Asia Pacific Hospice Conference

13th Asia Pacific Hospice Conference, 1 - 4 August 2019, Indonesia, Surabaya

Abstract Submission OFFLINE Programme (Tentative) English pre-conference workshops Plenary Speakers Bio Speakers Bio Rosalie Shaw Travel Scholarship and APHN Bursaries Acknowledgement page Oral Presentation Outcome

Abstract Submission OFFLINE

Programme (Tentative)

English pre-conference workshops

Workshop 1A - Integration & Standard of Palliative Care in Clinical Oncology

Workshop 1B - Comprehensive Assessment of Patients

Workshop 2 - Paediatric Palliative Care

Morning session: Facilitating Ongoing Dialogues with Adolescents

9:00 – 9:45 Button Game – Insight into the Mindset of the Adolescent (by Dr Khoo Boon Hock)

9:45– 10:30 Adolescent’s grief and current evidence (by Dr Lee Chee Chan)

10:30 – 11:15 How to communicate with the Adolescent through Arts (by Ms Reena Clare)

11:15 – 11:30 Tea Break

11:30 – 13:00 Group Workshop (3 groups rotating in 3 stations, 30 minutes per station)

Station 1: Live demo of button game (by Dr Khoo Boon Hock)
Station 2: Facilitated communication with storybooks, puppets and ‘miniatures’ (by Dr Lee Chee Chan)
Station 3: Hands-on bereavement support through Arts (by Ms Reena Clare)

Children with Genetic Syndromes and Chronic Illness

14:00 - 15:00 Palliative Care issues in Genetic Disorders: Patients, Caregivers and Society (by Dr Ch’ng Gaik Siew)

15:00 – 15:15 Tea Break

15:15 – 16:15 Does palliative care add value to the care of children with Chronic Illness: Neurology, Cardiology and Nephrology? (by Dr Lee Chee Chan)

