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Report 11th Congress of the EAPC
Vienna, Austria, 7-10 May 2009
OPEN SOCIETY TRAVEL GRANTS
The International Palliative Care Initiative of the Open Society Institute provided travel grants to international delegates to support their participation in the 11th Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care. The EAPC would like to express their thanks.
Grantees:
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Kenya Hospices and Palliative Care Association (KEHPCA), Nairobi |
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social worker |
Kaunas nursing hospital/hospice, Kaunas |
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Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi
Did not attend due to Visa problems |
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Kaunas University of Medicine, Faculty of Nursing, Kaunas |
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nurse |
Divine providence low cost clinic (DIPROLOCC), Tiko
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Georgia |
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State Medical University, Tbilisi |
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nurse |
Nursing Palliative Care Department in Medical University of Wroclaw |
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| Marija Inesa Poniskaitiene |
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Kaunas Nursing Hospital/Hospice, Kaunas |
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physician |
Cancer Institute, Imam Khomaini and Mirza koochak-khan Hospital, Teheran |
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| Grantees fomr Lithuania with Prof. Lukas Radbruch, EAPC President |
Dr. Mamak Tahmasebi grantee form Iran with Dr. Mary Callaway |
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From left to right Dr. Ninashvili from Giorgia, Dr. Poniskaitiene, Ms. Demskyte & Dr. Bataitiene from Lithuania with Dr. Mary Callaway, OSI representative from USA
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IAHPC TRAVEL GRANTS
The International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care (IAHPC) is proud to collaborate with the EAPC by supporting eleven participants from developing countries to participate in the 11th Congress of the organization. The names of the grantees are available in http://www.hospicecare.com/news/09/04/chair.html
The mission of IAHPC is to collaborate and work to improve the quality of life of patients with advanced life-threatening conditions and their families, by advancing hospice and palliative care programs, education, research, and favourable policies around the world. We achieve this by facilitating and providing palliative care education and training opportunities for care providers, such as those offered during the EAPC Congress.
To read the reports from IAHPC Traveling Scholars: Lebanon, Egypt, Russia, and Albania click here
Grantees
- Olatunji Alese - Clinical Fellow University College Hospital , Ibadan , Nigeria .
- Samy A. Alsirafy - Lecturer, Kasr Al-Aini School of Medicine, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt.
- Mariela Bertolino - Palliative Care Unit Coordinator, Hospital Tornu-Fundacion FEMEBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Julia Downing - Executive Director, African Palliative Care Association, Uganda , Africa
- Om Khantey - chief department Institution Douleurs Sans Frontieres, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
- Irene Laska - Homecare Manager in Palliative Care Centre, Korce, Albania.
- Hebah Osman - Assistant professor of Public Health and Family Medicine, American University of Beirut, Lebanon .
- Ahmad Fawad Pirzad - Director of EDC Kabul Medical University , Kabul , Afghanistan .
- Rene Rodriguez - Coordinador Pain and Palliaitive Care Clinic, Universidad Libre, Cali, Colombia.
- Tamari Rukhadze - Palliative Care Service Coordinator National Cancer Centre, Palliative Care Association "Humanists' Union", Tbilisi, Georgia.
- Laimute Rozukiene - Head Nurse, Kaunas Nursing Hospital/Hospice Lithuania .
- Elena Vvedenskaya - head of palliative care in HIV/AIDS regional program, Nizhny, Novgorod , Russia .
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