders, exploring the meaning of work, and connecting deeply with core values of caring and compassion. He is an inspiring keynote speaker who speaks from the heart of his own journey back to humanity. He was an international spokesman for the World Health Organisation in the launch of the new policy on “People at the Centre of Health Care” in 2007. |
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Dr. Stephanie Dowrick (Australia)
Rev Stephanie Dowrick, PhD, is widely known as the author of a number of innovative, life-changing books in the areas of personal, social and ethical development. Stephanie has been the "Inner Life" columnist for Good Weekend Magazine since 2001 (Sydney Morning Herald and The Age). She has been a regular ABC radio guest and run national and international retreats and workshops.Born in New Zealand, Stephanie lived in Britain for many years. She was founder and first Managing Director of The Women's Press in London, and during those years also trained in analytic psychotherapy and Psychosynthesis. She has done regular work with Breast Cancer Network Australia, furthering the psychological empowerment of women diagnosed with breast cancer. Stephanie is an ordained Interfaith minister and an Adjunct Fellow with the Writing & Society Research Group at the University of Western Sydney. |
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Other Speakers and Panellists
Associate Professor Brian McCaughan
Dr Winston Liauw (Staff Specialist, Cancer Care Centre)
Ms. Patricia Morris
Dr Frank Brennan (Staff Specialist Palliative Medicine)
Dr Jonathan Gillis (ICU, Westmead Children’s Hospital)
Dr Matthew Links (Medical Oncologist, STGH)
Dr Paul Bertolino (Anaesthetist, Pain Specialist)
Dr Judith Lacey (Palliative Care Physician)
Prof John Kearsley (Director of Cancer Services, St George Hospital)
Dr Christine Sanderson (Palliative Medicine Physician) |
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