Alyssa Boyd graduated from McMaster medical school in 2003 and traveled North to Thunder Bay to complete a two year residency program in rural family medicine with a special focus in palliative care.  She returned to Southern Ontario in 2006 for a brief 3-month locum in Collingwood in the hopes of traveling...

Being in love with people, who they are, and what makes them a person, Nancy Good-Kennedy R.N., R.Ac , Co-founder of The Living Wish Foundation, joined the field of nursing more than 20years ago. She knows firsthand, that when human-beings are diagnosed with a life-limiting illness it is not uncommon... 

Ingrid McLeod-Dick is a Chartered Professional Accountant and holds a BSc. from Queens University and an MBA from Schulich School of Business. Ingrid worked 16 years in public practice and also taught at the Schulich School of Business for the past 25 years in its MBA and EMBA program in the areas of finance and accounting... 

Karen Ladner Haas has a  diverse background in both health care and corporate settings including career and leadership coaching, financial planning, education, and ongoing volunteer leadership roles within healthcare. She has a BA from the University of Calgary and a certificate in family engagement in research from McMaster...

Tanya Mazza’s career history includes more than twenty-five years dedicated to the arts in both public and not-for-profit settings. As a member of the marketing & development staff at Canada’s National Ballet School, Tanya gained extensive fundraising experience that included special events, major gifts, ...

Dr. Karin Euler has been a family physician for 27 years and has an interest in providing the best palliative care possible. Karin believes that you should be allowed to live as fully as possible until the moment that you die. In their last days, people are confined... 

Dr. Michael Lewin has been a family physician for 27 years. After his studies at the University of Toronto, and residency at Queen’s, he worked in Maine, Bolivia, Ecuador and the Marshall Islands before starting a family and deciding to move closer to home, serving the Collingwood community for the last 17 years...

Carrie Plater grew up in Wasaga Beach and she has always felt giving back to her small town community in different ways was an important aspect of what living here is all about.

Carrie graduated from Georgian College's Advertising program, and she has had a successful career in...

Heather Brown, BASc, DKATI, RP (qualifying)  is a professional Art Therapist and a Registered Psychotherapist (qualifying) who has been working alongside individuals with a palliative diagnosis and their families for the last 7 years. Heather feels privileged to work alongside her clients as they share the undying...