Stefanie Green is a Canadian physician known for her contributions to the field of assisted dying.
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| Born | Nova Scotia, Canada |
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| Occupation | Physician |
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Education and career
editGreen grew up in Nova Scotia, Canada, and pursued her education with undergraduate studies at the University of Toronto, followed by medical school at McGill University in Montreal. She completed her residency in Family Medicine at McGill University and further specialized through partial fellowships in palliative care and infant and maternal health. Her academic journey continued as Clinical Faculty at McGill University, where she was based at the Herzl Family Practice Centre in the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal. She later relocated to Toronto, affiliating with the University of Toronto while working as a teaching clinician associated with Wellesley Hospital, followed by St. Michael's Hospital. In 2002, she relocated once more to Victoria, British Columbia and continued her work as an academic clinician associated with both the University of British Columbia and the University of Victoria. Green worked as a family practitioner with a particular focus on maternity and newborn care.
In 2016, Green shifted her primary focus to Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) in British Columbia, Canada. She played a pivotal role in founding the Canadian Association of MAiD Assessors and Providers (CAMAP),[1] becoming its founding president, from 2016–2023. Under her guidance, CAMAP grew from a grassroots organization of colleagues looking for support in a new field of care to a national professional organization of subject matter experts on assisted dying, providing ongoing education, training, guidance documents, and peer support. It achieved charitable status in 2021.
Accomplishments and recognition
editGreen has published scholarly articles on assisted dying[2][3][4] and has been featured in numerous publications on the topic.[5][6][7] Since 2021, Green has also co-led the Canadian MAiD Curriculum Project,[8] an ongoing, multi-year, federally-funded, bilingual national MAiD training program.
Green published her first book, This is Assisted Dying: A Doctor’s Story of Empowering Patients at the End of Life in 2022.[9] It is currently available in 6 countries (Canada, USA, Australia, New Zealand, Korea, Poland) and 3 languages (English, Polish, Korean).
Green serves as a Medical Advisor to the BC MAiD Oversight and Advisory Committee,[10] contributing her expertise to inform the assisted dying program and end-of-life healthcare in British Columbia. Green is a national and international speaker on the topic of assisted dying,[11][12][13][14] and she has been featured on the TEDx platform with her talk "The Truth About Assisted Dying."[15]
Green's dedication to compassionate end-of-life care options and her fundamental role in establishing CAMAP highlight her expertise in the field of assisted dying. She has received international recognition for her advocacy and respect for patient autonomy.[16]
References
edit- ^ "CAMAP – Canadian Association of MAID Assessors and Providers".
- ^ "For people with dementia, changes in MAiD law offer new hope".
- ^ Wiebe, Ellen; Green, Stefanie; Wiebe, Kim (2021). "Medical assistance in dying (MAiD) in Canada: Practical aspects for healthcare teams". Annals of Palliative Medicine. 10 (3): 3586–3593. doi:10.21037/apm-19-631. PMID 32787380.
- ^ Downar, James; Green, Stefanie; Radhakrishnan, Arun; Wales, Joshua; Kim, George; Seccareccia, Dori; Wiebe, Kim; Myers, Jeff; Kawaguchi, Sarah (2018). "An entrustable professional activity descriptor for medical aid in dying: A mixed-methods study". CMAJ Open. 6 (4): E657–E663. doi:10.9778/cmajo.20180104. PMC 6303181. PMID 30578274.
- ^ Porter, Catherine (25 May 2017). "At His Own Wake, Celebrating Life and the Gift of Death". The New York Times.
- ^ "Doctor of MAID: New memoir tells story of Island pioneer in assisted dying". 27 March 2022.
- ^ "Medically assisted dying: Ex-BC maternity doctor helps terminally ill | Vancouver Sun".
- ^ "Curriculum – CAMAP".
- ^ Green, Stefanie (29 March 2022). This is Assisted Dying. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9781982129460.
- ^ "Patient Representative, Medical Assistance in Dying Oversight Advisory Committee".
- ^ "W5: A rare and intimate look into medical assistance in dying in Canada". YouTube.
- ^ "Canadians need to get better at talking about death, says pioneer in medically assisted dying". CBC. Retrieved 27 October 2023.
- ^ "BBC World Service - HARDtalk, Stefanie Green: The ethics of assisted dying".
- ^ "A fact-checked debate about euthanasia in Canada". YouTube.
- ^ "The truth about assisted dying | Dr. Stefanie Green | TEDxSurrey". YouTube.
- ^ "WFRTDS Awards 2018 presented in Cape Town South Africa - the World Federation of Right to die Societies". 7 September 2018.