Alan Taniguchi

Class of 2020

Alan Taniguchi is a physician in Southern Ontario, with a background in family medicine, care of the elderly, and palliative care. He is a strong advocate for public health and social justice models of palliative care and believes the way forward in providing quality end-of-life care is through community engagement. Alan is an award-winning medical educator, passionate about helping health care providers embrace effective, compassionate approaches to palliative and end-of-life care. He leads The 100% Certainty Project, a community reading initiative inspiring dialogue about death, dying, loss, and bereavement. He loves Hogwarts, chocolate, and shavasana (but not necessarily in that order). www.talkaboutdeath.ca.

Clippings

  • 2020
  • Healthing

Drug demand is another curve to be flattened

  • 2020
  • Healthy Debate

COVID-19 visitor restrictions are isolating seniors

  • 2020
  • Canadian Press
  • National Post

Medical students running errands for health-care workers and their families

  • 2020
  • Healthing
  • PostMedia

Hashing out how to get weed into hospitals

  • 2020
  • Healthy Debate

What should you know about your electronic Ontario health record

  • 2020
  • Healthy Debate

The time has come…health care makes the push to go digital

  • 2020
  • Dallas News

When you’re grieving on Christmas, it’s OK to cry