2021; Volume 22, No 9, September
Membership by Degree
By Genevieve Napier
IAHPC Senior Operations Officer
For the past several months, we have been building a picture of our membership: by age, occupation, region, and country. This month, we bring you a breakdown of members’ academic credentials.
This breakdown analyzes our individual membership, which accounts for 89% of our members. It excludes our institutional members, which account for 11%. Percentages are based on membership as of August 31, 2021.
Members’ Impact
Rachel Coghlan was published twice in August. She is lead author of an editorial, “Inequities of Palliative Care Availability and Access to Opioids in Low- and Middle-Income Countries,” published in Palliative Medicine; and “
The editorial cites studies and statistics that reveal inequities in palliative care between high-income countries and low- or middle-income countries, and the importance of reducing these inequities, particularly given future needs. In the Lancet submission, she describes palliative care as “an essential part of pandemic and humanitarian response,” and humanitarian workers as worthy of being celebrated for helping to “sustain communities through this pandemic and keep spirits alive.”
A case report by lead author Chamath Fernando was published in the Indian Palliative Care Journal in August. “A Typical Perplexing Life-Sustaining Therapy Decision at the End of Life: A case report from Sri Lanka with attributes potentially worth adopting from the UK legislature follows a young man’s journey from a diagnosis of metastatic osteosarcoma to his death. He explicitly, verbally expressed the wish for care that did not involve life-sustaining measures, but was resuscitated regardless. The report suggests that adopting advance-care planning methods used in the UK would benefit both patients and clinicians.
Gary Rodin, MD, teamed up with Sarah Hales, MD, to write Managing Cancer and Living Meaningfully: An Evidence-Based Intervention for Cancer Patients and Caregivers, published by Oxford University Press in April. The book provides “the empirical research, theoretical underpinnings, and clinical application” of CALM, described as a novel supportive-expressive psychotherapy for those living with cancer. The practice of CALM is currently in use in 15 countries, according to Dr. Rodin, who is the Joint University of Toronto/University Health Network Chair in Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, and Head of the Department of Supportive Care at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto, Canada.
Dr. Nahla Gafer, author of this month’s featured story, published an article titled “Prevalence of Life-Limiting and Life-Threatening Illness and Associated Palliative Care Needs Among Hospital Inpatients in Sudan” in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. The article describes results of a study that investigated the need for palliative care among adult inpatients at five hospitals in Sudan.
Dr. Nahla Gafer is a member of the IAHPC Board of Directors. You can read her bio in the IAHPC website.
If you have a recently published article or other notable achievement that you wish to share with your IAHPC colleagues, please contact Genevieve Napier.
Members in This Month’s Newsletter
The IAHPC leadership would like to thank the many members who participated in stories and columns in this month’s newsletter.
Policy & Advocacy
- Helena Davies (United Kingdom), member since 2020, participated in the COVID-19 Briefing Notes.
- Rumana Dowla (Dhaka, Bangladesh), member since 2009, supported the Global Consensus-Based Palliative Care Definition and serves as an Advocacy Focal Point.
- Zipporah Ali (Kenya), member since 2009, supported the Global Consensus-Based Palliative Care Definition, participated in the COVID-19 Briefing Notes, and serves as an Advocacy Focal Point.
- Sofia Bunge (Argentina), member since 2009, and serves as an Advocacy Focal Point.
- Nicolas Dawidowicz (Argentina) has been a member since 2012.
News from our Partners
- Stephen Connor (USA), member since 2008, supported the Global Consensus-Based Palliative Care Definition and participated in the COVID-19 Briefing Notes.
Featured Story
- Nahla Gafer (Sudan), member since 2009, participated in the Global Palliative Care Database.
Meet Our Members
- Jennifer Ong (Australia) has been a member since 2021.
- Piyush Gupta (India), has been an individual member since 2009 and is a representative of two institutional members: the Cancer Aid Society and the National Association of Palliative Care for AYUSH & Integrative Medicine.
Members’ Impact
- Rachel Coghlan (Australia), member since 2020, participated in the COVID-19 Briefing Notes and serves as an Advocacy Focal Point.
- Chamath Fernando (Sri Lanka), member since 2017, supported the Global Consensus-Based Palliative Care Definition.
- Gary Rodin (Canada), member since 2020, participated in the COVID-19 Briefing Notes.
- Nahla Gafer (Sudan), member since 2009, participated in the Global Palliative Care Database.
Links to IAHPC programs mentioned above: Global Consensus-Based Palliative Care Definition, COVID-19 Briefing Notes and Global Palliative Care Database.
List of Members
A list of individuals who joined, or renewed their membership with, IAHPC during the past month.
Membership renewals
| Name | Country |
|---|---|
| Family Health Care Association - Mary Potter Palliative Care Center (Korca Palliative Care Center) | Albania |
| Leanne Gunn | Australia |
| Claudia Burla | Brazil |
| Lorea Chilton | Canada |
| Diane A. Dykeman-Sabado | Dominican Republic |
| Hospice La Cima | El Salvador |
| Vivienne T. Mitchel | Guyana |
| Avinash Kumar Tiwari | India |
| Varghese Abraham | India |
| Dingle Spence | Jamaica |
| Richard Lim | Malaysia |
| Bernardo Villa | Mexico |
| Nubia Olivares | Nicaragua |
| Rwanda Palliative Care and Hospice Organisation (RPCHO) | Rwanda |
| Hanneke (Johanna) Lubbe | South Africa |
| Mitchell Robert Scott | South Africa |
| Chitra Weerakkody | Sri Lanka |
| Palliative Care Association of Uganda (PCAU) | Uganda |
| Kennedy Nkhoma | United Kingdom |
| Patrick Coyne | United States |
| Regina Susana Okhuysen-Cawley | United States |
New members
| Name | Country | Santiago Otalvaro Zapata | Colombia |
|---|---|
| Camila Hoyos-Banchon | Germany |
| Ashok Kumar Gupta | India |
| Wasimul Hoda | India |
| OBANI MA. MELVIA CON | Philippines |
| Sociedad Espanola de Cuidados Paliativos (SECPAL) | Spain |
| Cihan Alp | Turkey |
| International Neuropalliative Care Society | United States |
See the full list of IAHPC members
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