Shane Sinclair

Dr. Shane Sinclair is a Full Professor and Director of the Compassion Research Lab at the University of Calgary, Faculty of Nursing. His research focuses on psychosocial and spiritual issues within oncology and palliative care, including his nationally funded program of research on compassion within his Compassion Research Lab. Dr. Sinclair is a former Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Postdoctoral Fellow (University of Manitoba), former President of the Canadian Association of Psychosocial Oncology, a recipient of the Canadian Association for Spiritual Care Award of Excellence in Research, a top 40 under 40 awardee, a recipient of the International Psychosocial Oncology Society New Investigator Award and the Institute of Cancer Research CIHR Early Investigator Award in Psychosocial Oncology.
In addition to being the founder and director of the Compassion Research Lab, he also developed the Sinclair Compassion Questionnaire (SCQ), the world’s most valid and reliable patient reported compassion, which when paired with the SCQ-i allows healthcare providers and organizations to personalize compassion to the preferences of each individual patient and family (www.compassionmeasure.com). In light of these contributions he was awarded the Canadian Association for Spiritual Care Lifetime Achievement Award and the CIHR Cancer Institute Award for Research Excellence from the Canadian Association for Psychosocial Oncology.