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Course Announcement
OSI Seminar
on
Education in Palliative and End-of-Life Care for Oncology (EPEC™-O) Curriculum
March 21 – March 27, 2010
Parkhotel Castellani, Salzburg, Austria
The Open Society Institute’s International Palliative Care Initiative (IPCI) is pleased to
invite you to apply to participate in a special seminar on the Education in Palliative
and End-of-Life Care for Oncology (EPEC™-O) Curriculum, to be held March 21 –
March 27, 2010 at Parkhotel Castellani in Salzburg, Austria.
The EPEC-O Curriculum is open-access, free to disseminate and easily adaptable to
patients with cancer and other advanced illnesses.
Goals
The two main goals of the seminar are 1) to provide practicing clinicians with
information and strategies necessary to provide evidence-based palliative interventions
to their patients and 2) to introduce participants to comprehensive educational tools and
materials they can use to teach the core competencies of palliative care to practicing
healthcare professionals and trainees.
The conference will be held in English. There will be small group discussions and role
play which will require absolute proficiency in English.
Faculty
The course will be co-directed by Dr. Frank D. Ferris and Dr. Kathleen Foley. Dr. Ferris
is the Director of the International Programs at the Institute for Palliative Medicine at the
San Diego Hospice and has expertise in Palliative Medicine, Radiation Oncology and
effective approaches to teaching. Dr. Kathleen M. Foley is the Medical Director of the
International Palliative Care Initiative, Open Society Institute, New York, NY, Attending
Neurologist in the Pain & Palliative Care Service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer
Center, and Professor of Neurology, Neuroscience, and Clinical Pharmacology at Weill
Medical College of Cornell University. Dr. Foley has expertise in Pain Management,
Palliative Medicine, Neurology and Public Health Strategies for integrating palliative
care into existing healthcare systems.
Faculty members will include:
Dr. Charles F. von Gunten, Provost of the Institute for Palliative Medicine at San Diego
Hospice; he has expertise in Palliative Medicine, Medical Oncology and effective
approaches to teaching.
Mary V. Callaway, Director, International Palliative Care Initiative, Open Society
Institute, New York, NY; she has expertise in educational resources and Public Health
Strategies for integrating palliative care into existing healthcare systems.
Dr. Eugenie Obbens, Attending Neurologist in the Pain and Palliative Care Service of
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC); she has expertise in the
neurological complications of cancer with special interest in neuropathic cancer pain.
She is the previous acting Chief of the Pain and Palliative Care Service at MSKCC.
Costs Covered
The cost of round-trip economy airfare or railroad travel, hotel accommodations, and all
meals will be provided.
PLEASE NOTE, as of January 1, 2007, visa costs, in-country transportation costs,
insurance, and per diems ARE NO LONGER COVERED and are the responsibility of
each participant. Eligible participants will be citizens from countries in Central and
Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union who are living and working in their home
country. Participants from Africa and Southeast Asia who are living and working in their
home country are also encouraged to apply. 1 All participants must be able and
committed to attend the entire course.
Who Should Apply
Physicians working in oncology or hospice and palliative care, who wish to expand their
knowledge in palliative and end-of-life care in caring for persons with cancer, will be
given priority. Physicians in the following disciplines are eligible to apply: primary care,
internal medicine, geriatrics, public health, oncology, hospice and palliative medicine,
family medicine, HIV/AIDS and pediatrics. The ideal applicant will care for patients on a
weekly basis, teach other healthcare professionals and trainees on a regular basis,
belong to a university curriculum committee, belong to a national or international
professional organization, or hold a position of influence – for example, a deputy
director of a medical center. Candidates fulfilling all four criteria will be given priority.
Course Content
The course will include both interactive plenary and workshop sessions that cover:
 Challenges and goals of palliative care... an introduction to the need for, and
concepts of palliative care
 Components of a comprehensive assessment
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Participants coming from countries in Africa and Southeast Asia will be responsible for arranging and
paying for their own economy-class travel and will be reimbursed for their airfare in Salzburg.
 Pain and other symptom management, including nausea, vomiting, constipation,
and bowel obstruction, anorexia/cachexia, edema/effusions, anxiety, depression,
and delirium.
 Approaches to effective
o communication
o negotiating goals of care
o clarifying that diagnosi go to sleep go to sleep s and prognosis
o advance care planning, including the use of the “Go Wish” cards
o withdrawing fluids and nutrition
 How to manage the legal complications
 Care during the last hours of life
 Palliative care as a human right
 Educational resources for palliative care, including an overview of the International
Palliative Care Resource Center (IPCRC.net)
 Strategies for developing comprehensive cancer care in your institution
Discussions will also highlight applications of this content to patients with diseases other
than cancer.
Faculty Backgrounds
Dr. Frank D. Ferris, MD, FAAHPM
Dr. Frank D. Ferris is the Director of the International Programs at The Institute for
Palliative Medicine at San Diego Hospice, a teaching affiliate of the University of
California, San Diego, School of Medicine.
Dr. Ferris is a Consultant to the International Palliative Care Initiatives, Network Public
Health Program, Open Society Institute, New York, NY, a member of the Board of the
International Association for Hospice & Palliative Care; Co-principal of the Education on
Palliative and End-of-life Care (EPEC) Project based at Northwestern University
Medical School, Chicago, IL; Consultant to the Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative Care,
Toronto, Canada, a teaching affiliate of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto;
author / editor of A Model to Guide Hospice Palliative Care: based on National
Principles and Norms Of Practice, Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association
(CHPCA) for which he was awarded a Golden Jubilee Medal of Her Majesty Queen
Elizabeth II by the Governor General of Canada, May 2003, and a National Leadership
Award by CHPCA in September 2005; and Co-author of I Can’t Stop Crying: It’s So
Hard When Someone You Love Dies with John Martin, published by Key Porter Books.
He is particularly interested in strategies for integrating palliative care into existing
healthcare systems worldwide. He has published and spoken widely on multiple
palliative care subjects, and effective approaches to education and program
implementation.
Dr. Ferris received an Honours Bachelor of Science Degree in Cooperative Applied
Chemistry from the University of Waterloo, in 1975. He graduated from McMaster
Medical School, Hamilton, Ontario in 1981. He pursued postgraduate training in Internal
Medicine and Radiation Oncology at the University of Toronto. He completed a
Fellowship in Pain and Symptom Management at the Toronto-Sunnybrook Regional
Cancer Centre in 1991. He became Board-certified with the American Board of Hospice
and Palliative Medicine in 1998 and a Fellow of the American Academy of Hospice and
Palliative Medicine (FAAHPM) in 2008. He was a Faculty Scholar with the Project on
Death in America from 1998-2000. He continues with appointments as Clinical
Professor, Voluntary, in the Department of Family & Preventative Medicine, University
of California, San Diego School of Medicine, San Diego, CA; and Assistant Professor,
Adjunct, Department of Family and Community Medicine, and Member, Joint Centre for
Bioethics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
Dr. Charles F. von Gunten, MD, PhD, FACP, FAAHPM
Dr. Charles F. von Gunten is the Provost, Institute for Palliative Medicine at San Diego
Hospice, a teaching and research affiliate of the University of California, San Diego,
University of San Diego and San Diego State University. He holds an established
investigator award from the National Cancer Institute. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the
Journal of Palliative Medicine. The Institute for Palliative Medicine hosts the largest
fellowship program in palliative medicine in the US. He is the Chairman, Test
Committee, Hospice & Palliative Medicine, American Board of Medical Specialties. He
is a past President of the American Association for Cancer Education. He was CoPrincipal for the Education for Physicians on End-of-life Care (EPEC) Project and its
revision for oncology, EPEC-O. He is an expert for the Center to Advance Palliative
Care (CAPC) on developing hospital-based palliative care programs. He serves as
Medical Director of the Doris A. Howell Service, a palliative care consultation service at
the UCSD Medical Center. He has been particularly interested in the integration of
hospice and palliative care into academic medicine. He has published and spoken
widely on the subjects of hospice, palliative medicine, and pain and symptom control.
Dr. von Gunten received the Bachelor of Arts Degree with honors from Brown University
in Providence, Rhode Island in 1978. He then earned a PhD in Biochemistry and the
MD degree with honors from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in
Denver, Colorado in 1988. He subsequently pursued residency training in Internal
Medicine, followed by subspecialty training in Hematology/Oncology at the McGaw
Medical Center of Northwestern University in Chicago. He joined the faculty as an
assistant professor of medicine at Northwestern University Medical School until 1999
where he directed programs in hospice and palliative care, education, and research. He
currently holds the academic rank of Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine,
University of California, San Diego where he is a member of the NIH-designated
Moores Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Dr. Kathleen M. Foley, MD, PhD
Dr. Kathleen M. Foley is an Attending Neurologist in the Pain & Palliative Care Service
at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City and is also Professor of
Neurology, Neuroscience, and Clinical Pharmacology at Weill Medical College of
Cornell University, and previous Director of the WHO Collaborating Center for Cancer
Pain Research and Education at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. She holds
the Chair of the Society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Pain Research.
She was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences for
her national and international efforts in the treatment of patients with cancer pain. She
is the past Director of the Project on Death in America of the Open Society Institute
whose goal was to transform the culture of dying in the United States through initiatives
in research, scholarship and clinical care. Dr. Foley is currently the Medical Director of
the International Palliative Care Initiative of the Public Health Program of the Open
Society Institute working to advance palliative care globally.
Dr. Foley has focused her career on the assessment and treatment of patients with
cancer pain. With her colleagues, she has developed scientific guidelines for the use of
analgesic drug therapy through clinic pharmacologic studies of opioid drugs.
Dr. Foley has received numerous awards and honors for her work. She received the
Distinguished Service Award and the Humanitarian Award from the American Cancer
Society, the David Karnovsky Award from American Society of Clinical Oncology, and
the Frank Netter Award from the American Academy of Neurology. She is a previous
Rita Allen Scholar.