16:15 – 16:30 Q & A and Feedback

Plenary Speakers Bio

	Dr Joanne LYNN, MD, MA, MS is the director of the Program to Improve ElderCare at the Altarum Institute. One of the first hospice physicians in the US, Dr. Lynn is author of more than 250 articles and a dozen books on palliative and end of life care. She is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine, Master in the American College of Physicians, Fellow of both the American Geriatrics Society and the Hastings Center, where she was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award in Ethics and Life Sciences, and former faculty member of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. Previously a medical officer for the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), she helped craft 2010-2011 CMS reforms relating to care transitions, post-hospital, long-term care, home hospice and community settings. Dr Lynn received an MS in Evaluative Clinical Sciences from Dartmouth College, MA in Philosophy and Social Policy from George Washington Universtiry and MD at Boston University.
	Dr David HUI, MD, MSc, is a tenured associate professor at the Department of Palliative Care, Rehabilitation and Integrative Medicine, with a joint appointment to the Department of General Oncology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA. His research interests include symptom management clinical trials, prognostication, integration of supportive/palliative care into oncology and research methodology. He is the principal investigator of several randomized controlled trials supported by research grants from the National Cancer Institute, the National Institute of Nursing Research and the American Cancer Society. He has authored and/or co-authored over 200 scientific papers, with his work appearing at various peer-review journals such as JAMA, J Clin Oncol, CA, Lancet Oncol and Ann Oncol. He is also the author/editor of 4 books (Approach to Internal Medicine, Drugs & Drugs, and Internal Medicine Issues in Palliative Cancer Care, 50 Palliative Care Studies Every Doctor Should Know). Dr Hui has served on several NIH grant review panels and is currently an Associate Editor of the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. Recognized with multiple clinical, research, teaching, and leadership awards, he is a frequent speaker at various national and international meetings. In addition to academic pursuits, he remains active clinically in both palliative care and medical oncology.
	Dr Marie BAKITAS, DNSc, NP-C, AOCN, ACHPN, FAAN, is Professor & Marie L. O’ Koren Endowed chair at the School of Nursing. She is also the Co-Director at Center for Palliative & Supportive Care at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). She has participated in or led over 50 clinical trials in symptom management & early palliative care. She has developed innovative methods, such as telehealth & teleconsultation, to reduce health disparities for Deep South rural & minority cancer patients & family caregivers through an implementation trial. She is also collaborating with colleagues in Turkey, Honduras, and Singapore to adapt ENABLE for these cultures. She has extended this work to advanced heart failure patients and their family via an in-progress NINR-funded R01 “ENABLE: CHF-PC: RCT of a Concurrent Heart Failure Palliative Care Intervention for Rural, Older Adults and their Caregivers”. Dr Bakitas has published over 100 original data-based papers, book chapters and books. Among her research & mentoring awards are the 2015 Friends of the NINR Path-Paver Award, 2016 HPNA Distinguished Researcher Award, the UAB Minority Health Research 2016 Charles Barkley Excellence in Mentoring Award & the Dean’s Excellence in Mentoring Award. Dr Bakitas received her ADN & BSN from the University of Bridgeport, MS in rehabilitation/oncology nursing from Boston University, post-master’s certification as an adult nurse practitioner from the University of New Hampshire, & doctoral degree (DNSc) & post-doctoral fellowship from Yale University. She is certified in Adult Health, Hospice & Palliative Care & Oncology.
	Professor David CURROW, BMed, PhD, MPH, FRACP, FAChPM, FAHMS, GAICD, is a Professor of Palliative Medicine at University of Technology Sydney, the Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor of Palliative and Supportive Care, Flinders University and Associate Director (Research) at the Wolfson Palliative Care Research Centre, University of Hull, England. Research includes clinical trials and use of large datasets to understand better the impact of life-limiting illnesses on patients and caregivers. Research into chronic breathlessness is a particular area of expertise. He is the principal investigator for the Australian national Palliative Care Clinical Studies Collaborative (PaCCSC) which has randomised more than 1850 people to phase III symptom control studies, and supports an active international phase IV collaborative with data on more than 1150 people from 11 countries. These studies have been shown to influence clinical practice. He is a foundation partner in the Australian Palliative Care Outcomes Collaborative (PCOC), an initiative to improve palliative care clinical outcomes. David has published more than 540 peer-reviewed articles, editorials and books. He is senior associate editor of Journal of Palliative Medicine and Editor of the 5th and 6th editions of the Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine. David is a former president of Palliative Care Australia and the Clinical Oncological Society of Australia.
	Professor Josephine CLAYTON, MBBS, PhD, FRACP, FAChPM, is a Senior Staff Specialist Physician in Palliative Medicine for HammondCare’s Palliative and Supportive Care Service, based at Greenwich Hospital in Sydney and Professor of Palliative Care, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney. She is Director of HammondCare’s Centre for Learning & Research in Palliative Care. Josephine leads a research program that aims to improve communication between patients, families and clinicians in order to enhance palliative and end-of-life care. Her research has been published extensively in leading international journals in palliative care and oncology, and widely translated into clinical practice. She also has a strong interest in teaching communication skills relevant to the care of patients with life limiting illnesses. Josephine is Director of the Advance Project, a National program funded by the Australian government ( www.theadvanceproject.com.au ). The Advance Project provides training and support for clinicians in primary care settings to initiate conversations with their patients about palliative care and advance care planning. Josephine is passionate about finding ways to help improve the palliative care of patients and their families facing an advanced progressive life limiting illness.

