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About the Centre
The Gerry and Nancy Pencer Brain Tumor Centre is dedicated to improving the lives of people living with brain tumours. This unique and innovative Centre combines the expertise of medical specialists and support staff from various departments to provide many different kinds of care, all in one location. The Centre offers complete ambulatory care, a full range of psychosocial services, educational activities, and patient and family support programs.
Beautifully designed with patients’ comfort in mind, the Centre provides a hopeful, healing environment where patients and their families feel welcome at every visit. Most importantly, it offers patients a reason to feel hopeful, as it conducts pioneering research into brain tumours.
Ongoing initiatives include drug trials and supportive care programs that provide information, and increase knowledge about the emotional impact of brain tumours, and their treatment, on patients and their families.
Another important aspect of the Centre’s research activities is sponsoring the Gerry Pencer Neuro-oncology Fellowship Program, which educates medical professionals about state-of-the-art management of brain cancer.
The Gerry & Nancy Pencer Brain Trust
The Gerry & Nancy Pencer Brain Trust is a non-profit organization founded by Gerry Pencer with a mandate to improve the quality of life of people who live with brain tumours. This registered charity is a major ongoing funding source of The Gerry & Nancy Pencer Brain Tumor Center at Princess Margaret Hospital (PMH) in Toronto. Before his death, Gerry Pencer pledged $4 million to finance The Centre which is revolutionizing the way patients are diagnosed, educated, informed, treated, and supported throughout their illness. To accomplish this, The Centre combines the expertise of the departments of Medicine, Surgery, Radiation Oncology, Psychiatry, Social Work, Nursing, Pathology, Palliative Care, Research, and Rehabilitation.
The Board of Advisors of the Gerry & Nancy Pencer Brain Trust includes:
- Lawrence Bloomberg, CFA, Co-Chairman and Co-CEO, National Bank Financial Ltd.
- Richard Cole, President, R.J. Cole Financial Consulting Limited
- David Cynamon, Chairman & CEO, KIK Corporation
- Dianne Lister, LL.B., CFRE, Principal, The Dianne Lister Group
- Dr. Christopher Paige, PH.D, Vice President Research, The University Health Network
- Holly Pencer Bellman, Executive Director, The Gerry & Nancy Pencer Brain Trust
- Nancy Pencer, President, The Gerry & Nancy Pencer Brain Trust
- Dr. Daniel Silver, M.D., FRCP © Consultant to the Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai Hospital
- Larry Tanenbaum, President, Kilmer Van Nostrand Co. Limited
