Message from the Chair and Executive Director
Dear readers:
This month we have several important announcements:
Board Elections: We received 17 nominations by members from around the world. Later this month, the Board will be electing 6 individuals to fill the available positions. New directors will be announced in our March Newsletter. Many thanks to all those who participated in this nomination process and for your interest in joining IAHPC.
Traveling Scholarships: As we recently announced, IAHPC will provide ten scholarships to help individuals from developing countries cover their cost of travel and stay for the 12 th Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC) in Lisbon, Portugal May 18-21, 2011. This edition includes the announcement, criteria and instructions to apply.
AAHPM/HPNA Annual Assembly in Vancouver: We are happy to announce that the IAHPC will be offering a special promotional discount for participants who want to join IAHPC as members during the AAHPM/HPNA Assembly in Vancouver, February 16-19, 2011. We need your help to spread the word!
IAHPC will be offering to participants of this Assembly a one year membership at half the regular price of $50 for the first year of membership for individuals living in High resource countries as defined by the World Bank. Individuals attending the meeting from other countries may also apply for a 50% discount based on a sliding scale.
If you are planning on attending, please help us promote this great opportunity. There are ways you can help:
• Stop by our booth and help us distribute fliers during the exhibit hours
• Invite your friends to join IAHPC!
• Share this email with your colleagues and ask them to spread the word.
Membership Drive: Many thanks to all the members who recently renewed or joined IAHPC! If you have not renewed your membership or know of colleagues who should join, please forward this message to them. As a reminder, some of the IAHPC’s Membership Benefits are:
- Unlimited online access / downloads of full text articles from hundreds of journals as well as leading palliative care journals that include:
- Journal of Palliative Medicine
- Palliative Medicine
- Progress in Palliative Care
- International Journal of Palliative Nursing
- Journal of Pain and Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy
- And many more!
- The possibility to support & participate in IAHPC’s global aims to:
- Ensure Global Opioid Availability with the WHO, INCB, and other UN Organizations
- Recognize Pain Treatment as a Human Right with Human Rights Watch, UICC and other organizations
- Implement Essential Medicines & Essential Palliative Care Practices in every country
- Eligibility for a travel grant to learn or teach
We hope you will consider joining or renewing your membership so that you can start enjoying all these benefits. Learn more...
This month we have added a new section in our Newsletter to recognize the individuals and institutions that support IAHPC either through donations and/or membership. They deserve this space and credit as a means of saying thanks for their support which enables us to achieve our mission.
Until next month,
Roberto Wenk, MD
Chair, Board of Directors
Liliana De Lima, MHA
Executive Director
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