He worked in a general family practice and trained in epidemiology and biostatistics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine before becoming the assistant executive director of the Manitoba Health Services Commission from 1972 to 1974.
Noralou and Les Roos turning the commission's routinely collected administrative information into data for innovative health-services research.
[2] Hospital-based palliative care is a Canadian innovation developed independently in Winnipeg and Montreal.
[6][7][8] He modeled a flexible, interdisciplinary team approach to palliative care, which recognized nurses, social workers, psychologists, pharmacists and spiritual care-givers as valuable colleagues.
[12] Dr. Henteleff was the founding president of the Canadian Palliative Care Association, which honoured him with an Award of Excellence in 2013.