Healthcare Conferences Canada is pleased to welcome Institutions, agencies, providers of service in psychology and counselling that serve and care for patients, families and ethno-cultural communities dealing with addiction, mental illness and homelessness. You are welcome to display your print resources, therapy aids, counselling resources and other multi-form services at our 18th Annual Mental Health Conference on Addiction, Homelessness & Mental Illness among Youth & Adult to be held on October 22nd, 2026. Your presence, support and participation will be valuable to the care-providers participating at our Conference.
If you wish to reserve your slot in advance, please contact
us:
Ms. Calista Anne Mervis
Executive Assistant - HCCI
10 Pinemore Crescent, Toronto, Ontario, M3A 1W6.
416 444 8455
info@careconferences.com
With an academic and clinical focus on ethno-cultural, religious, spiritual and social pluralism that is an integral part of the Canadian social composition, we organize three conferences annually on:
➤ Palliative and Supportive Care at the End of Life Context
➤ Mental Health Issues among New Canadians
➤ Enhancing the Quality of Medical Interpretation to improve the Delivery of Care
➤ Professor Dr. Daren Heyland, MD, FRCP(C), MSc
➤ Professor Dr. Daniel P. Sulmasy, AB, MD, PhD(USA)
➤ Professor Dr. Joseph A. Chandrakanthan, PhD(Ottawa), ThD(St. Paul)
➤ Professor Dr. José Pereira, MBChB, DA, CCFP, MSc(MEd)
➤ Professor Dr. Timothy Domer, MD, ABHPM(USA)
➤ Professor Dr. Peter Selby, MBBS, CCFP, FCFP, MHSc, DipABAM
➤ Professor Dr. John R. Van Eenwyk, PhD(Chicago)
➤ Professor Dr. Joel Sadavoy, MD, FRCOP(C)
➤ Professor Dr. Kwame McKenzie, MD, MRCPsych(UK)
➤ Professor Dr. Vicky Stergiopoulos, MD, MHSc, MSc, BSc
➤ Dr. Sr. Helen Prejean, CSJ, PhD(HC)(USA)
➤ Dr. Lisa Ramshaw, BSc (McGill), MD(McMaster), PhD(Oxford)
➤ Mr. Steve Abdool, RN, MA(Lond), PhD(Can.)
2026 - 17thAnnual Conference on Palliative & End of Life Care – The Last Days & the Last Hours: Listening and Speaking to the Dying
2025 - 16thAnnual Conference on Palliative & End of Life Care -Heeding the Needs of the Dying:
Approaches to Compassionate Cares
2024 - 15th Annual Conference on
Palliative & End of Life Care - Death & Dying in A Digital Age:
Person-Centred Medical Care
& the use of Digital Technology
2019 - 14th Annual Conference on
Palliative & End of Life Care - The Last Days & the Last Hours: Caring for the Dying
&
their Families
2018 - 13th Annual Conference on
Palliative & End of Life Care - Care of the Actively Dying: Melding Quality with
Compassion
2017 - 12th
Annual Conference on
Palliative & End of Life Care - Care at the Close of Life: Experience &
Expectations
2016 - 11th Annual Conference on
Palliative & End of Life Care - Living Well Until Dying: End Stage Dementia, Cancer
& Stroke
2015
- 10th Educational Conference
on Palliative & End of Life Care - Dying Peacefully: Clinical, Emotional, Familial &
Spiritual Perspectives
2014 -
Living Before Dying:
Blending Quality with Compassion
2013 -
Caregiver Exposure to Death
& Dying: Experience, Impacts & Responses
2012 - Dying
in Canada: Medical,
Cultural & Spiritual Communication in Palliative Care
2011 - Dying in
Old Age : Context
& Community
2010
- Terminal Illnesses: Living
with the Dying in Canada
2009 -
Supportive Care when Death
is Near
2008 - Hope &
the Last Days of
Living
2007 - Dying
in a Technological
Society
2006 - Dying
in a Multicultural Society
2025 - 17thAnnual Conference on Mental Health -Mental Illness & Shared Care:
Substance Addiction, Domestic Violence & Homelessness
2024 - 16th Annual Conference on Mental Health - Staying in or Stepping out:
Drug Use, Homelessness & Addictive Behaviours among Youth & Adults
2023 -
Surging High or Staying Well: Addiction & Mental Health Matters among Adolescents,
Students & Young Adults
2019 - Resilience & Recuperation:
Treating Youth & Adults with Addiction, Criminality &
Behavioural Disorders in a Multicultural Society
2018 - From Dusk to Dawn:
Addiction, Domestic Violence & Homelessness
2017 - Nowhere to Go:
Homelessness, Addiction, Criminality & Mental Illness among Youth
& Adults
2016 - Collaborative Care:Youth,
Adults and Seniors with Mental Illness
2015 -
Addiction,
Homelessness, Forensics & Mental Illness
2014 - Facet of
Mental Illness
Among Youth & Adults
2013
-
Mental Illness, Offending
Behaviours & Criminal Justice Services
2012 - Addiction, Criminality &
Mental Illness: Mind, Body and Society
2011 - Child & Youth Mental
Illness
2010 -
Mental
Health and Visible
Minorities
2009 -
Cultural Diversity &
Mental Illness
2008 - Refugees &
Mental
Illness
2007 -
Migration and Mental
Illness
2006 -
Culture Spirituality &
Mental Illness
Healthcare Conferences Canada Inc. (HCCI) is a multi-disciplinary Educational service initiative established by caregivers, clinical professionals, medical students, and other allied healthcare workers enthusiastically involved in the delivery of care. In the context of Canada’s multicultural communities, we envisage an informative and innovative integration of the cultural, and spiritual resources as invaluable components of the delivery of a person and family centered holistic care.
To enhance professionalism in the delivery of person focused care within the multicultural mosaic of Canada through an effective and innovative educational opportunity for the benefit of patients, families and caregivers.
➤ Mr. STEVE ABDOOL, RN, MA, (Lond), PhD (Can.)
➤ Dr. KRISHNA KUMAR GNANASEKARAN PhD
➤ Professor Dr. JOSEPH A. CHANDRAKANTHAN, PhD (Ottawa) ThD, (St. Paul)
➤ Professor Dr. TIMOTHY DOMER, MD, ABHPM
➤ Executive Director: INDRAN K. THEIVENDRAN
➤ Executive Assistant: CALISTA ANNE MERVIS
➤ Dr. KRISHNA KUMAR GNANASEKARAN PhD
➤ HELEN ANTON, York University
➤ PAUL ANTON, Ryerson University
➤ JUDE FRANCIS, Brunel University
➤ AVERILL CHE, University of Toronto
➤ ALFRED KU, University of Toronto
➤ T. MARC KEVIN