Speakers Bio

	Dr Suresh K. REDDY, MD (Gandhi Medical College, Hyderabad, India), Diplomate in Anesthesia (England), Fellow, Faculty of Anesthetist Royal College of Surgeons (Ireland), moved to the United States where he joined as a senior resident at New York University Medical Center (1991) where he specialized in Neuroanesthesia and Cardiac Anesthesia. This was followed by a Pain Fellowship at The University of Rochester, NY and later a Pain & Symptom Management Fellowship in the Department of Neuro-Oncology at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center (1994-1996). He is Board Certified in Anesthesia, by the American Board of Anesthesiology (ABA), subspecialty Board Certification in Pain Management (1994, recertification 2005, by ABA), and Board Certified by the American Board of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (2003, recertification in 2012). On completion of his Fellowship training, Dr Reddy accepted an appointment as Assistant Professor to the MD. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas where he became the Director of the Pain Fellowship Program, in the Division of Anesthesiology. In 1999, Dr Reddy joined the newly established Department of Symptom Control and Palliative Care under Professor, Eduardo Bruera. He was later promoted to Associate Professor in 2003 and to a professor in 2010. In his current position as a Director of Education and Section Chief, he has maintained a strong focus on clinical care, administration, and education in the field of Palliative Medicine. Current research interests include cancer pain, communication skills and education outcomes for oncology fellows. He is also noted for International efforts and regularly teaches palliative care in India. Dr. Reddy is the Co-Chair of ECHO Project in Africa.
	Dr LEE Chee Chan, MBBS(UM), Masters in Paediatrics (UM), MRCPCH (UK), has been passionately learning ways to improve the lives of dying children since internship. As a qualified paediatrician, he has worked in major and district hospitals in Malaysia since year 2011. He completed three years of subspecialty training as a fellow in Paediatric Palliative Medicine, including a stint in Royal Marsden Hospital, London, UK in year 2017. He started the first paediatric palliative specialist service in a government hospital in Malaysia, offering inpatient and outpatient consultations, home and school visits, transition care, grief and bereavement support, paediatric chronic pain service, as well as collaborations with district hospitals and hospices that renders community paediatric palliative care.
	Dr KHOO Boon Hock, BBS (MAL), MRCP (UK), FAAP (USA), FRACP (AUSTRALIA), MSc (Distinction, LONDON), D.C.H. (LONDON), D.T.M. & H. (LONDON), Diplomate of The American Board of Pediatrics, is a consultant paediatrician in private practice with more than 40 years of clinical experience in the USA, UK, Singapore and Malaysia. He is the author of ‘Handbook of Paediatric Therapeutics’. Having witnessed the troubling trends of depression and mental ill health among children and youths, he has taken special interest in counseling them (and their parents) using ‘Button Game Therapy’, to gain insight into their mindset. For the past 10 years, he has been teaching and guiding children and adults in cultivating Human Values, Soft Skills and Mindfulness-Based Practices to prevent, reduce and cope with stress, fear, anxiety and depression; bringing about changes in the way they view, feel, think and respond to challenging life events.
	Dr CH'NG Gaik Siew, UKM (National University of Malaysia), postgraduate qualification in Paediatrics (MRCPCH, UK), is a consultant clinical geneticist at Department of Genetics, Kuala Lumpur Hospital. It serves as the national referral centre for inherited metabolic diseases and genetic disorders in Malaysia. She completed her Clinical Genetics Fellowship programme in 2011 with a scholarship awarded by the Malaysian government, that also included a year with the Institute of Human Genetics, International Centre for Life, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK. She leads the cancer genetic service in the Ministry of Health, and runs other genetic and metabolic services that span combined specialties focusing on cancer genetics, dysmorphology, Marfan syndrome, neurogenetic and rare disorders. She has a keen interest in mindfulness-based therapies and their clinical application in supporting caregivers and patients with life-limiting illnesses.
	Dr Tzong-Shiann HO, MD, MSc, is a board-certified pediatrician based in the southern part of Taiwan. He has been working as a pediatric emergency physician and consultant in pediatric palliative care since 2009. He started pediatric home palliative service since 2017 as part of the outreach project of NCKUH. He also participate actively in improving the quality of pediatric end-of-life care in Taiwan.
