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Organized by: Cardus — https://www.eventbrite.com/o/9749638055Join our Communio Vancouver Launch with Dr. Leonie Herx
Dr. Leonie Herx is a palliative care physician and clinical professor in the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary. She is a Cardus senior fellow, research associate with Pallium Canada for the Canadian Atlas of Palliative Care project and Scientific Director for the Covenant Palliative Institute.
Leonie’s work in palliative care focuses on increasing capacity for access to high quality palliative care through program development, models of care, education standards, improving awareness regarding the benefits of early palliative care, and normalizing dying and death as a natural part of life.
Over the past 18 years, Leonie has been actively involved in growing and building the discipline of palliative medicine at a national level. She co-founded the new Royal College Subspecialty in Palliative Medicine and is the Chair of the Royal College Specialty Committee for Palliative Medicine. She has contributed to the development of both federal and provincial policy and legislation related to palliative care, including consultations with the federal government on Bill C277 and Health Canada to establish the National Framework for Palliative Care in Canada and its Action Plan. She has been invited as an expert witness to various parliamentary committees regarding the impacts of legalization, implementation and expansion of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) in Canada, including Bill C7 and the federal government’s 2022 Statutory Review of Medical Assistance in Dying.
Leonie speaks regularly to international audiences about the impacts of the Canadian MAID regime on the practice of medicine and palliative care. Leonie is passionate about advocating for the integrity of authentic palliative care and maintaining its distinction from euthanasia, ensuring Canadians have the supports they need to live well and flourish throughout illness, dying and death.
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Blue Horizon Hotel, 1225 Robson Street, Vancouver, BC V6E 1C3, CA, Canada
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