Adam Rapoport

Title: Medical Director, Paediatric Advanced Care Team (PACT)

Designations: MD, FRCPC, MH.Sc.

Phone: 416-813-6905

Email: adam.rapoport@sickkids.ca

Alternate Contact Name: Jenny Loor

Alternate Phone: 416-813-6905

Alternate Email: jenny.loor@sickkids.ca

U of T Positions: Associate Professor, Departments of Paediatrics and Family & Community Medicine

Other Positions: Medical Director, Emily’s House Children’s Hospice, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Research Positions

Project Investigator
Child Health Evaluative Sciences (CHES)

Biography

Adam Rapoport is a general paediatrician with a Masters in bioethics. In July 2011 he became the first Medical Director of the Paediatric Advanced Care Team (PACT), the palliative care service at SickKids. PACT provides both inpatient and outpatient palliative care to children with life-threatening illnesses, and their families, including grief and bereavement support. In 2013 Adam became Medical Director at Toronto’s first pediatric residential hospice – Emily’s House. Adam’s academic work focuses on the intersection of his 3 primary interests: paediatrics, palliative care and ethics.

Publications

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Funding

Canadian Institutes of Health Research
C17 Research Network
Pediatric Oncology Group of Ontario
Canadian Cancer Society Research Institute
Canadian Cancer Society
Garron Family Cancer Centre