Dr. Foley chaired three expert committees that resulted in the publication of the three
WHO monographs on Cancer Pain and Palliative Care; “Cancer Pain Relief” (1996),
“Cancer Pain Relief and Palliative Care” (1990), and “Cancer Pain and Palliative Care in
Children” (1996).
Mary V. Callaway, MME
Mary Callaway is the Director of the International Palliative Care Initiative (IPCI) of the
Public Health Program at the Open Society Institute. The goal of the initiative is to
enhance palliative care development internationally with a specific focus on Central and
Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Southeast Asia, South Africa, Southern
Africa, and East Africa.
From 1994 to 2003 she served as the Associate Director for the Project on Death in
America of the Open Society Institute, a 45 million dollar initiative to improve end of life
care in the United States. Prior to joining OSI, she was the Administrator for the Pain
and Palliative Care Service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York
City for 16 years. In that position she served the Executive Director for the World Health
Organization’s (WHO) Collaborating Center for Cancer Pain Research and Education.
She also developed educational programs for health care professionals and managed
over 4 million dollars a year in research grants and philanthropic support. She organized
and managed the working group for the development and dissemination of the WHO
1996 monograph “Cancer Pain Relief and Palliative Care in Children”.
She is a founding member of the United States Cancer Pain Relief Committee. She is a
member of the Steering Group for the Worldwide Palliative Care Alliance and serves on
both the advocacy and policy working groups. She is on the Steering Group of the
International Children’s Palliative Care Network and a member of the African Palliative
Care Association pain management working group which has planned and implemented
three regional drug advocacy workshops to increase opioid availability.
She serves on the grants committee of the Virginia Gildersleeve Foundation and has
served as a technical advisor to national and international foundations interested in
advancing palliative care.
With Dr. Frank Ferris, she recently edited the JPSM volume on International Palliative
Care.
Dr. Eugenie A.M.T. Obbens, MD, PhD
Dr. Obbens is an Attending Neurologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center,
where she is active in patient care and teaching in both Neuro-Oncology and in Pain
and Palliative Care. She is also a Clinical Professor of Neurology at Weill Medical
College of Cornell University
Dr. Obbens has carried out research on the care of patients with primary and metastatic
brain tumors and on various treatment aspects of cancer pain management. She has
authored or co-authored over 70 peer-reviewed papers, abstracts, book chapters and
invited reviews. Dr. Obbens has been a consultant for the World Health Organization’s
Cancer Unit in Geneva, Switzerland, and has published teaching material on the WHO
Cancer Pain Guidelines. She was the acting Chief of the Pain and Palliative Care
Service at MSKCC form 2004 to 2008 and the Director of the both the pain fellowship
program and palliative care fellowship program from 2004 to 2008.
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We welcome country coordinators to forward the announcement and application on to
hospitals, colleges, and universities.
Application, Selection Process
All applications must be received by November 1st, 2009.
The final selection of participants will be made by the OSI course directors.
Selected candidates will be notified by December 2009.
Open Society Institute/SOROS Foundation
Open Medical Institute
Salzburg Medical Seminars International, 2010
Application Form
Seminar you are applying for:
Seminar Date
Education in Palliative and
End-of-Life Care for Oncology
(EPEC™-O) Curriculum
Sun. Mar. 21 –
Sat. Mar. 27, 2010
Deadline for Application
November 1st, 2009
Please type your answers in ENGLISH and email this completed form to
[email protected]
Family name (as it appears on your passport):
First name:
Title:
Name of Institution:
Department:
Work Mailing Address:
Work and home email address:
Passport Number:
Sex (male or female):
Date of birth (day/month/year):
Place of birth:
Country of Citizenship:
Date Issued:
ID Number:
Date Issued:
Home Mailing Address (invitation letters will be sent to you at home):
Home telephone number:
Please answer the following questions:
1. When did you complete medical school?
2. Are you on the curriculum committee at your university?
3. Are you proficient in English? Speaking, Reading, and Writing?
4. How many palliative care patients do you care for in one week?
5. Do you teach practicing oncologists or other healthcare professionals? How many
each year?
6. Do you teach medical trainees (medical students and residents)? How many each
year?
7. Do you work with other colleagues in providing palliative care?
8. Are you a member of a professional medical association? If so, which one(s)?
9. Are you a member of your national hospice or palliative care association?
10. Please explain why you are interested in attending this special Education in
Palliative and End-of-Life Care for Oncology (EPEC™-O) Course and how you will
use this new knowledge when you return home.
11. Please rank your knowledge of palliative care – beginning, intermediate, advanced.
12. Please rank your knowledge of cancer care – beginning, intermediate, advanced.
13. What medications are available in your country to treat pain?
14. What medications are available in your country to treat patients with nausea and
vomiting, depression, anxiety, delirium?
15. Do you understand that you must attend every lecture during the entire course?
16. Do you understand that visa costs, in-country transportation costs, insurance, and
per diems are no longer covered and are the responsibility of each participant?
Please attach, as one document if possible, the following materials along with
your application form and send to Rebekah Chang at [email protected]

CV (curriculum vitae)
If you have questions please email [email protected].