Graeme Rocker

Dr Graeme Rocker is a Professor of Medicine, a Respirologist and a Senior Clinical Research Scholar at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. He graduated from the Oxford University Clinical Medical School and did most of his postgraduate training in Oxford or Nottingham. His research into Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome led to a Doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1989. He received a Masters degree in Bioethics from the University of Toronto in 2001. Dr Rocker was President of...See more

Dr Graeme Rocker is a Professor of Medicine, a Respirologist and a Senior Clinical Research Scholar at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. He graduated from the Oxford University Clinical Medical School and did most of his postgraduate training in Oxford or Nottingham. His research into Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome led to a Doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1989. He received a Masters degree in Bioethics from the University of Toronto in 2001. Dr Rocker was President of the Canadian Critical Care Society 2002- 2004 and secretary of the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group from 1998-2002. Dr Rocker has focused his recent end of life care research activities on patients and diseases that fall outside of traditional palliative medicine and is cross-appointed locally in the Division of Palliative Medicine in Halifax. Dr Judith Nelson received her JD from Harvard Law School and MD from New York University School of Medicine. She completed internal medicine residency and fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, where she joined the faculty of the Division of Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine of the Department of Medicine in 1992. Dr. Nelson is Associate Director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit of Mount Sinai Hospital and a member of the faculty of the Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute in Mount Sinai's Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development. Her subspecialty certifications include Palliative Medicine as well as Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine. Kathleen Puntillo is Professor and Co-Director of the Critical Care/Trauma graduate program at University of California San Francisco School of Nursing. She maintains an active program of research on pain in critically ill patients; procedural pain; symptoms in ICU patients at high risk of dying; and ICU palliative care. She regularly provides nursing care to ICU patients in partnership with ICU nurses. She has numerous publications and has been invited to give numerous presentations on pain, other symptoms, and end-of-life topics, both in the United States and internationally. Elie Azoulay, MD, PhD is Professor of Medicine at the University of Paris 7, France, as well as the Director assistant of the medical ICU at the Saint-Louis Teaching Hospital in Paris. He is a member of the Ethics Section of ESICM and on the editorial board of Intensive Care Medicine. From his background of respiratory care physician, he is mostly interested in pulmonary complications in immunocompromized patients. He has also largely contributed to the literature reporting improvements in survival of critically ill cancer patients. Furthermore, he serves as the Director of the French FAMIREA study group, which is aimed at improving the effectiveness of communication with family members of ICU patients. See less