CBC The Current: Manitoba researcher wins prestigious award for work that made dignity the focus in palliative care

Dr. Harvey Max Chochinov, a groundbreaking palliative care researcher from the University of Manitoba, has won a prestigious international award for pioneering “dignity therapy” and other patient-centred approaches to caring for the dying.

A leader in the field of palliative care and communication, Chochinov’s approach that focusses on patient dignity has been adopted around the world. 

For more than 30 years, the distinguished professor of psychiatry at the University of Manitoba and senior scientist at the CancerCare Manitoba research institute studied how health-care workers can alleviate emotional and mental suffering for end-of-life patients in practical ways. 

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