The Sunflower- Palliative Care Podcasts

Join host Rachel Neufeld  in conversation with Dr. Naheed Dosani. Dr. Dosani is a Palliative Care Physician, with the Department of Family & Community Medicine, St Michael's Hospital, Unity Health Toronto; Founder & Lead, Palliative Education And Care for the Homeless (PEACH), Inner City Health Associates; Medical Director/Health Equity Lead, Kensington Hospice/Kensington Health; Health Equity Advisor, Canadian Partnership Against Cancer; and Assistant Professor, Department of Family & Community Medicine, University of Toronto.@PedPallCareCA@twoworldscancerhttps://www.virtualhospice.ca/en_US/Main+Site+Navigation/Home/Support/Resources/Programs+and+Services/Provincial/Ontario/Local+palliative+care+programs_services/PEACH+_+Palliative+Education+and+Care+for+the+Homeless.aspx

Join host Rachel Neufeld  in conversation with Dr. Mark Stoltenberg, Medical Director of the home-based palliative care program at Massachusetts General Hospital and an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School in the United States.Rachel is one of our regular hosts, a TWCC volunteer and a nurse practitioner at Canuck Place Children's Hospice.https://doctors.massgeneralbrigham.org/specialty/Hospice%20and%20Palliative%20Care

Join Two Worlds Cancer Collaboration Director Camara van Breemen in conversation with Dr. Gayatri Palat, Professor of Palliative Medicine at Mehdi Nawaz Jung Institute of Oncology and Regional Cancer Centre in Telangana, India. Dr. Gayatri is also a founding member of the Pain and Relief Palliative Care Society in Hyderabad and TWCC's  program director in India. Camara, Director of community care and provincial outreach at Canuck Place Children's Hospice in Vancouver, Canada, is one of our regular podcast hosts.

Join Two Worlds' Camara van Breemen, a nurse practitioner at Canuck Place Children's Hospice in Vancouver, Canada, in conversation with ICPCN's Professor Julia Downing as they talk about building children's palliative care capacity globally.https://icpcn.org/

In the final episode of our serious on research in Children's Palliative Care, join Rachel Neufeld, a nurse practitioner and Two Worlds Cancer Collaboration volunteer, in conversation with nursing researcher Gail Andrews, research manager at Canuck Place Children's Hospice, as they discuss translating knowledge into clinical care.

Join Rachel Neufeld as she speaks with Dr Manon Ranger, a nurse and researcher, at British Columbia Children's Hospital Research Institutes.

Host Rachel Neufeld interviews Dr. Hal Sidon from Canuck Place about experiences with research in the field of children's palliative care.

Dr Natasha Datoo speaks with Dr Krishna Saga about his experiences developing and Implementing a National Children's Palliative Care Training Package for doctors and nurses in Nepal

In this episode, Dr. Md Shaidur Rahman from Bangladesh reflects on his experiences in the Children's Palliative Care Leadership Program, changing the focus from only cure to holistic care for children with serious illness.

In the 2nd of this 4 part series, Dr Natasha Datoo speaks with Roshani Laxmi Tuitui, an experienced Nurse Leader in Nepal, about her experiences learning and developing her leadership skills as she develops a national children's palliative care training program. This training program was recently featured on eHospice https://ehospice.com/inter_childrens_posts/development-of-national-paediatric-palliative-care-training-manual-for-doctors-and-nurses-in-nepal/

Join host Dr Natasha Datoo in this 4 part series, featuring interviews with clinicians in Children's Palliative Care Leadership Program. In this first episode, Natasha speaks with Dr. Archana Iyengar about her experiences learning and developing her leadership skills as she develops a new perinatal palliative care program in Hyderabad, India. Read more about this innovative program here https://ehospice.com/inter_childrens_posts/leadership-in-childrens-palliative-care-recent-news-from-around-the-globe/

The third episode on our series "Through a Nurses Lens", join guest host, Rachel Neufeld, a Two Worlds Cancer Collaboration Volunteer and Canuck Place Children's Hospice Nurse Practitioner, as she speaks with Melanie Hameluck, an oncology and palliative care nurse at Canuck Place and British Columbia Children's Hospital.

