Kerry Bowman, Bernard Dickens, The Hon. Sharon Carstairs
Monday May 13, 2013 - Manulife Healthcare Policy Roundtable Series Feature Event - Confronting End-of-Life Care: Patient Choices
The C.D. Howe Institute is pleased to welcome members back to the Manulife Healthcare Policy Roundtable Series. In its second year, this series continues to address the increasing demographic, fiscal and quality-of-care issues facing Canadian policy makers. As we launch the first Healthcare Roundtable of the year, the Institute is pleased to host Dr. Kerry Bowman, Dr. Bernard Dickens, and The Hon. Sharon Carstairs on the tough but necessary choices we need to make in end-of-life care.
Dr. Kerry Bowman has a Ph.D. in Bioethics, a fellowship in Cultural Psychiatry and a Masters degree in Social Work. Dr. Bowman is the Clinical Ethicist at Mount Sinai Hospital and teaches at the University of Toronto. Dr. Bowman lectures and publishes widely on ethics in health care, reproductive ethics, end-of-life care, cultural diversity, conflict resolution in health care, genomics and emerging medical technologies. He has consulted extensively on these topics in Germany, Iran, South Africa and The People's Republic of China.
Dr. Bernard Dickens is a member of the English Bar and the Ontario Bar, is Professor Emeritus of Health Law and Policy in the Faculty of Law, the Faculty of Medicine, and the Joint Centre for Bioethics at the University of Toronto. He is legal articles co-editor of the Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics, co-editor of ethical and legal issues of the International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, and a member of editorial boards of several journals including the American Journal of Law and Medicine and Medicine and Law.
In 1984, The Honourable Sharon Carstairs, P.C became Leader of the Liberal Party of Manitoba. She served as Federal Cabinet Minister from 2001 to 2003 as Leader of the Government in the Senate and Minister with Special Responsibility for Palliative Care. Sharon Carstairs has served as a member and as Chair of various Senate Committees, including two Committees which examined the issues of hospice palliative care and she served as Chair of the Special Senate Committee on Aging. She has released two special reports on palliative in Canada, one in 2005 and the most recent one in June 2010 on the state of palliative care in Canada, titled Raising the Bar.
The C.D. Howe Institute would like to thank Manulife Financial for sponsorship of the Healthcare Policy Roundtable Series.
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