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Dr. Larry Librach has been a tireless Champion for hospice palliative care in Canada, and continuously worked to improve hospice palliative care for all throughout his career.
On April 29th at the Hospice Palliative Care Ontario Conference, the Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association (CHPCA) honored Dr. Larry Librach with the Balfour Mount Champion Award. Normally this honor is awarded at the CHPCA National Conference, however the award presentation was moved to coincide with the hospice palliative care community’s tribute luncheon to Dr. Librach.
Dr. Librach’s involvement in palliative care began in 1978. Dr. Librach is the co-founder of the Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative Care at Mount Sinai Hospital, and served as the Director for over 20years, and most recently as the Leader for Continuous Quality Improvement for the Centre.
Dr Librach was the W. Gifford-Jones Professor in Pain Control and Palliative Care at the University of Toronto from 1999-2011, and continues to hold the position of full professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. He was the first Head of the Division of Palliative Care in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto from 2007-2011. Dr. Librach is the Sun Life Financial Chair in Bioethics and the Director of the Joint Centre for Bioethics at the University of Toronto. He is a member of the University of Toronto’s Centre for the Study of Pain. He is an academic educator with the Centre for Professional Development at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. He was the physician leader of the national Educating Future Physicians for Palliative and End of Life Care Project (EFPPEC) which introduced curriculum in palliative and end-of-life care to Canada’s 17 medical schools. He is an education consultant to the Education in Palliative & End-of-Life Care (EPEC) project in the USA. He is the Past President of the Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association. He is a board member of the Room 217 Foundation, a music therapy foundation.
Dr. Librach is the recipient of a number of awards from a number of organizations including the Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association, the Ontario Palliative Care Association, the Ontario Medical Association, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, and the University of Toronto.
Dr. Librach’s academic interests are wide-ranging but the development and implementation of education programs, quality of care and patient safety are areas of special interest. He has delivered over 500 lectures and workshops.
Dr. Librach has published extensively and is the author of the Pain Manual (over 150,000 copies distributed) and co-edited a textbook, Palliative Care: Core Skills and Clinical Competencies which is into its second edition.
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