Friday, May 31st

7:00        Registration
Palace Royal Hotel

10:00     Various guided tours
Old Québec

15:00     Business Meeting CFCPS
Palace Royal Hotel

16:30     Adoration
Chapel, Sisters of Charity of Québec
Maison Mère-Mallet

18:00     Cocktail
Palace Royal Hotel

19:00     Meal as per participant’s choice

Saturday, June 1st

7:30        Mass
Chapel, Sisters of Charity of Québec
Maison Mère-Mallet

8:15        Breakfast
Palace Royal Hotel

8:55        Congress Opening
François Primeau, M.D., B. Ph., FRCPC
President, Scientific Committee

Plenary Session

9:00        Dignity as the central ethical concept in Health Care
Thomas DeKoninck, Ph. D.
Professor, Philosophy in the Contemporary World
Université Laval, Québec City

9:45        At the root of ethical decision-making: rational and faith-based dimensions of personhood
Thérèse Nadeau-Lacour, Ph. D.
Professor, Theology and Religious Sciences, Université Laval, UQTR, Trois-Rivières

10:30     Break

11:00     End of life care: humanistic approach
Joseph Ayoub, M.D., FRCPC
Palliative Care, CHUM, Montreal.

11:45     Ethical considerations on In Vitro Fertilization
Jacques Suaudeau, M.D., LPh, MHist, DTh
Speaker on Ethical Issues, France and Italy
Official, Pontifical Academy for Life, Rome

12:30     Lunch as per participant’s choice

1st Workshop

14:30     1 Regards sur l’euthanasie
Bertrand Blanchet, Ph. D.
Expert on Bioethical Issues, AECQ

2 Euthanasia and appropriate care at the end of life
Joseph Ayoub, M.D.; Pierre Gagnon, M.D.; Michel R. Morissette, M.D.
Physician, Palliative Care and AIDS

3 Témoignage sur une fraternité médicale
Béatrix Paillot, M.D.
Geriatrician, Paris

15:30     Break

2nd Workshop

16:00     4 Spiritualité et institution de soins
Guy Jobin, Ph. D.
Professor, Religion, Spirituality & Health Care, Université Laval, Québec City

5 In Vitro Fertilization : Interactive discussion
Jacques Suaudeau, M.D., LPh, MHist, DTh

6 Euthanasie et soins appropriés en fin de vie
Patrick Vinay, M.D., Ph. D., FRCPC
Head, Palliative Care, CHUM, UdeM, Montréal

7 Et si la vie était une question : prise en compte de la souffrance du soignant
Jacques Quintin, Ph. D.
Ethics Development Office,
Faculty of Medicine, Université de Sherbrooke

Evening

18:00     Cocktail & Banquet

20:30     Dr David McCann Award
The Challenges of the New Evangelization in Health Care
Gérald C. Lacroix, B. Th., M. Th.
Archbishop of Quebec

Sunday, June 2nd

9:30        Mass
Cathedral Basilica Notre-Dame-de-Québec