	Ms Reena CLARE, Masters in Art Psychotherapy (University of Hertfordshire, UK), is a qualified Art Psychotherapist. Using an eclectic approach, a wide range of theories and working in culturally aware dimensions, sessions are personalized to meet the client’s needs. Art Psychotherapy is a psychological therapy that she uses to help clients address complex and confusing emotions, foster self-awareness, work through trauma, challenging behaviours and mental health conditions using the creative medium. She is a certified Practitioner in Children’s Accelerated Trauma Treatment (CATT), Mentalization Based Art Therapy, Mindfulness in Art Therapy, Art Therapy in Education, Schema Therapy and Neuro Dramatic Play Therapy. Reena has worked in London with various clients including those living with mental health diagnoses, special needs, bereavement, dementia, addictions and physical health conditions in the NHS, Westminster Arts, Kids Company and The European Reminiscence Network. In Malaysia she practices privately at The Mind Faculty seeing clients who could be adults, children and parents in individual, group or family sessions.
	Dr Sun Hyun KIM, MD and PhD (Yonsei University, Korea), is currently the Professor of Family Medicine, International St. Mary’s Hospital, College of Medicine, Catholic Kwandong University. She was a research scholar in the Palliative Care, Rehabilitation and Integrative Medicine department of the MD Anderson Cancer Center in 2010-2011. She was the chief of the research committee of the KOREAN SOCIETY FOR HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE and the chief of the Korean palliative research network in 2017-2018. She is the Korean representatives of Asian Delphi on Advance Care Planning Taskforce under Asia Pacific Hospice Palliative Care Network and one of the co-researcher of the EASED (East-Asian collaborative Study to Elucidate the Dying process). She is currently a member of the training committee and research committee of the KOREAN SOCIETY FOR HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE.
	Ms Sumytra MENON is a Senior Assistant Director at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics (CBmE), Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. Sumy is the Programme Director of Clinical Ethics Network + Research Ethics Support (CENTRES), which trains members of clinical, research and transplant ethics committees. Sumy is a lawyer by training. She has a particular interest in healthcare decision-making, the law at the end of life, and clinical and research ethics. She is a member of the Joint Steering Committee on Advance Care Planning (Agency for Integrated Care, Singapore) and various institutional ethics committees.
	Dr Philip YAP, an internist by training, is a senior consultant geriatrician & palliative care physician in the dept of geriatric medicine and clinical director of the geriatric centre in Khoo Teck Puat Hospital. He is also an adjunct associate professor with the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS and adjunct clinician scientist with the NanoBio Lab, Astar. He has a keen interest in both the biomedical and social aspects of ageing, especially in the areas of dementia, long term care, end of life care, support of caregivers of older persons. He presently sits on the advisory panels and committees of several organizations in eldercare, including the Agency for Integrated Care, Ministry of Health and the Board of Assisi Hospice.
	Dr Hiromichi MATSUOKA, MD, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Palliative Care Center, Kindai University Faculty of Medicine. After finishing anesthesiology residency in Nara Medical University Hospital, he completed Internal medicine and Psychosomatic Medicine fellowship. He is board-certified physician in Internal Medicine, Psychosomatic Medicine, Palliative Medicine, Psycho-Oncology, and Medical Oncology. He has learned how to proceed Randomized Controlled Trial under Prof David Currow, Jane Phillips, Meera Agar at IMPACCT-Improving Palliative, Aged and Chronic Care through Clinical Research and Translation; and PaCCSC-Palliative Care Clinical Studies Collaborative, Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Australia. He was the Principal Investigator of a project entitled "A multi-center, randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled trial of additive effect of duloxetine for neuropathic cancer pain refractory to opioids and gabapentinoids: JORTC- PAL08 (DIRECT study)." and is the Principal Investigator of an ongoing project entitled “A Phase III, international, multi-centre, double-blind, dose increment, parallel-arm, randomised controlled trial of duloxetine versus pregabalin for opioid unresponsive cancer-related neuropathic pain." His research interest involves pain (especially for neuropathic pain), chronic pain and functional pain, and mind-body interaction in physical symptoms.
	Dr Shao-Yi CHENG, MD, MSc (National Taiwan University), DrPH in Health Policy and Management (Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Healthand), completed the training in Family Medicine from National Taiwan University Hospital. She is currently Associate Professor at the Department of Family Medicine of Medical College, National Taiwan University. Her research interest involves cancer screening, women’s health, end-of-life care and quality of dying. In recent years, she has founded palliative care research network in Taiwan and has been collaborating with Japan and Korea for cross- cultural studies. After comparing the physician perceived quality of dying in three countries, she has moved into cohort II project named as EASED (East-Asian collaborative Study to Elucidate the Dying process). In addition, she is conducting study on advance care planning with School of Public Health, Kyoto University.
	Dr Diah MARTINA is a PhD candidate at Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam. She specialised in Internal Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine Universitas Indonesia.