The second episode on our series "Through a Nurses Lens", join guest host, Rachel Neufeld, a Two Worlds Cancer Collaboration Volunteer and Canuck Place Children's Hospice Nurse Practitioner, as she speaks with Rebecca Woodward, a nurse at Canuck Place.

Building and sustaining palliative care requires strong leadership, join guest host, Chuck Russel, as he discusses leadership in Palliative Care with Dr Megan Doherty. Hear how the Children's Palliative Care Leadership Program is supporting leaders in South and Southeast Asia.

In the first episode of our 3 part series "Through a Nurses Lens", join guest host, Rachel Neufeld, a Two Worlds Cancer Collaboration Volunteer and Canuck Place Children's Hospice Nurse Practitioner, as she speaks with Rachel Schmidt, a nurse at Canuck Place.

Part 2 of Dr. Spandana Rayala's conversation with Basma Ismail, Taiba Borhamah, and Sara Zayed from the Kuwait Association for the Care of Children in Hospital (KACCH) and Bayt Abdullah Children's Hospice (BACCH). Together KACCH and BACCH support children with serious and life-limiting conditions and their families, both during hospitalizations as well as at home and in the hospice.

Dr. Spandana Rayala speaks with Basma Ismail, Taiba Borhamah, and Sara Zayed from the Kuwait Association for the Care of Children in Hospital (KACCH) and Bayt Abdullah Children's Hospice (BACCH). Together KACCH and BACCH support children with serious and life-limiting conditions and their families, both during hospitalizations as well as at home and in the hospice.

Dr Erin Kwolek discusses her work using Balint and other types of reflective practice to strengthen and support palliative care clinicians to prevent burnout.

Join Camara Van Breemen, as she chats with music therapist Michaela Wallis about how music can support children and their families in the setting of serious illness.

Join guest host, Rachel Neufeld, as she speaks with Senior Staff Nurse Lailatul Ferdous, a pioneering palliative care nurse from Bangladesh.

Host Spandana Rayala speaks with Megan Doherty about building capacity in children's palliative care around the world.

In this episode, listen as Max Watson, Raj Gopal, Chris Piromalli, and Megan Doherty reflect on their experiences using Project ECHO to train thousands of health providers in palliative care, focussing on those in resource-limited settings. This podcast is a co-release with MetaECHO and Hospice UK.

Palliative care nurse, Erin Das, describes her experiences developing nursing leadership programs in Kenya and in Bangladesh.

Dr Smriti Khanna describes experiences of implementing palliative care for children with a wide variety of serious illnesses at a tertiary children's hospital. The team provides comprehensive support with nurses, doctors, counsellors, psychologists, as well as a therapeutic clown and play and toy librarian.

Earlier this year at the MetaECHO Conference in New Mexico, Dr Megan Doherty was able to catch up with Dr. Rajagopal. He shared his wisdom and insights about what it takes to provide compassionate care.

Dr Mike McNeil, Director St. Jude Global Palliative Care Program, shares his insights about developing palliative care around the world.

Join host Megan Doherty at Meta-ECHO, in New Mexico, where she talks with Max Watson about the potential of Project ECHO to reach health care providers around the world with knowledge of palliative care.

Listen as Dr. Ximena Garcia reflects on how she and her team overcame obstacles to develop a pediatric palliative care team, in a resource limited setting.

Alex Daniels, an experienced palliative care nurse and education coordinator for the international children's palliative care network (ICPCN) discusses her experiences leading and teaching in palliative care.

Palliative care social worker, Sarah Allan-Wiseman discusses grief in children's palliative care and how best to support parents.

Natasha Datoo and Camara Van Breemen discuss their experiences and describe effective techniques to address a family's worries and fears when introducing palliative care into their child's care.

Host Camara Van Breemen interviews Sarah Ho about her and her family's experiences with palliative care when her son, Mitchell, received end-of-life care at Canuck Place Children's Hospice.

In this episode, Megan chats with Dr. Erin Kwolek a pediatric respirologist and palliative care physician, exploring the intersection of palliative care and respiratory medicine.

Welcome to the first episode of the Sunflower Podcast, a podcast exploring all aspects of children's palliative care around the world. In this first episode Dr Megan Doherty chats with Dr. Natasha Datoo from Canuck Place Children's Hospice (Vancouver, Canada) about her work as a pediatric palliative care physician.