Dr. Zhimeng Jia joined the Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative Care in Toronto as a clinician-investigator in September of 2021. Prior to joining the Toronto Palliative Care community, Dr. Jia completed his Family Medicine residency and Palliative Care clinical fellowship at the University of Alberta, and a research fellowship at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Through a combination of personal and clinical experiences, Dr. Jia developed an interest in health inequities that Asian immigrants experience at the end-of-life. He refined these academic interests into a formal research program during his research fellowship in Boston. Now, he leads several institutionally, nationally, and internationally funded initiatives to understand the model of palliative care delivery among Asian Canadians, linguistic and paralinguistic elements of intercultural palliative care communication, and culturally-tailored palliative care training in Asia.