Dr. Gagnon, MD, FRCPC, is a psychiatrist specializing in psycho-oncology, psychosomatic medicine, and geriatric psychiatry. He is a clinical researcher at the Centre for Cancer Research, and is director of the Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at the Faculty of Medicine.at Laval University. In addition to being a clinician at the CHU of Quebec – Laval University, CIUSSS-CN and Maison Michel-Sarrazin, he began his research career in 1994 after a two-year fellowship at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. He received a research fellowship from the National Cancer Institute of Canada (NCIC) and received the NCIC’s Dorothy J. Lamont Award for his significant contribution to oncology / palliative care research in delirium. He has been the lead investigator of major operating grants for the Canadian Cancer Society, and of a grant for a new emerging palliative care team from the Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR), while he was a professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy. Since 2000, Dr. Gagnon has led the Michel-Sarrazin research team in psychosocial oncology and palliative care at Laval University, and has been the director of the Quebec Research Network in Palliative and End-of-Life Care at FRQS since its creation in 2017.

His research interests include delirium associated with cancer, psychotherapy, especially existential, palliative care, psychiatric complications of cancer, as well as the use of psychotropic drugs in palliative care and oncology. He is active in teaching the different aspects of psycho-oncology and palliative care.

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Gilbert E, Savard J, Gagnon P, Savard MH, Ivers H, Foldes-Busque G

To be or not to be positive: Development of a tool to assess the relationship of negative, positive, and realistic thinking with psychological distress in breast cancer

Journal Article

J Health Psychol, 23 (5), 2018.

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Gonthier C, Pelletier S, Gagnon P, Marin A, Chiquette J, Gagnon B, Roy L, Cleophat JE, Joly Y, Dorval M

Issues related to family history of cancer at the end of life: a palliative care providers' survey

Journal Article

Fam Cancer, 17 (2), 2018.

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Fillion L, Truchon M, L'Heureux M, Langlois L, Desbiens JF, Gélinas C, Vachon M, Tapp D, Aubin M, Simard S, Tremblay L, Gagnon P, Dumont S, Roch G, Bradet R, Lavoie S, Robitaille MA, Veillette AM

Vers l’amélioration des services et des soins palliatifs de fin de vie : adapter et implanter des programmes de soutien en milieu de travail et évaluer leur effet sur la satisfaction, le sens au travail et le bien-être des infirmières (SATIN II)

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IRSST, Montréal, QC, 2017, ISBN: 9782896319107.

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Aubin M, Vézina L, Verreault R, Simard S, Desbiens JF, Tremblay L, Dumont S, Fillion L, Dogba MJ, Gagnon P

Effectiveness of an intervention to improve supportive care for family caregivers of patients with lung cancer: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Journal Article

Trials, 18 (1), 2017.

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Fillion L, Vachon M, Gagnon P

Enhancing Meaning at Work and Preventing Burnout: The Meaning-Centered Intervention for Palliative Care Clinicians

Book Chapter

Breitbart WS (Ed.): Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy in the Cancer Setting. Finding Meaning and Hope in the Face of Suffering, pp. 168-181, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 2016, ISBN: 9780199837229.

Gagnon P

Aspects psychiatriques des soins palliatifs

Book Chapter

Lalonde P, Pinard GF (Ed.): Psychiatrie clinique : approche bio-psycho-sociale, pp. 1033-1047, Montréal, QC, Chenelière Éducation, 2016, ISBN: 9782765047704.

Wilson KG, Dalgleish TL, Chochinov HM, Chary S, Gagnon PR, Macmillan K, De Luca M, O'Shea F, Kuhl D, Fainsinger RL

Mental disorders and the desire for death in patients receiving palliative care for cancer

Journal Article

BMJ Support Palliat Care, 6 (2), 2016.

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Blais MC, Gagnon P, Ivers H, Boivert JM

L’activation comportementale pour améliorer l’humeur chez les survivants du cancer : Étude de cas uniques

Journal Article

20 (3), 2015.

Bernatchez MS, Collin J, Gagnon P, Hamel P, Hervouet S, Leis A, Savard J

La gestion des symptômes en soins palliatifs au-delà de la médication

Journal Article

Cahiers francophones de soins palliatifs, 15 (2), 2015.

Gagnon P, Fillion L, Robitaille MA, Girard M, Tardif F, Cochrane JP, Le Moignan Moreau J, Breitbart W

A cognitive-existential intervention to improve existential and global quality of life in cancer patients: A pilot study

Journal Article

Palliat Support Care, 13 (4), 2015.

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