12th World Research Congress of the EAPC

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To fit with the online format, most of our speakers will only present a short summary of work during the interactive online sessions with most of the session dedicated to discussion and debate. Full talks have been pre-recorded and are available on the congress platform.

All ePoster presentations are available to view in the congress platform. Some have an additional short video explaining the authors’ research. The three highest scoring posters in each category will receive a rosette.

The online congress offers lots of opportunities to ask questions and engage with our speakers and poster presenters. There are a number of ways of doing this:

Watch the recorded content, view posters and type your questions or comments into the comment box.
Use the live stream comment box during the live interactive sessions to type your questions for speakers.

Please note the times of all live sessions are Central European Summer Time (CEST)

Confirmed Plenary Speakers

Professor David Currow FAHMS is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Health and Sustainable Futures) at The University of Wollongong. He is the former Chief Cancer Officer, New South Wales and the Chief Executive Officer of the Cancer Institute, NSW, the state’s cancer control agency. He is a widely published academic with research in symptom control, population burden of symptoms and health services research. He held the chair of Supportive and Palliative Care at Flinders University and more recently of Palliative Medicine at the University of Technology Sydney. David co-founded the Australian National Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration and the principle investigator of the national Palliative Care Clinical Studies Collaborative.

Catherine Walshe is Professor of Palliative Care and Co-Director of the International Observatory on End of Life Care in the Division of Health Research, Lancaster University, UK. Her two main research interests are the way that palliative care is provided especially within primary and community care settings, and the experience of symptoms at the end of life. She is also interested in research methods and dissemination and is Editor-in-Chief of the journal 'Palliative Medicine'.

Holly G Prigerson, PhD, is the Irving Sherwood Wright Professor in the Department of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine where she co-directs the Cornell Center for Research on End-of-Life Care. Her research focuses on psychosocial influences on the quality of life and death of patients and their family caregivers.

Joachim Cohen is a social health scientist and a Professor of Public Health and Palliative Care at the End-of-Life Care Research Group of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. In the research group, he is chairing a research program on public health and palliative care. His research has been awarded the Kubler Ross Award for Young Researchers and the Young Investigator Award from the EAPC 2010. Both prizes were awarded to him, mainly because of his large-scale population-based and population-level cross-national research on end-of-life care. He has published over 190 articles in international peer-reviewed journals and co-edited the Oxford University Press book: “A public health perspective on end of life care”.

Prof Julia Downing is the Chief Executive of the International Children’s Palliative Care Network. She holds various academic positions including Honorary Professor at Makerere University, Visiting Professor Edge Hill University, Visiting Professor University of Belgrade, Visiting Senior Research Fellow Kings College London, Honorary Fellow, University of Edinburgh and previously Visiting Professor at the University of South Wales. She has over 200 publications and is regularly invited to present at international conferences and has been the scientific Chair for conferences in Africa, Latin America and Europe.  She is committed to developing and building capacity for research and education, and developing leaders in palliative care and nursing globally.

Eve Namisango is Programmes, Research and Development Manager at the African Palliative Care Association. She holds masters and PhD degrees in palliative care from Cicely Saunders Institute, King’s College London. She also practices child life support, grief and bereavement support in communities. This lecture is largely based on her research experience on interviewing children with HIV in Uganda and South Africa about their psychosocial needs and her PhD project research on outcome measurement in children with life limiting and life-threatening conditions which involved engaging children in research, using person-centred outcome measures and in result dissemination.

Words of welcome: Camilla Zimmermann and Augusto Caraceni

It is a pleasure to welcome you to the 12^thWorld Research Congress of the EAPC. The congress, which will be entirely online in May 2022, will offer excellent opportunities to interact with experts in palliative care, to present and discuss research, and to provide new ideas and new knowledge for improving the treatment and care of patients and their families. The Scientific Committee has been planning the scientific programme and we would like to thank the members of the multidisciplinary committee for their hard work and efforts: Kenneth Chambaere, Julia Downing, David Hui, Geana Kurita, Tonje Lundeby, Masanori Mori, Christoph Ostgathe.

12th World Research Congress of the EAPC

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Confirmed Plenary Speakers

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Words of welcome: Camilla Zimmermann and Augusto Caraceni

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