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Advocacy Report to the Regina Chapter of the STS
March 13th WEBINAR by Zoom from Noon to 1:00 pm
Presenter: Dr. Lillian Thorpe
Topic: MAID – Medical Assistance in Dying
Intro: An aging population and clinical, ethical and legal challenges to end of life choices, including Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID)
Abstract: As the population ages there has been increasing focus on the end of life, including discontinuation of interventions no longer bringing benefit, improving palliative care, and most recently allowing patients to access a medically assisted death. This has brought with it major clinical, legal, and ethical challenges, with highly polarized debate at many levels of society. This presentation from a geriatric psychiatrist will place MAID in the continuum of end of life care and explore the difficult balance between autonomy and protection of vulnerable people.
Bio:
* Geriatric psychiatrist in the Saskatchewan Health Authority
* Professor, Departments of Community Health & Epidemiology and Psychiatry
* Member of the (former) Saskatoon Health Region committee, which developed the MAID policy, and involved with approximately 800 assessments and/or clinical MAID provisions throughout the province since 2016.
* Invited witness to the Canadian Parliamentary Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying in view of its Statutory Review of the Provisions of the Criminal Code Relating to Medical Assistance in Dying and their Application (presentation on advanced consent for MAID), May 9, 2022
* Member, CAMAP working group in developing curriculum for assessing capacity in patients with comorbid mental illness applying for medical assistance in dying. June 2021-
* Member, Saskatchewan Health Authority/Saskatchewan Cancer Agency joint ethics committee, May 2, 2020 -
* Provider of MAID related teaching sessions at multiple U of S, Health Authority and conference settings.
* Active involvement in MAID related research, undergraduate teaching, residency teaching, and graduate supervision.
* Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, specialty committee in geriatric psychiatry, March 2011- June 2016
* Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada working group in geriatric psychiatry, November 2009 to March 2011
* Founding and Board member until January 2009, Canadian Academy of Geriatric Psychiatry
* Canadian Psychiatric Association (Chair on Geriatric Psychiatry until September 2008)
Lilian Thorpe BSc Hons (Math and Physics, U of Regina), MSc and M.D (University of Toronto), Ph.D. (Epidemiology, U of S), FRCP (psychiatry)
Lilian Thorpe MD, PhD, FRCP
Professor, Department of Community Health and Epidemiology and Psychiatry
Room 7027, Saskatoon City Hospital
701 Queen Street, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
S7K 0M7
March 13th WEBINAR by Zoom from Noon to 1:00 pm
Presenter: Dr. Lillian Thorpe
Topic: MAID – Medical Assistance in Dying
Intro: An aging population and clinical, ethical and legal challenges to end of life choices, including Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID)
Abstract: As the population ages there has been increasing focus on the end of life, including discontinuation of interventions no longer bringing benefit, improving palliative care, and most recently allowing patients to access a medically assisted death. This has brought with it major clinical, legal, and ethical challenges, with highly polarized debate at many levels of society. This presentation from a geriatric psychiatrist will place MAID in the continuum of end of life care and explore the difficult balance between autonomy and protection of vulnerable people.
Bio:
* Geriatric psychiatrist in the Saskatchewan Health Authority
* Professor, Departments of Community Health & Epidemiology and Psychiatry
* Member of the (former) Saskatoon Health Region committee, which developed the MAID policy, and involved with approximately 800 assessments and/or clinical MAID provisions throughout the province since 2016.
* Invited witness to the Canadian Parliamentary Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying in view of its Statutory Review of the Provisions of the Criminal Code Relating to Medical Assistance in Dying and their Application (presentation on advanced consent for MAID), May 9, 2022
* Member, CAMAP working group in developing curriculum for assessing capacity in patients with comorbid mental illness applying for medical assistance in dying. June 2021-
* Member, Saskatchewan Health Authority/Saskatchewan Cancer Agency joint ethics committee, May 2, 2020 -
* Provider of MAID related teaching sessions at multiple U of S, Health Authority and conference settings.
* Active involvement in MAID related research, undergraduate teaching, residency teaching, and graduate supervision.
* Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, specialty committee in geriatric psychiatry, March 2011- June 2016
* Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada working group in geriatric psychiatry, November 2009 to March 2011
* Founding and Board member until January 2009, Canadian Academy of Geriatric Psychiatry
* Canadian Psychiatric Association (Chair on Geriatric Psychiatry until September 2008)
Lilian Thorpe BSc Hons (Math and Physics, U of Regina), MSc and M.D (University of Toronto), Ph.D. (Epidemiology, U of S), FRCP (psychiatry)
Lilian Thorpe MD, PhD, FRCP
Professor, Department of Community Health and Epidemiology and Psychiatry
Room 7027, Saskatoon City Hospital
701 Queen Street, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
S7K 0M7