Mahoganie Hines 
MHSc (Bioethics), BScN (Hons.), RN, CHPCN(c)
Past President 

 

Mahoganie has volunteered her time in various capacities acting as the previous Registered Nurses Association of Ontario’s (RNAO) Policy and Political Action ENO for the Palliative Care Nurse’s Interest Group for several years and as well as the immediate past President. She has sat on the inaugural executive board of the Canadian Palliative Care Nursing Association (CPCNA) as the Secretary/Treasurer, President- elect, President and currently is the immediate Past-President. She is a previous Past Chair for the Palliative Care Consultants Network of Ontario. Currently, she works as a Clinical Nurse Specialist on the Palliative Care Unit of St. Peter’s Hospital in Hamilton and has worked as an educator for Hospice Palliative Care Ontario, Georgian College & Brock University and has her Masters of Health Science in Bioethics.

She sat on the expert panel of the RNAO’s Best Practice Guideline: End of Life in the last 12 months: Adults with life-limiting and progressive illness (2020) and for the fourth iteration of the Assessment and Pain Management BPG (2025). Advocacy is a cornerstone of her practice. She has spoken at Queen’s Park about the need for equity and accessibility for all to receive excellent Palliative Care through the development of the Compassionate Care Act, which in December 2020 reached royal assent and became law. Finally, she has been honoured with numerous awards for her practice, including receiving the Larry Librach Prize in Ethics and End of Life Care (2023) and was honoured as 2023’s recipient of the Brock University Distinguished Alumni for the faculty of Applied Health Sciences, as well as Niagara’s 40 under 40 (2020), Nursing Now Ontario award for the RN category (2021), RNAO Leadership award in Political Action 2021 and Dorothy Monteith Scholarship (2022). When she is not working, she also intermittently volunteers her time as a roller derby referee for the Niagara Roller Derby League.