Dr. Larry Librach's involvement in Palliative Care began in 1978. Dr. Librach served as the Director of the Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative Care at Mount Sinai Hospital for 22 years until July 2011. Dr. Librach is a full professor 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 and an Academic Educator in the Centre for Faculty Development at the University of Toronto. Dr. Librach was appointed as the Sun Life Financial Chair in Bioethics and as the Director of the Joint Centre for Bioethics at the University of Toronto for a five year term in July 2011. 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. He has delivered over 500 lectures and workshops. His clinical practice is in cancer pain.