Inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame in 2017, Balfour Mount is Emeritus Professor of Medicine at McGill University and the founder of McGill's biennial International Congresses on Care of the Terminally Ill. An Officer of the Order of Canada, an Officer of the Order of Quebec and recipient of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine "Lifetime Achievement Award." Mount has also received The Herman Feifel Award for Exceptional Achievement in Thanatology from the International Work Group on Death, Dying and Bereavement.