Visiting Scholars

Visitors to NELS deliver formal lectures, engage in formal or informal discussions and meet with our team members to share ideas and mutual interests.

Past Visitors

NELS regularly hosts experts in various aspects of palliative and end of life care to present their research in Halifax. Below is a list of a number of these visiting scholars.

Presentation slides are linked as PDFs when available.

2016

Dr. Mette Asbjørn Neergaard

Consultant in palliative medicine for the Palliative Care Team and the Children’s Palliative Care Team at Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark

October 2016
Presentation

2013

David Currow

Professor, Palliative & Supportive Services, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia
Chief Cancer Officer, New South Wales, and Chief Executive Officer of the Cancer Institute, New South Wales, Australia

October 2013

Presented:

  • Update in Palliative Medicine: Evidence to Practice for the Internist
  • Building a Learning Health Care System: Practice-Based Evidence
  • Rapid Pharmacovigilance: Lessons Learned
  • Shared Care: Patient, Family Physician and Specialist
  • Models of Palliative and Supportive Cancer Care

2012

2012

Kelli Stajduhar

Co-Associate Director Research & Scholarship, School of Nursing, Centre on Aging,
University of Victoria

2010

Vickie Baracos

Professor, Palliative Care Medicine, Department of Oncology, University of Alberta
Cross Cancer Institute

November 2010

Presented:

Allan Kellehear

Former Director of Centre for Death and Society,
University of Bath, UK

October 2010

Presented:

Kevin Brazil

Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics and
Division of Palliative Care in the Department of Family Medicine, McMaster University
St. Joseph's Health System Research Network

January 2010

Presented:

2009

David Kuhl

Centre for Practitioner Renewal, St. Paul's Hospital, BC

April 2009

Presented:

  • Sustaining Health Care Providers

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R. Sean Morrison

Geriatric and Palliative Medicine, Mont Sinai Hospital,
New York

February 2009

Presented:

2008

Konrad Fassbender

Assistant Professor, Department of Oncology, University of Alberta

October 2008

Presented:

Scott Murray

Family Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Centre for Population Health Sciences

 

May 2008

Presented:

Serge Dumont

Social Work, Université Laval
Economic Assessment of Palliative Care in Five Canadian Cities, Including Halifax

 

March 2008

Costs associated with resource utilization during the palliative phase of care: A Canadian perspective.
Pallitat Medicine. 2009; in press (e-published Oct 16, 2009

2007

Harvey Chochinov

Director, Manitoba Palliative Care Research Unit, CancerCare Manitoba
Professor, School of Psychiatry, University of Manitoba

 

October 2007

Dying with Dignity

Craig Earle

Clinical Research
Dana Farber Cancer Institute, now ICES Quality End
of Life Care Measures

 

September 2007

Presented:

Dan Hausman

Professor, Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Madison

 

March 2007

Presented: