Message from the Chair and Executive Director
Dear readers:
We have some important announcements regarding our board of directors:
We are proud to announce that Doctors MR Rajagopal and Carla Ripamonti have been elected as IAHPC Lifetime Board Advisers due their distinct commitment, service, leadership and contribution to the IAHPC in their role as board directors. Congratulations to Doctors Rajagopal and Ripamonti. We are honored to have the opportunity to work by their side.
As many of you are aware, we recently completed the election of board members. Eleven candidates were nominated and we are also proud to announce the following new members to the board for the term Jan 2012-Dec 2014:
Mhoira Leng, MD is a specialist palliative care physician currently holding two positions: Head of Palliative Care in Makerere University in Uganda and Medical Director of Cairdeas International Palliative Care Trust in Scotland.
Bernard Lapointe, MD is the Chief of the Marjorie & Gerald Bronfman Division of Palliative Care in the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal and associate professor of Palliative Medicine in the departments of Family Medicine and Oncology at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
Eric Krakauer, MD, PhD is Assistant Professor of Medicine and Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School (USA) and a practicing internist and palliative medicine specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital where he also co-chairs the clinical ethics committee.
Arthur Lipman, Pharm D, is University Professor of Pharmacotherapy, Adjunct Professor of Anesthesiology, and Director of Clinical Pharmacology, Pain Management Center, at the University of Utah, USA.
We welcome these extraordinary leaders in palliative care to our board and look forward to their participation as directors of this organization.
Two board members were nominated and re-elected to the Board:
Florian Strasser, MD, is associate professor of oncology palliative medicine in St. Gallen (Switzerland) in the cantonal hospital, where he is responsible for the clinical and research activities in oncology palliative care.
James Cleary, MD is Associate Professor of Medicine (Division of Heme/Onc) at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health; Director of the Palliative Care Program at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics; Program Leader of the UW Paul P Carbone Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Cancer Control Program and Director of the Pain and Policy Studies Group, a WHO Collaborating Center for Policy and Communication in Cancer Care.
Doctors Strasser and Cleary have been extremely helpful in supporting IAHPC and our programs. We are very glad that they will continue working with us for the next three years.
In this edition we are featuring profiles of our new board members, with their photos and bios. You can learn more about the current board at the directors’ page in www.hospicecare.com/Organisation/#directors
We are also happy to announce the following grantees of the Traveling Scholarships to the Latin American Association in Palliative Care Congress in Curitiba, Brazil next March:
Selma Bermudez - Belize
Maria Victoria Mera Gamboa - Colombia
Mirian Gonzalez - Panama
Victoria Rey - Argentina
Veronica Veloso - Argentina
Camila Cristofero Yamashita - Brazil
Lupe Machi - Colombia
Tania Pastrana - Colombia
Marta Ximena Leon - Colombia
Ximena Pozo - Ecuador
Sylvia Blijdenstein - Guatemala
Silvia Rivas - Guatemala
Maricarmen Gonzalez - Mexico
Mariela Hidalgo - Venezuela
Jorge Amado Grau - Cuba
Gerardo Arturo Orellana Yescas – El Salvador
Preference was given to applicants who had accepted posters, oral presentations and sessions in the congress; to individuals living and working in Latin America and to applicants who had not received Traveling Scholarships in the previous three years.
Congratulations to the grantees for being awarded these scholarships. We hope that the congress will help you advance palliative care in your countries and the regions. We look forward to meeting them personally in Curitiba and to their reports after they have completed their travels.
Until next month.
Roberto Wenk, MD
Chair, Board of Directors
Liliana De Lima, MHA
Executive Director
Six Board Members Elected
The New members are:
Eric L. Krakauer, MD, PhD
Dr. Krakauer is Assistant Professor of Medicine and of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a practicing internist and palliative medicine specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital where he also co-chairs the clinical ethics committee.
He has been working in Vietnam since 2001 when he founded the Vietnam-CDC-Harvard Medical School AIDS Partnership (VCHAP) to provide training and technical assistance in HIV/AIDS treatment to Vietnam’s physicians and nurses in partnership with the Ministry of Health and thereby to help enable introduction and scale-up of anti-retroviral therapy.
As Director of International Programs at the Harvard Medical School Center for Palliative Care since 2005, he has assisted Vietnam’s Ministry of Health and major cancer centers and general hospitals to integrate pain relief and palliative care into the country’s healthcare system. He also is working with Partners In Health, an NGO based at Harvard Medical School, to integrate palliative care into cancer and non-communicable disease treatment programs in Rwanda and Malawi.
Dr. Krakauer studied German literature and philosophy at Columbia and in Berlin and received his PhD in philosophy and MD from Yale. He trained in internal medicine and medical ethics at Yale-New Haven Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. He was a Faculty Scholar of the Project on Death in America and currently serves as a Consultant to the International Palliative Care Initiative of the Open Society Foundations. He also is an Associate Faculty Member of the San Diego Institute of Palliative Medicine and a member of the International Expert Collaborative of the International Pain Policy Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin.
Bernard Lapointe, MD
Bernard Lapointe became involved with the care of the dying in 1986 while working in one of Montreal’s busiest AIDS clinics. From 1989-1991, he served as Chief of the Bureau of Care Treatment and Support at the Federal Centre for AIDS (Health Canada) and continued his AIDS practice in Montreal. In 1991, he returned to the full-time practice of medicine, joining Balfour Mount’s team at the Royal Victoria Palliative Care Service.
In 1995, he became responsible for the undergraduate program of Palliative Medicine teaching at McGill and in 1998 was appointed Director of the Palliative Care Service at the Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal. Bernard joined the Jewish General Hospital team as Chief of The Marjorie & Gerald Bronfman Division of Palliative Care in September 2001 and has since also been an associate professor of Palliative Medicine in the departments of Family Medicine and Oncology at McGill University. He was awarded the Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Award of excellence in 2007.
He served as president of the Quebec Palliative Care Association and of the Canadian
Hospice Palliative Care Association.
Mhoira E F Leng, MD
Dr Mhoira E F Leng is a specialist palliative care physician currently holding two positions as Head of Palliative Care in Makerere University, Uganda and the Medical Director of Cairdeas International Palliative Care Trust, Scotland. [email protected]
Trained as a doctor and then physician in internal medicine in Aberdeen University, Dr Mhoira then specialised in Palliative Medicine. She took up a senior consultant and honourary senior lecturer position at Aberdeen University for 10 years leading developments in the North East of Scotland and including several national roles for the NHS as well as advisory and training roles for the Royal Colleges. She is a Fellow of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of Edinburgh (1999) and Glasgow (2001).
She has a particular interest in international palliative care and is committed to working alongside partners in the developing world to build capacity, offer mentorship, support curriculum development and new models of care. Since 1998 she has travelled to Eastern Europe, extensively within India as well as Africa leaving the NHS in 2005 to allow her to work full time in international settings.
In 2008 Makerere University invited her to develop an academic unit for palliative care in the university and the national referral hospital to act as a centre of excellence for research, training and clinical services and to build capacity for Ugandan and African clinical leadership alongside key partners such as Hospice Africa Uganda, the Palliative Care Association of Uganda and the African Palliative Care Association. Key achievements include the development and implementation of a model clinical service, research agenda, undergraduate and postgraduate training and support for a BSc in Palliative care at Makerere University run by Hospice Africa Uganda. Dr Mhoira continues to work in India for 2 months every year alongside partners Pallium India and EHA mainly supporting palliative care developments in areas where it is very scarce.
Dr Mhoira also is medical director (and founder) for Cairdeas International Palliative Care Trust which is a Scottish registered charitable trust whose vision is to facilitate the growth of palliative care in the developing world by supporting education and training. www.cairdeas.org.uk and www.mhoiraleng.blogspot.com.
Arthur G. Lipman, PharmD, FASHP
Arthur G. Lipman, PharmD, FASHP, is University Professor of Pharmacotherapy, Adjunct Professor of Anesthesiology, and Director of Clinical Pharmacology, Pain Management Center, at the University of Utah. Formerly, he was on the faculty of the Yale University School of Medicine and Graduate School of Nursing.
He served on the federal Acute and Cancer Pain Management Guidelines Panels; is a hospice consultant and past-president, was president of Cancer Pain Relief-Utah; served on the Board of Directors of the American Alliance of Cancer Pain Initiatives; and as a consultant to the FDA, NIH and other federal agencies.
His palliative care experience includes U.S. National Cancer Institute-funded hospice demonstration project, New Haven; St. Christopher’s Hospice, London; Sir Michael Sobell House, Oxford; and the Palliative Care Services at the University of Utah. Lipman was co-chair of the Arthritis Pain Management Clinical Guidelines Panel of the American Pain Society; served on the American Cancer Society National Cancer Pain Advisory Group; American Pain Society Analgesic Regulatory Affairs Committee; the Ethics Task Force of the American Pain Society and American Academy of Pain Medicine; and was co-editor of the American Pain Society Analgesic Principles 5th edition. He has published over 250 articles, chapters and monographs plus over 300 reviews and editorials. He has made over 600 invited presentations at national and international meetings and is founding editor of the Journal of Pain & Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy.
2 Board Members re-elected to the board:
Drs James Cleary (USA) and Florian Strasser (Switzerland) were re-elected to a second term on the board. Their bios may be found at -- http://www.hospicecare.com/Organisation/#directors
2 IAHPC Lifetime Advisers elected:
Two of our very active and long time board members, Drs Carla Ripamonti (Italy) and MR Rajagopal (India), were elected to a new position as Lifetime Board Advisers. Their bios are at: http://www.hospicecare.com/Organisation/#directors
Congratulations to all and thanks for your dedication to our mission!
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