	Dr Shinichiro MORIOKA, MD, is currently an Infectious Diseases physician at National Center for Global Health and Medicine in Tokyo, Japan. After finishing internal medicine residency, he completed pulmonary medicine fellowship at Seirei Hamamatsu General Hospital as well as infectious diseases fellowship at Shizuoka Cancer Center, Japan. He is board-certified in internal medicine, pulmonary medicine and infectious diseases. His research interests include infectious diseases management for terminally-ill cancer patient, and communication among healthcare providers. He is the Principal Investigator of an ongoing project entitled “Physicians’ and nurses’ attitudes toward infectious diseases in terminally-ill cancer patients: What determines their variabilities?
	Dr Maho AOYAMA, PhD, is the assistant professor in Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan. She received her PhD from Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine in Nursing Science. She was in charge of a nationwide bereavement survey (Japan Hospice and Palliative Care Evaluation Study 3: J-HOPE3 study) in 2014. More than 10,000 bereaved family member and 135 institutions participated in this study and around 20 papers have been published from J-HOPE3 study. Her main focus in research is evaluating the quality of care and quality of life in end of life setting, specifically psycho-social health of bereaved family members.
	Dr Annie KWOK, MD (Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong), is the Consultant & Team Head of Palliative Care Unit (Department of Medicine & Geriatrics) in Caritas Medical Centre in Hong Kong. She holds Fellowship from Hong Kong College of Physicians and Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. She is a specialist and trainer in Palliative Medicine and Advanced Internal Medicine under Hong Kong College of Physicians. Dr Kwok contributes to the development of palliative care in Hong Kong and Asia Pacific region through participation in various professional organizations. She currently serves as vice-chairperson of Hong Kong Society of Palliative Medicine, secretary of Asia Pacific Hospice Palliative Care Network and council member of Hong Kong Pain Society. She is also the co-chairperson of Coordinating Committee (Palliative Care) in Hospital Authority in Hong Kong and Program Director of Palliative Medicine Subcommittee under Hong Kong College of Physicians. She is actively involved in teaching of palliative medicine to medical students, doctors, nurses and allied health professionals. She is the Honorary Clinical Associate Professor of Department of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Dr Kwok is also actively involved in promoting advance care planning, she is a member of workgroup on Advance Care Planning Guidelines in Hospital Authority in Hong Kong and one of the Hong Kong representatives of Asian Delphi on Advance Care Planning Taskforce under Asia Pacific Hospice Palliative Care Network. She has been frequently invited as a speaker in local and international conference in palliative care for advanced cancer, end stage renal failure and motor neuron disease.
	Dr Stephen R. CONNOR, MD, is Executive Director of the UK charity, Worldwide Hospice Palliative Care Alliance (WHPCA), a global alliance of over 320 national and regional hospice and palliative care organizations in 100 countries in official relations with WHO & ECOSOC. WHPCA, advocates, communicates, and helps develop palliative care worldwide with a focus on low and middle income countries. He has worked in palliative care continuously for the past 42 years as a researcher, licensed health psychologist, consultant, author, educator, advocate, & executive. During his career he has served as chief executive of four US hospices, international palliative care consultant for the Open Society Foundation, and for eleven years (1998-2009) was vice president for research and development at the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (US). He has served as a steering group member for the WHO Technical Advisory Groupon Comprehensive Cervical Cancer Control (2010-13) and the WHO Ad Hoc Technical Advisory Group on Palliative and Long Term Care. For the last 18 years Dr Connor has worked on global palliative care development in over 25 countries in Eastern Europe, sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia. He is a trustee of the International Children’s Palliative Care Network, on the scientific advisory board of the (US) National Palliative Care Research Center, a board member of the Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Foundation, and is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Pain & Symptom Management. He has published over 125 peer reviewed journal articles, reviews, and book chapters on issues related to palliative care for patients and their families and is the author of Hospice: Practice, Pitfalls, and Promise (1998), Hospice and Palliative Care: The Essential Guide (2009 & 2017) and co-editor of the WHPCA/WHO Global Atlas of Palliative Care at the End-of-Life (2014) and Building Integrated Palliative Care Programs and Services (2017).
