Meet The Editors & Contributors

The Care of the Older Person explores multiple aspects of caregiving and wellbeing for the aging population. Each chapter has been contributed by a group of doctors and other professionals in dedicated areas of expertise.

Editors

Olivier Beauchet, MD, PhD

Howard Bergman, MD

Ronald Caplan, MD

Abraham Fuks, MD

Serge Gauthier, MD

Phil Gold, MD, PhD

José A. Morais, MD

Contributors

Karen Altfest, PhD

Paulina Bajsarowicz, MD

Jean Bourbeau, MD

Guy Hajj Boutros, MSc

Lysanne Campeau, MD, PhD

Julia Chabot, MD

A. Mark Clarfield, MD

Anne Croudass, RN

Philippe Desmarais, MD

Antonio di Carlo, MD

Liam Durcan, MD

Hao Feng, MD

Catherine Ferrier, MD

Jess Friedland, MD

Julia Gersovitz O.C.

Subhas Gupta, MD

Eric T. Hedge, MSc

Catalina Hernandez-Torres, MD

Jessica Holland, MD

Tina Hsu, MD

Antony Karelis, PhD

Sunil Karhadkar, MBBS

Sathya Karunananthan, PhD

Aziz Khan, MD

Young-San Kim, MD

Anna Eva Kinio, MD

Heather C. Lambert, PhD

Cyrille Launay, MD, PhD

Artin A. Mahdanian, MD

Dr. Louise Mallet, Pharm.D

Joseph A Markenson, MD

Carmelo Mastrandrea, MD

Joseph J. Montano, Ed.D

Silvia Monti De Flores, MD

Boris Morin-Defoy, M.Arch

P. David Myerowitz, MD

Peter M. Odell, MD

Erin O’Rorke, MD

Randy S. Perskin, Esq., JD

Astrid F. Pilgrim, MD

Michael R. Pinsky, MD

Bryan Ross, MD

Erica C. Roth, MD

Samer Shamout, MD

Barry L. Stein, MD

Oren K. Steinmetz, MDCM

Michael Stiffel, MD

Norman Straker, MD

Dominique Tessier, MD

Shachi Tyagi, MD

Doreen Wan-Chow-Wah, MD

Claire Webster, PAC, CPCA

Don White, PhD

Michael Wiseman, D.D.S

Mark Yaffe, MD

Haibin Yin, MD

Kevin Yip, MD

Linda Yue, MD

About McGill University

Many of the contributors and editors of The Care of the Older Person are part of the McGill University community. This publication is the result of collaboration with senior individuals in the McGill Division of Geriatric Medicine.

McGill University is one of Canada’s best-known institutions of higher learning and one of the leading universities in the world. With students coming to McGill from some 150 countries, the student body makes McGill one of the most internationally diverse research-intensive universities in the country.

Care of the Older Person is also listed on McGill’s website.

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