S. Lawrence Librach, MD, CCFP, FCFP
Director
Telephone: (416) 978-4756
Email: larry.librach@utoronto.ca 
Executive Assistant: Rhonda Martin
Telephone: (416) 978-1906
Email: jcb.ea@utoronto.ca
Dr. Librach is the Sun Life Financial Chair in Bioethics and Director of the Joint Centre for Bioethics at the University of Toronto. Previously he was the Director of The Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative Care at Mount Sinai Hospital.
Dr. Librach is a full professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. He is the Head of the Division of Palliative Care in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto. Dr. Librach is also an associate in the Centre for Studies in Pain at the University of Toronto and the Buehler Centre for Aging at Northwestern University in Chicago. He is an academic educator with the Centre for Professional Development at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. Dr. Librach served as the W. Gifford-Jones Professor in Pain Control and Palliative Care at the University of Toronto from 2000-11. He was the physician leader of the national Educating Future Physicians for Palliative and End of Life Care Project (EFPPEC) that introduced curriculum in palliative and end of life care to Canada’s 17 medical schools. He was an education consultant to the Education in Palliative & End of Life Care (EPEC) project in the USA for 5 years. He is a member of the Board and Past President of the Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association. Dr. Librach serves as the Chair of the Toronto Central Palliative Care Network. He is also on the board of the Room 217 Foundation which promotes music therapy.
Dr. Librach is the recipient of a number of awards from a number of organizations including the Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association, the Ontario Palliative Care Association, the Ontario Medical Association, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, and the University of Toronto.
Dr. Librach’s academic interests are wide-ranging but the development and implementation of education programs, quality of care, advance care planning, quality improvement and patient safety are areas of special interest. He has delivered over 500 lectures and workshops.
Dr. Librach has published extensively and is the author of the Pain Manual (over 150,000 copies distributed) and co-edited a textbook, Palliative Care: Core Skills and Clinical Competencies, which is into its second edition.
