Heidi Blumhuber

Date of Birth:                07-05-1961
Place of Birth:               Munich, Germany
Nationality:                   German
Country of Residence:  Italy

Care

1980 High school degree
1980 Pre-university stage, real estate company, Kaufman, Munich
1981 University coordinated stage of business administration at the publishing company “Bayerischer Schulbuchverlag”, Munich, (6 Months)
1983 University coordinated stage in marketing Stage, as assistant of the Product Manager at “Pfanni GmbH”, Munich, (6 Months)
1984 -1985 Assistant of the Director of the “Parasail GmbH”, Import and export company of sports gear.
1985 Master in Business Administration and Marketing, College of Munich, Germany
1985 - 1989 Managing Director of the “UP Europe Sarl”, production, import and export of ultra-light flying gear, Grenoble France
1985 - 1987 Coach of the French Hang gliding Team
1990 - 1994 External consultant of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Cancer Pain Relief, at the Division of Pain therapy and Palliative Care at the National Cancer Institute, Milan Italy
1990 - 2007 Executive Officer of the European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC), Milano, Italy


Congresses
1992 - 1993  Member of the organising committee of the workshop: “A European Programme on Education and Training for medical students and doctors in Palliative Care”. Brussels, Belgium 19-22 March 1993. Organised by the EAPC with the support of the programme “Europe against Cancer” of the CEE

Member of the organising committee and EAPC liaison officer of 5 EAPC Congresses.

Secretary of the Scientific Committee and member of the organising committee of 3 EAPC congresses and of 5 Forum on Research in Palliative Care of the EAPC

Other Roles
1994 - 2000  Member of the editorial board dell’ European Journal of Palliative Care
1996 - 2007  Secretary of the EAPC Research Network
1999 - 2007  Web-master of the Web site of the EAPC
2007             Member of the scientific group of the EAPC Taskforce to develop a new WHO guide to promote better palliative care and end of life care for older people

Publications
Author and e Co-author of 10 papers, one chapter and one booklet

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