Dr. Margaret Dingle Spence will deliver the feature presentation at the Palliative Care Society's third annual conference, on October 20 at the Hilton Hotel and Conference Centre, Port-of-Spain.
Dr Spence is the senior medical officer and consultant oncologist at the Hope Institute, a cancer hospital in Jamaica.
The theme of this year's conference is "Palliative Care: More than just Cancer Care."
The conference will be held with the collaboration of the Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative Care at Mt Sinai Hospital, Toronto; The Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto; and the University of The West Indies.
The Conference is open to medical practitioners, health care providers, other caregivers and anyone who wants to learn about palliative care.