Dying With Dignity in Jewish Law: 5th International Jewish Medical Ethics Conference, 2013
Presentations and a panel discussion on palliative care. Can palliative care and halacha coexist?
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Meet the speakers
Dr. Brian Berger
Dr. Brian Berger is the Physician Leader in the Department of Continuing Care, Rehabilitation and Palliative Care at Mackenzie Health Hospital in Richmond Hill and is in charge of the Palliative Care Unit. He is also a family physician with a large community-based palliative care practice. He has addressed several national and international conferences on end-of-life care, with a special focus on communication at the end of life. Dr. Berger feels that patients, staff, and families must work as a…
Dr. Jonathan Abrams
Dr. Jonathan Abrams is a home-care physician for the Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative Care, located in Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto. Prior to working at Mount Sinai, Dr. Abrams spent two years doing a fellowship at the Pain and Palliative Care Services Department at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, after he did his family medicine residency. Palliative care is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problem associated with…
Rabbi Dr. Avraham Steinberg
Prof. Steinberg was born in Hoff, Germany. He studied in the Rabbinic Academy of Yeshivat Harav Kook, Jerusalem after which he studied medicine and completed his internship in the Hebrew-University Hadassa Medical School, Jerusalem.Prof. Steinberg served as a Medical Officer in the Israeli Air Force. He was a resident in the department of Pediatrics, Shaare Zedek, and the department of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Hospital Medical Center, Bronx, New York, after which he became a fellow…