Category Archives: conferences

2015 in the Palliverse – conferences

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As we adjust to the New Year (hello 2016), Palliverse is looking back at some of our posts over the past year. Being palliative care nerds, Team Palliverse have been lucky to attend numerous Australian, New Zealand and international conferences over the past year. Click the links below to attend vicariously or relive some of them:

 

Stay tuned in 2016 for more conference updates – Team Palliverse are already begging for leave and furiously submitting abstracts. And if you are attending a conference that would be of interest to Palliverse readers, and would like to share a summary, please contact us!

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European association for palliative care early researcher award

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Know a hot young palliative care researcher? Or perhaps you ARE a hot young palliative care researcher?

You might be interested to investigate this award for early palliative care researchers. There are other awards for post docs and for clinical research

http://www.eapcnet.eu/research2016/

You will have to get your proverbial skates on as applications close 13th December. The EAPC research congress is in Dublin in June 2016.

 

 

 

Palliverse takes over @WePublicHealth – for one week only!

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FullSizeRenderThis week, Palliverse will be hosting the @WePublicHealth rocur (“rotating curation”) Twitter account. You can read more about @WePublicHealth, “an experiment in citizen journalism meets public health”, over at Croakey blog.

This week, Palliverse will discuss a number of public health palliative care topics such as equitable access to palliative care in Australia/New Zealand and globally, access to essential pain medicines, Compassionate Communities, advance care planning, and more. Continue reading →

3rd Australian Palliative Care Research Colloquium

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Prof Patsy Yates sharing her reflections on setting up a NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in end-of-life care at the PCRNV Breakfast Forum

Prof Patsy Yates sharing her reflections on setting up a NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in End of Life Care at the PCRNV Breakfast Forum

For the third year in a row, the Australian Palliative Care Research Colloquium was held at the Rendezvous Grand Hotel in Melbourne on October 22-23. The meeting was once again preceded by a breakfast forum hosted by Palliative Care Research Network Victoria (PCRNV), which served as a tempting entrée to the two-day main course of fantastic presentations and workshops exploring a diverse range of topics pertaining to palliative care research. Conversations about research continued over tea and meal breaks, next to quality poster presentations, and during the convivial conference dinner on the banks of the Yarra.  Continue reading →

Social media activity during the 13th Australian Palliative Care Conference

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13APCC conference analytics

With a theme of ‘Fit for the Future’, the 13th Australian Palliative Care Conference utilised a coordinated and multifaceted social media strategy to enhance the delegates’ experience and reach new audiences globally. This was achieved through the concerted efforts of team Palliverse (@Palliverse) and other key individuals, including Christian Sinclair (@ctsinclair).  Continue reading →

Renal supportive care weekend

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St George model

[Prof Mark Brown discussing the renal supportive care model at St George Hospital]

21-23rd August, 2015 | St George Hospital, Sydney

It was the fifth annual symposium but the first master class. A truly multi-disciplinary audience comprising nephrology, palliative care, geriatrics, trainees, specialists, nurses, social workers, dieticians, et al met on a warm and wet weekend at the St George Hospital in Sydney. All shared a commitment to making life better for individuals with advanced kidney disease. Continue reading →

‪#‎ACPEL2015‬ Day 2 Highlights: from Elissa

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Greetings from Munich (Grusse aus Munchen)

The morning session was an opportunity to share advance care planning (ACP) success stories from different countries – Singapore (Living Matters), UK (Gold Standard Framework) and the US (Honoring Choices Wisconsin, Kaiser Permanente). Helen Mason from NZ also presented the findings of her Harkness Fellowship, identifying key components of health systems for successful ACP.

To me, the recurring themes were:
– the need for grassroots, community engagement
– identifying and using clinical and community champions of ACP
– the need for a coordinated whole systems approach
– not limiting ACP to end of life – focus on living well, not just dying, and
– employing continuous quality improvement.

Continue reading →

Call for abstracts: 14th National Conference of Emerging Researchers in Ageing

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‘Bringing research to life’: 7-8 December 2015, National Ageing Research Institute, Melbourne.

The National Ageing Research Institute is pleased to host the 14th National Emerging Researchers in Ageing Conference in 2015. This is the only national conference in Australia focusing exclusively on the work of higher degree research students undertaking research in ageing across a range of disciplines. The conference presents a unique opportunity for higher degree research students to come together to share their research.

The conference organisers invite the submission of abstracts for oral and poster presentations from PhD, Masters and Professional Doctoral students and other emerging researchers engaged in ageing related research from any discipline.

The call for abstracts is now open and will close on 31 August. A copy of the submission guidelines and abstract template are available on the conference website.

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2ANZSPM Aotearoa Conference 2015

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Last Saturday morning I had an early start, making my way to the airport in order to fly down to Wellington for the annual ANZSPM (Australia New Zealand Society of Palliative Medicine) Aotearoa (Kiwi branch) conference. A great chance for NZ Palliative Care doctors to catch up with each other, share hugs and teach each other new things. Continue reading →

ASCO 15 – Early palliative care in an inpatient oncology setting improved outcomes and satisfaction

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Sadly, I am not actually AT ASCO, the annual meeting of the American Society for Clinical Oncology which is taking place in Chicago this year.

However thanks to the modern day marvels of social media I was able to watch this lecture  by Dr Riedel and a team at Duke University Medical Centre.

Dr Riedel introduced  a model where palliative physicians ( “palliatricians”. What do you think? I love a neologism, myself….) co-rounded with the oncologists in the inpatient oncology unit.

Statistically significant reductions in length of stay (LOS), 7 and 30 day readmissions, and ICU admissions were demonstrated. Nurse and doctor satisfaction was increased. Nurses felt the quality of care was improved.

All the medical oncologists surveyed felt that the palliatricians added to the care of the patient and that they learned some stuff about symptom management. I know I learn heaps when I round with medical oncologists! Communication and collaboration was improved.

It was a shame they didn’t look at patient satisfaction, but hopefully that might happen in future.

Seen anything interesting coming out of ASCO this year?

Sonia