October PCSBV Newsletter 2023

OCTOBER 19-26, 2023

PALLIATIVE CARE SOCIETY OF THE BOW VALLEY PRESENTS:

Community Summit: Compassion & Care Compassion & Care A WEEK LONG SERIES OF INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS

Meet the Special Guests

Our dream is that everyone is hopeful and prepared when facing a life-changing diagnosis. ​We all can learn how to advocate for ourselves by being fully informed along the illness journey. We'll show you how by offering simple, practical things to do right away. Together we can transform the illness experience.

DR. SAMMY WINEMAKER

Dr. Winemaker is a palliative care doctor who has spent her career caring for patients with serious illness and their families. She teaches palliative care to heath care professionals as an Associate Clinical Professor at McMaster University. She participates in many speaking engagement around the world and her work and passion for palliative care has won her several awards, including one of her most recent the Dr. S. Lawrence Librach Award for Palliative Medicine in the Community in 2019.

DR. HSEIN SEOW

Dr. Seow is the Canada Research Chair in Palliative Care and Health System Innovation and a Professor at McMaster University, Department of Oncology. His focus is on improving palliative care delivery and the care experience, particularly in the home and community. His expertise is in health services and policy research, quality measurement, population-based analytics, and program evaluation. As with Dr. Winemaker, he also participates as a presenter for many events around the world. He has also won the New Investigator Award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research in 2015.

Together, Dr. Winemaker and Dr. Seow are part of Palliative Care Innovation Palliative Care Innovation - an organization working to better understand the - an organization working to better understand the current state of palliative care and to bring resources, programs, tools and stories to the community. They have teamed up as co- founders and co-hosts on a popular podcast called The Waiting Room Revolution Waiting Room Revolution, dedicated to conversations about palliative , dedicated to conversations about palliative care, and more recently, they co-authored the book, Hope for the Best, Plan for the Rest Hope for the Best, Plan for the Rest, which just hit the market in September , which just hit the market in September 2023.

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