Dr. Bruno Gagnon is a physician specialized in palliative care and an associate professor at the Department of Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine at the Laval University School of Medicine, and a clinician at the palliative care unit at Hôtel-Dieu de Québec. Also, he is a researcher with the Réseau Québécois de recherche en Soins PALliatifs et de fin de vie (RQSPAL) and the Équipe de Recherche Michel-Sarrazin en Oncologie psychosociale et Soins palliatifs (ERMOS).
His researches focus on healthcare, delirium, and cognitive loss in patients with advanced cancer, classification of pain related to cancer, the role of methadone and other NMDA receptor antagonist in the treatment of neuropathic pain, end of life care, administrative data, anorexia-cachexia, and clinical trials in palliative care.
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Delirium prevention in terminal cancer: assessment of a multicomponent intervention
Journal ArticlePsychooncology, 21 (2), 2012.
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Assessing the role of hydration in delirium at the end of life
Journal ArticleCurr Opin Support Palliat Care, 5 (2), 2011.
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A multicentre open-label safety and efficacy study of tetrodotoxin for cancer pain
Journal ArticleCurr Oncol, 18 (3), 2011.
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Comparison between manual and semiautomated volumetric measurements of pituitary adenomas
Journal ArticleSkull Base, 21 (6), 2011.
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Metformin and the incidence of prostate cancer in patients with type 2 diabetes
Journal ArticleCancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev, 20 (2), 2011.
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Atypical migraine manifesting as mania
Journal ArticleJ Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci, 23 (2), 2011.
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[Using psychostimulants in end-of-life patients with hypoactive delirium and cognitive disorders: A literature review]
Journal ArticleCan J Psychiatry, 55 (6), 2010.
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A fluorescent probe of polyamine transport accumulates into intracellular acidic vesicles via a two-step mechanism
Journal ArticleJ Biol Chem, 279 (47), 2004.
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Active projects
- Age-related patterns in the experience of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy, from 2019-10-01 to 2024-09-30
- Institut universitaire de première ligne en santé et services sociaux., from 2014-04-01 to 2023-03-31
- Pan-Canadian Palliative Care Research Collaborative, from 2021-06-30 to 2026-03-31
- Volet québécois d’un registre national de soins palliatifs pour les patients atteints de la COVID-19, from 2020-10-01 to 2023-03-31
Recently finished projects
- Interdisciplinary team in Early Functional Optimization (InTEFO): introducing a new optimization clinic to improve accessibility and efficiency of quality palliative care in advanced cancer patients., from 2014-02-01 to 2022-01-31