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Harvey Chang, MD, FRCPC completed his medical training at McGill University (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 McGill University. Since 2000, he has also been the Medical Team Leader of the Palliative Care Unit of the JGH. |
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Marcia Gillman, MD, CCFP has been a member of the Jewish General Hospital's Department of Family Medicine since 1994 and is a Faculty Lecturer with McGill University's Faculty of Medicine. She joined the JGH's Division of Palliative Care in 2000 as a member of the Supportive Care Team consult service, and since 2014 she has been an attending physiciain on the hospital's Palliative Care Unit. As well, she is a member of the JGH's Pulmonary Oncology Interdisciplinary team and she holds weekly clinics for symptom management of outpatients with advanced lung cancer. She has a particular interest in the use of cannabinoids as part of the supportive management of cancer patients, and has lectured at Continuing Professional Development events at the national level on the role of cannibinoids in cancer care. |
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Dr. Bernard Lapointe was born in Montréal and studied medicine at the Université de Sherbrooke. He became involved with the care of the dying in the mid-80s while working in one of the citys' busiest AIDS clinics, La Clinique Médicale l'Actuel. From 1989-1991, he served as Chief of the Bureau of Care Treatment and Support at the Federal Centre for AIDS (Health Canada) and continued his palliative / AIDS practice in Montreal. He then joined Balfour Mount's team at the Royal Victoria Hospital as a full-time physician. He joined the Jewish General Hospital team as Chief of Division on Supportive Care and Palliative Care in September 2000. He is an associate professor of Palliative Medicine in the departments of both Family Medicine and Oncology at McGill University. In July 2009 he was appointed as the Eric M. Flanders Chair in Palliative Medicine, McGill University, and as the Director of Palliative Care McGill, Dept. of Oncology, McGill University. He is past-President of the Palliative Care Association of Québec, and of the Canadian Palliative Care Association and served on the Board of the International Associaton for Hospice Palliative Care. He is currently a member of the Board of the Canadian Society of Palliative Care Physicians, and of the Quebec Society of Palliative Care Physicians. Dr. Lapointe is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Palliative Care and is the Chair of the International Congress on Palliative Care that will be held in Montreal in October 2016. Dr. Lapointe's interest in research revolves around the development of new analgesics for cancer pain, and support to the family caregivers of patients at the end-of-their-life. In 2002, he was the recipient of the Golden Jubilee Medal in commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of Her Majesty Elizabeth II Accession to the Throne and for his contribution to the development of palliative care in Canada. He also received in 2012 the Diamond Jubilee Medal in commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of Her Majesty Elizabeth II in recognition of his contribution to Canada. In 2007 he was awared the 2007 Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Award of excellence. In 2016 he received the highest recognition from the Association québecois de soins palliatifs, le prix Reconnaissance. Dr. Lapointe is a dedicated photographer and he has had the privilege of exhibitng in a few galleries in Montreal and in Magog, Quebec. |
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Dr. Philippe Michel received his medical degree in 1994 from Nancy University Medical School, France. He is an emergency, geriatric, and palliative care physician and he joined the JGH’s Division of Palliative Care full time in 2017. Living in Québec since 2015, Dr. Michel started at Hotel Dieu Hospital in Sorel-Tracy (hospitalization, ICU, LTC, home palliative care). He has practiced as an emergency physician in different hospital in France for over 10 years and also on a remote site in Africa (mining , petroleum and natural gas concession). |
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Dr. Jean Zigby is a family and palliative care physician with a broad practice base including breastfeeding, perinatal and home care. He was trained at McGill University and is currently teaching at the Jewish General Hospital and the CLSC Cote-des-Neiges in Montreal. He has practiced in hospital, clinic, rural and home-based environments for over 15 years in the province of Québec. He is the co-founder of the not-for-profit business Synergie Santé Environment, an organization which works with healthcare institutions to improve their environmental impacts in Quebec. He is the current president of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment. |