{"id":697,"date":"2014-03-12T16:34:20","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T20:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vivredignite.org\/?page_id=697"},"modified":"2025-10-11T16:47:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T20:47:11","slug":"team","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/about-us\/team\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Team"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Board Members<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Mr Alex King
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Chair of the Board<\/h5>\n

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Alex King has an MBA from Edinburgh Business School and a graduate diploma in French from the Chartered Institute of Linguists. He has had a 30+ year career in fundraising in the non-profit sector in the UK and in Canada. Over the past few years, he has been involved in philanthropy for McGill University, the Montreal General Hospital Foundation, and Le Verbe m\u00e9dias. <\/p>\n


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Dr. Catherine Ferrier<\/h4>\n

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Dr. Catherine Ferrier is a family physician and holds a Certificate of Special Competence in Care of the Elderly from the College of Family Physicians of Canada. She has worked for over 40 years in the Division of Geriatric Medicine of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC), where she sees patients suffering from ailments related to aging, especially neurocognitive disorders, as well as specializing in assessment of decision-making capacity. She is Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at McGill University.<\/p>\n

Ms Mich\u00e8le Boulva<\/h4>\n

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Passionate about all issues and debates regarding life, education and the family, Mich\u00e8le Boulva has spent her career working as a journalist, public relations officer and manager. With a bachelor’s degree in family education, she is the mother of three children and grandmother of 10 grandchildren. She is committed to building a society that respects human life until natural death. She has been closely associated with Living with Dignity since the network was founded, and for the past eight years has had the privilege of acting as caregiver to her mother.<\/p>\n

Mrs Marie Bourque<\/h4>\n

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Marie Bourque is a teacher by training. Passionate about youth and formation of people, she has been heavily involved in educational circles for many years. She has always had at heart the promotion and defense of the rights of parents, first and foremost educators of their children. Wife of Dr. Andr\u00e9 Bourque (who died in December 2012), who was co-founder of the citizen network Living with Dignity and of the Physician\u2019s Alliance against euthanasia. She is also a mother and grandmother of several grandchildren.<\/p>\n

Mr Cory Andrew Labrecque<\/h4>\n

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Cory Andrew Labrecque, PhD, is Associate Professor of Bioethics and Theological Ethics in the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies at Universit\u00e9 Laval (Quebec City), where he is Vice-Dean and the inaugural Chair of Educational Leadership in the Ethics of Life. Previously, Dr Labrecque was the Raymond Schinazi Scholar in Bioethics and Religious Thought as well as the Director of Graduate Studies in Bioethics at the Emory University Center for Ethics in Atlanta. Educated at McGill University, his training is multidisciplinary: he holds a BSc in Anatomy and Cell
Biology, a MA in Bioethics and Religious Studies, and a PhD in Religious Ethics. Dr Labrecque is Vice-President of the National Committee on Ethics and Ageing (Quebec) and is a corresponding member of the Pontifical Academy for Life.

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Mrs Carmie Forlini<\/h4>\n

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Carmie Forlini has a Bachelor of Commerce from Concordia University. She has 35+ years of corporate experience working in human resources and accounting and has owned her own bookkeeping business for the last 15 years. She has also been a certified life coach since 2014, helping her clients maximize their potential while navigating personal interpersonal conflicts. She has joined Living with Dignity because she is a firm believer that every life is precious – from conception to natural death. Every life deserves to be lived with dignity till the very end and Living with Dignity is determined to fight for this.

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Mrs Madeleine Varkay<\/h4>\n

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Madeleine Varkay holds a B.A. in Political Science and Economics from McGill University and an M.A. in Economic Policy Management from Columbia University.\nShe built an international career with the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, where she developed financing projects to mitigate climate risks in Asia, helping communities recover from the economic losses caused by natural disasters.\n\nUpon returning to Canada to care for her mother, she served as a caregiver for eight years. She consulted with social service organizations and worked closely with social workers and CLSC nurses.\nThroughout her mother\u2019s illness, she coordinated medical care and managed emergency support with various hospitals in Montreal, as well as with cardiologists and palliative care specialists.\n\nShe is now interested in sharing her experience and insights with the caregiver network that strives to ensure a dignified end of life for their loved ones.

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Advisor<\/b><\/h2>\n
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Dr. Patrick Vinay<\/h4>\n

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Dr. Patrick Vinay holds a B.A and an M.D. from the Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al. He also holds a certificate in nephrology and a PhD in clinical science (biochemistry). After two years of post-doctoral training at Oxford University under Professor Hans Krebs, winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine, he began a career in research at l’H\u00f4tel-Dieu de Montr\u00e9al.<\/p>\n

He then joined the Department of Physiology’s membrane research group, and became a Full Professor in the Department of Medicine while still continuing basic and clinical research within the nephrology service at Notre-Dame Hospital. He has been focusing his academic and clinical activities on palliative care since 2004.<\/p>\n

Throughout the course of his 40-year career, Dr. Vinay has published more than 200 articles and scientific papers, the majority of which deal with subjects relating to nephrology and kidney metabolism. A talented administrator, he was President of the Fonds de la recherche en sant\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec, Chief of the Department of Medicine at Notre-Dame Hospital and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at l’Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al for two terms.<\/p>\n

He is active in francophone circles through the Conseil Scientifique de l’Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie, and was also the President of the International Conference of Francophone Faculties of Medicine. He is a member of the Royal Society of Canada and a knight of l’Ordre des palmes acad\u00e9miques de France.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Coordinator<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Mr Jasmin Lemieux-Lefebvre<\/h4>\n

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With a bachelor’s degree in public communication, he completed his studies at Laval University in 1999 with internships at the Mus\u00e9e de la Civilisation (Qu\u00e9bec City) and at the Chambre de commerce d’\u00cele-de-France (Versailles). Jasmin began his career at the communication agency Qu\u00e9b\u00e9Comm, as project manager for multiple clients and communications manager for the Festival d’humour de Qu\u00e9bec (now known as ComediHa). He represented Canada in the Young International Leaders Program organized for the Japanese government, the “Ship for World Youth”, in 2002. After 7 years in Toronto (World Youth Day, Salt + Light Television), he returns to Qu\u00e9bec City as Director of Communications for the Archdiocese of Qu\u00e9bec. During this period, he became known in the media as a figure of dialogue. Jasmin has taken an interest in end-of-life issues by volunteering over the years to support the Rassemblement qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois contre l’euthanasie and the Physicians’ Alliance against euthanasia. The accompaniment of two of his grandparents at the end of their lives (involving a cancer for his maternal grandfather and Alzheimer’s disease for his paternal grandmother), remains a key moment that urges him to promote quality palliative care for all.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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\nBoard Members<\/p>\n

Mr Alex King
\nChair of the Board<\/p>\n

Alex King has an MBA from Edinburgh Business School and a graduate diploma in French from the Chartered …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":119,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"template_leftnav.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-697","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17551,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/697\/revisions\/17551"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}