MAiD Data in Canada: What do the numbers tell us?
| Saturday, May 3, 2025 |
| 3:15 PM - 3:45 PM |
| Grand Ballroom AB |
Speaker(s)
Speaker: James Downar
Session Details
Objectives:
- Describe data from regulatory reports and demographic studies of MAID recipients.
- Interpret demographic and other observational data to evaluate the role of sociodemographic and illness factors in prompting MAID requests.
- Identify questions for future study in MAID practice.
Speaker
Division Head James Downar
Division Of Palliative Care, University Of Ottawa
Speaker
Biography
James Downar is the Head of the Division of Palliative Care at the University of Ottawa, where he also works as an Intensivist. He holds a Clinical Research Chair in Palliative and End-of-Life Care.
I do not intend to make therapeutic recommendations for medications that have not received regulatory approval (i.e. “off label” use of medications)
I have/had have an affiliation (financial or otherwise) with any for-profit or not-for-profit organizations.
Hold investments in a pharmaceutical organization, medical device company or communications firm, or a not-for-profit organization.
I do not intend to make therapeutic recommendations for medications that have not received regulatory approval (i.e. “off label” use of medications)
I have/had have an affiliation (financial or otherwise) with any for-profit or not-for-profit organizations.
Hold investments in a pharmaceutical organization, medical device company or communications firm, or a not-for-profit organization.
