11th Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care, Vienna, 7th-10th May 2009
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Scholarships and Awards Acknowledgements

 

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.

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 .

 

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. The information about the grantees and their reports will be published on the EAPC website.

 

EAPC YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD

For the first time in 2009, the EAPC are pleased to present three prizes for a young (novice) scientist in the field of palliative care who has recently, or is currently, making an outstanding contribution to research and/or academic teaching. This award is designed to recognise the work of this person and to highlight their personal career development and their potential for the future. There was a call for nominations and applications in the autumn of 2008, with 18 people applying from 10 countries. An award panel of EAPC Board members: Professor Sheila Payne , Dr Per Sjogren and Dr Maria Nabal had the difficult task of making a recommendation for three awards using strict criteria of excellence and outstanding work:

First place: Jenny van der Steen - The Netherlands
Second place: Catherine Walshe - United Kingdom
Third place: Martin Fegg - Germany

 

VIENNA CONGRESS BEST POSTER AWARDS

There will be three prizes available each day for the best posters. The winners will be announced in the Closing Ceremony on Sunday, May 10th 2009 11:15 - 12:00.

  • One copy of the Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine and the Oxford Handbook of Palliative Care. We would like to thank the Oxford University press for their support.
  • One copy of Palliative Medicine - by T. Declan Walsh (USA) published by Elsevier
  • One free personal online registration to Palliative Medicine, the EAPC research Journal for one year. We would like to thank Sage Publishers for their support.

In addition there will be three poster awards for the best posters from resource poor (developing) countries

  • Free personal online registration to the EJPC, the EAPC Journal for one year. We would like to thank Hayward Medical for their support.

EUROPEAN STANDARDS AND NORMS FOR PALLIATIVE CARE

Participant award for online Delphi consensus process

On behalf of the board of directors of the EAPC currently a consensus process on standards and norms for palliative care is being undertaken. The aim is to achieve a Europe-wide consensus on five key areas of palliative care delivery by an online Delphi survey. The process comprises two rounds; the first round has been accomplished in November, 2008, the second round started in April, 2009. The results of the consensus process will be published as EAPC White Paper on standards and norms for palliative care in Europe .

Among all participants of our online consensus process a special award for their participation has been drawn. We are pleased to announce that the winner will gain a free copy of the two top-class standard works in palliative care, the Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine and the Oxford Handbook of Palliative Care .

More detailed information on the methods and the first results of the consensus process will be presented at the scientific poster exhibition during this conference.