Palliative Care for Interstitial Lung Disease: Exploring Cannabis – Dr. Rebecca Colman

During this presentation, Dr. Rebecca Colman will be presenting on palliative care and symptom management in ILD with the role of cannabis to alleviate symptoms.

Dr. Rebecca Colman is a respirologist and palliative care physician at Sinai Health System and an Assistant Professor in the divisions of Respirology and Palliative Medicine at UofT. She trained in respirology and completed clinical fellowships in lung transplantation and palliative medicine all at UofT. She has an MSc in Quality Improvement and Patient Safety through the Institute for Health Policy Management and Evaluation, at UofT.

Her focus is on improving quality of life for patients with end-stage lung disease through work in the lung transplant program and in program development in palliative and supportive management for patients with non-malignant disease.