MDs Signatories of the Declaration

Founding physicians and first signatories of the Physicians’ Alliance against Euthanasia’s Declaration.

• Balfour Mount MD, OC, OQ, FRCSC Emeritus Eric M. Flanders Professor of Medicine, McGill University.
• Patrick Vinay MD Nephrologist and palliative care physician, CHUM;Emeritus U of Montreal.
• Bernard J. Lapointe MD Eric M. Flanders Chair in Palliative Care, McGill University; Chief, Palliative Care Division, Jewish General Hospital.
• Serge Daneault MD, M.Sc., Ph.D., C.S.P.Q. Palliative care physician, CHUM (Notre-Dame Hospital); Consultant physician, Regional Public Health Department Montreal-Centre IRSPUM; Clinical assistant professor, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Montreal.
• Geneviève Dechêne MD Family physician and in home palliative care services, CSSS Verdun; Clinical lecturer, Department of Family Medicine, University of Montreal; Scientific Director of the Palli-Science website.
• Pierre Jacob Durand MD, MSc, FRCPC, CSPQ, FCMFC Professor, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine,Laval University; Scientific Director of the Centre d’excellence sur le vieillissement de Québec, Saint Sacrement Hospital, Quebec CHU.
• Sherif Emil MD, CM, FRCSC, FACS, FAAP Associate Professor of Paediatric Surgery, Surgery, and Paediatrics; Director, Division of Paediatric General Surgery; Associate Chair for Education & Departmental Citizenship, Department of Paediatric Surgery, McGill University Faculty of Medicine, Montreal Children’s Hospital, McGill University Health Centre.
• J. Donald Boudreau MD Associate Professor, Department of Medicine; Core Member, Centro for Medical Education; Director,Office of Physicianship Curriculum Development; former Associate Dean, Medical Education & Student Affairs, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Associate Professor, Arnold P. Gold Foundation.
• Robert Marchand MD Family physician, director of palliative care services, Verdun Hospital.
• Paola Diadori MD, FRCPC, MSc. Pediatric neurologist, CHU Ste-Justine.
• Gerald Batist MD Professor, Departments of Medicine and Oncology,McGill University; Director, Department of Oncology, McGill University; Director, McGill Centre for Translational Research in Cancer.
• André Bourque MD Associate professor,Department of Family and Emergency Medicine, University of Montreal; Chief, Department of General Medicine, CHUM. Note Dr. Bourque passed away on 29 December 2012.
• José A. Morais MD, FRCPC Associate Professor and Director, Division of Geriatric Medicine, MUHC and McGill University.
• Anna Towers MDCM, FCFP Physician, Palliative Care Services, McGill University Health Centre.
• Abraham Fuks MD, CM Professor of Medicine, McGill University.
• Mark Basik MD, FRCSC Surgical Oncologist, Sir Mortimer B. Davis-Jewish General Hospital; Assistant Professor, Department of Oncology, McGill University.
• Paul Saba MD Family physician, Lachine Hospital (MUHC).
• Catherine Ferrier MD, FCFP Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, McGill University; Director of Competency Assessment Clinic, Division of Geriatric Medicine, McGill University Health Centre.
• Ewa Sidorowicz MDCM, FRCP(C), MSc Director of Professional Services, McGill University Health Centre.
• Michelle Dallaire MD Palliative care physician, diploma in bioethics, Assistant professor at the Faculty of Medicine since 2000 (University of Montreal).
• Marc Beauchamp MD, FRCSC Orthopedic surgeon.
• Caroline Girouard MD, SRCP Hematologist, oncologist, Sacré-Coeur Hospital in Montreal.
• Douglass Dalton, MD, MDCM, CCFP, FCFP Assistant Professor and Postgraduate Program Director, Department of Family Medicine, McGill University.

List of All Signatories who agreed to have their name published