Dr. Amit Arya

I began providing palliative care in long-term care in 2016 — an experience that’s shaped my work ever since. Honoured to receive the 2025 Dr. S. Lawrence Librach Award, recognizing physician leadership in palliative care. Grateful to all who’ve shared this journey. 🙏🏽

My village in India helped me see Canada’s immigration debate in a new light. I wrote about what we miss when we reduce migration to numbers and job markets — and why it’s personal. @TorontoStar thestar.com/opinion/what-m…

Congratulations to @AmitAryaMD, palliative care physician at North York General (NYG) for being recognized with the Dr. S. Lawrence Librach Award for Palliative Medicine.

The 2025 recipient of the Dr. S. Lawrence Librach Award for Palliative Medicine in the Community is Dr. Amit Arya. Read more: hpco.ca/librach-award/ #HPCO2025 #hospicepalliativecare

Calling all Ontario #LTC providers leading palliative care-related QI initiatives! Join us Apr. 22 at 12 p.m. ET for the next LTC QI COP session focused on meaningful Advance Care Planning and Goals of Care conversations in LTC. #ACPDay Register today: buff.ly/rxpxJ8V

How can primary care teams support people living with dementia using a palliative approach to care? Join us on Apr. 23 at 12 p.m. ET for the next CBPPC COP session, “Palliative Care for Those Living With Dementia,” led by @AmitAryaMD, to learn more: buff.ly/TqhUJsl

We were delighted to present at Sienna Senior Living's National Clinical Leadership Conference today, with our session: Leading a Diverse Clinical Workforce.

During Joe Rogan’s podcast on January 9, Mel Gibson promoted drugs that are not scientifically proven cancer treatments. Misinformation on cancer treatment is dangerous, cruel, irresponsible and gives false hope to people with cancer and their loved ones. Researchers around the…

The world needs a more inclusive model of end-of-life care. The perspectives of formerly colonised countries can help to create more inclusive and culturally sensitive end-of-life care worldwide, say @ntizimira and colleagues #ChristmasBMJ bmj.com/content/387/bm…

Join us as we welcome @AmitAryaMD and Dr. @KStajduhar for a discussion on the importance of a #PalliativeApproach in #LTC, with a specific focus on supporting vulnerable and marginalized populations. December 12, 2024 at 11AM ET. Register: loom.ly/LweMdxU

🔍 Looking for practical steps for inclusive environments, cultural humility and more? 🌟 The PSW Fund now offers Creating a Culture of Belonging: From Awareness to Action: a 4-hour virtual workshop! 📢 For more info or to enroll, go to pswfundltc.ca #EDIinLTC

Almost every resident in LTC will require #palliativecare – but their needs are different than those in a hospital or hospice. How can homes in Ontario best support residents and families all the way through to the end of life? #LTCEngage2024 @OLTCAnews

The engagement on the development of the Safe Long-Term Care Act garnered wide-ranging and highly-informative perspectives from individuals and organizations. Learn more about the feedback in the What We Heard Report: ow.ly/fNHZ50T9QZI

Len could walk and talk when he waved goodbye to his family from the ambulance. He ended up bedridden, incoherent and died in hospital. The decline was so rapid over 33 hours in ER that his family compared it to “falling off a cliff.” thespec.com/news/hamilton-… via @thespec,thesp

We welcome @CMA_Docs updated draft policy based on its nationwide consultations that unequivocally supports publicly-funded health care. This further confirms what we know - charging patients for health care won't fix our system's problems. #cdnhealth policybase.cma.ca/viewer?file=%2…

Yet another nursing home in the Toronto area is shutting down, the @TorontoStar has learned, bringing the total number of closures over the past two-and-a-half years to four. How many more could close in the near future? thestar.com/business/anoth…

🦜🗣️ Improving access to specialist palliative care in long-term care is a phrase we find our selves repeating constantly. Join @AmitAryaMD and Zahra Ismail on just that and more this morning #CSPCP

ONA welcomes the arbitration decision released today that includes the most significant wage increase for registered nurses (RNs) and health-care professionals working in the province’s nursing homes in more than 30 years. Read our full release: ona.org/news-posts/202…