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Harvey Max Chochinov- Dignity Conserving Care
Canada Research Chair in Palliative Care
Harvey Max Chochinov OM
(b.1958)
University of Manitoba, M.D. 1983, Ph.D. 1998
University of Winnipeg, B.A. 1993
Harvey Max Chochinov leads a team of researchers that have generated some of the first empirical data addressing how dignity can be understood in end of life care. Harvey Max Chochinov is internationally recognized as a leader in palliative care research. He is a Professor of Psychiatry, Community Health Sciences, and Family Medicine (Division of Palliative Care), University of Manitoba, and Director of the Manitoba Palliative Care Research Unit, CancerCare Manitoba. He did his undergraduate medical training and Psychiatric Residency at the University of Manitoba. He also completed a Fellowship in Psychiatric Oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York. In 1998, he completed a PhD in the Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba.
Harvey has been doing palliative care research since 1990 with funding support from local, provincial and national granting agencies. He is a grantee of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and the National Institute of Health. His work has explored various psychiatric dimensions of palliative medicine. 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. His research was also cited in many of the amicus briefs presented to the Supreme Court of the United States, in their prior deliberations regarding the constitutionality of physician-assisted suicide. He is the Co-Chair for the Canadian Virtual Hospice.
Harvey 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, Europe and Japan. He is the only psychiatrist in Canada to be designated as a Soros Faculty Scholar, Project on Death in America. He holds the only Canada Research Chair in Palliative Care, is a recipient of the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal and has received the Order of Manitoba for his work in palliative care. In addition to many other publications, he is the 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.
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