Leaders in compassionate care
Our purpose
Created in 2018, the Montreal Institute for Palliative Care is a branch of the Teresa Dellar Palliative Care Residence.
The Institute is the Residence’s way of ensuring that community members benefit from palliative care by using and sharing its professionals’ experience while learning from evidence-based practices. Together, they are leaders in the art of compassionate care.
From demystifying what palliative care is, to helping communities and other care settings understand how to improve their practices, the Institute strives to engage and mobilize various stakeholders to become key advocates and active participants in this care model.
Upcoming Educational Events
Family Caregiver Interactive Information Series
Being a family caregiver can be as challenging as it is rewarding. If you are a family caregiver looking after someone with a chronic illness, please join us for this series of monthly informative conversations.
Our approach
Consultation
Consultation allows us to build on evidence-based practices and ensure we work on the most impactful projects. An Advisory Committee comprised of experts from across Canada guides us toward success.
Care and Compassion
Care and compassion are fundamental for all our palliative care efforts at the Residence and the Institute. Everything we do is meant to support our patients and families.
Collaboration
A strong palliative care community is ready to work with us, and we build within that existing framework. We are proud to work with leaders in the field, including the CIUSSS de l’Ouest-de-l’île-de-Montréal, McGill University, and l’Université de Montréal.
Our three pillars
The Institute is proud to offer valuable palliative care programs from its location within the Teresa Dellar Palliative Care Residence and to work hand in hand with the Residence’s highly specialized team. The Institute works to increase awareness for and continuously improve palliative care quality, access and capacity through Education & Knowledge exchange, Research, and Compassionate Communities.
The Institute works to improve palliative care capacity, capability, and quality to benefit our community and further the Residence as a Centre of Excellence. Our integrated model, which combines the clinical practice and expertise of the Residence with our many collaborators and programs, contributes to advancing palliative care across multiple communities and care settings, with associated societal benefits.
The Team
Executive Director
Dale WeilTeresa Dellar Palliative Care Residence & Montreal Institute for Palliative Care
Director of Education and Knowledge Exchange
Anita Mehta, RN, PhD, CFT
Community Development Project Manager
Cynthia Lapointe, DEC, AEC, Gerontology
Administrative Assistant
Nicole Lapointe
Contact us
The Montreal Institute for Palliative Care is located within the Teresa Dellar Palliative Care Residence.
265 André-Brunet St., Kirkland, Quebec H9H 3R4
Institute general email: info@ispm.ca
Governance
Advisory Committee
Chair
Doctor Justin J. Sanders, MD, MSc, FAAHPM
Kappy and Eric M. Flanders Chair of Palliative Care
Director |Palliative Care McGill
Associate Professor |Department of Family Medicine, McGill University.
Members
Consultant, Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association
Maryse Bouvette, RN, BSc, N. MEd, CONC (C), CHPCN (C) M.S.M.
Dr. James Downar, MDCM, MHSc, FRCPC
Head and Professor, Division of Palliative Care, Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa
Clinical Research Chair in Palliative and End of Life Care, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa
Adjunct Professor, Queensland University of Technology School of Law
Staff Physician, Department of Critical Care, The Ottawa Hospital
Dr. Nathalie Caire Fon, MD, CCMF (SPA)
Director of the Department of Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine.
Associate Professor, Université de Montréal.
Holder of the Blanchard Family Chair for teaching and research
teaching and research in palliative care at the Université de Montréal.
Member of the Ordre de l’excellence en éducation du Québec
Faculté de Médicine, Université de Montréal
Dr. Eman Hassan, MD
Executive Director, BC Centre for Palliative Care Adjunct Professor, UBC Division of Palliative Care
Dr. Christopher MacKinnon, Ph.D.
Psychologist, co-Founder and Director of Training, Mont Royal Psychology, Faculty Lecturer, Department of Oncology, McGill University
Lynne McVey, RN, BSc, MScA, FHCMgt
Developer Executive Education for Nurses Associate Professor (adjunct)
Ingram School of Nursing
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences McGill University
Chief Executive Officer Santé Monde
International Co Development
Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa
Honorary Members
Balfour Mount, MD
See Governance for the Residence’s and Foundation’s board members.
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