Dr. Danielle Kain
Dr. Danielle Kain is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Palliative Medicine, Department of Medicine (DOM) at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. She is Co-Chair (Interim) of the Division of Palliative Medicine, and Clinical Director of Palliative Care at Providence Care Hospital. She is currently the President of the Medical Staff Association at Kingston Health Sciences Centre.
Dr. Kain completed her medical school in 2009 at the University of Toronto, followed by Family Medicine and Palliative Medicine residency training at Dalhousie University in Halifax. She spent two years at Dalhousie in the Division of Palliative Medicine before coming back to Toronto (University Health Network) in 2015. Kingston is her home, and she was grateful for the opportunity to return to Queen's in 2018.
Dr. Kain has led Palliative Care program development expansion at Queen's, integrating palliative care into several malignant and non-malignant outpatient clinics including ALS, advanced COPD/ILD, and a rapid lung cancer diagnostic clinic (LDAP).
Dr. Kain is especially interested in undergraduate medical education curriculum design and delivery. She has successfully integrated Goals of Care and Serious Illness Conversation teaching into undergraduate, post-graduate, and continuing medical education curriculum at Queen's. She has also won several awards for her excellence as a teacher and clinician - Dr. Kain is the 2024 recipient of the D. Laurence Wilson Award in Professionalism at the Queen's School of Medicine, "provided annually to a faculty physician who best exemplifies the attributes of the profession that graduating class members in the Queen's School of Medicine aspire to emulate.” She also won the Department of Medicine Resident Teaching Award for excellence in teaching in both 2021 and 2024, and the Department of Medicine Young Clinician Award in 2021, "awarded to a faculty member at the rank of Assistant Professor in the DOM deemed by their colleagues to demonstrate outstanding clinical acumen and who provides exemplary patient care."
