On Tuesday, April 9 1p.m. -3p.m.

Dr. Robin Fainsinger graduated from the University of Cape Town in South Africa in 1981. He and his wife immigrated to Canada in 1985 and lived in rural Saskatchewan for a number of years, where Dr. Fainsinger worked as a Family Practitioner.

Dr. Fainsinger obtained the CCFP in 1990 and completed the first fellowship in palliative care medicine at the University of Alberta in the same year. Since then, he has worked with the Palliative Care Program at the Edmonton General Hospital and Grey Nuns Hospital. He is active in education and research, and has published articles on a number of palliative care topics, with an interest in dehydration, delirium and sedation at the end of life. His present research focus is on developing the Edmonton Classification System for Cancer Pain (ECS-CP). He has over 180 publications in journals and book chapters.