	Dr Amy Y. M. CHOW, PhD, RSW, FT, is an Associate Professor with the Department of Social Work and Social Administration and Honorary Associate Professor with the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong. She is the Director of the Jockey Club End-of-Life Community Care Project and Associate Director of Sau Po Centre of Ageing of the University. With the background of registered social worker specialized in bereavement counseling, she is the founder of the first community based bereavement counseling centre in Hong Kong. She is the first Fellow in Thanatology awarded by the Association of Death Education and Counseling in Asia. She was elected as the Chairperson of the prestigious International Workgroup on Death, Dying and Bereavement, the Secretary of the Association for Death Education and Counseling as well as the Board Member Asia Pacific Hospice Network in 2016. She also serves the Body of Knowledge Committee and Grief Counseling Standards Task Force of Association of Death Education and Counseling. Her achievement in bereavement research is well recognized locally and internationally. She received the Association for Death Education and Counseling 2005 Cross-Cultural Award, Cadenza Fellow in 2008, Distinguished Alumni Award 2013 of Department of Social Work, CUHK, 2013 Rainbow of Life Outstanding Individual Award, 2014 Outstanding Social Worker Award, 2014 Outstanding Teaching Award and 2017-2018 Outstanding Research Output Award of the University of Hong Kong.
	Dr Meera AGAR is Professor of Palliative Medicine, IMPACCT (Improving palliative, aged and chronic care through clinical research and translation) University of Technology Sydney. She is a practicing Palliative Medicine Specialist in South West Sydney in a large university teaching hospital. Her interest is in supportive care for people experiencing brain impacts of advanced illness, including delirium, dementia and brain tumours; and she has conducted several clinical trials in this area. She is the President of the Australian New Zealand Society of Palliative Medicine, and member of the management committee of the Australasian Delirium Association.
	Dr Sayaka TAKENOUCHI, RN, PhD, MPH, is a Program-Specific Senior Lecturer at Kyoto University Hospital Department of Ethics Support. She is a nurse educator and researcher with expertise in the nursing ethics and end-of-life care. After acquiring nursing licenses of both Japan and the United States, she gained experience as a hospice/palliative nurse in the United States and was determined to bring back the End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) to her country. Supported by strong project team members, she has devoted herself to translating the ELNEC-Core, Geriatric, Critical Care and Pediatric Palliative Care curricula and educating Japanese nurses since 2004. It has been her passion to empower nurses to be patient advocates through patient-centered approach, framed by assessing and honoring patient’s needs, values, and preferences.
	Prof Mitsunori MIYASHITA, RN, PhD, specialised in Palliative Nursing. He is currently a Professor at the Department of Palliative Nursing, Health Sciences in Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan.
	Prof Carin Van Der RIJT, MD, is working as a medical oncologist in the Erasmus MC Cancer Institute in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. In 2010 she was appointed as a professor in palliative oncology. In her daily clinical work and research she aims to support patients with advanced cancer and various disease- and treatment related symptoms thereby using an integrated multidisciplinary approach. In her research she is especially working on the symptoms, pain and fatigue. During the last two years she chaired the committee that revised the multidisciplinary Dutch guideline on fatigue for patients with advanced cancer. The guideline aims to support care givers with the appropriate screening, diagnosis and management of fatigue in patients with cancer during the palliative phase of the disease. The guideline belongs to one of the most frequently used guidelines on symptom control in the Netherlands. Since 2017, Carin van der Rijt is also the chairperson of Palliactief, the Dutch multidisciplinary organisation for professionals working in palliative care and as such the Dutch member association of the European Association for Palliative Care.
	Prof Carmen W.H. CHAN Yip, RN, PhD, FAAN, has demonstrated integrated scholarship in cancer and palliative care research which has broadly impacted on the profession, patients, families, community, and nursing education. Her main fields of research specialisation include symptom management, psychosocial care, sexuality, advance care planning, and cancer screening. As 'symptom cluster' has been acknowledged to be at the cutting edge of science in symptom management, Professor Chan’s early PhD work on the identification and management of 'symptom cluster' in patients with cancer was novel and contributed to the international development of nursing knowledge. It also laid a foundation for her subsequent studies on symptom management including the treatment of oral mucositis, breathlessness, fatigue, nausea and vomiting, pain, anxiety and sexual dysfunction. Professor Chan's palliative care research focuses on the promotion of advance care planning and advance directives, and targets on cancer patients, paediatric patients, older adults and the general public. Her research initiatives on this area have demonstrated excellence in design and innovation, and a great impact on the health care profession and the society. Professor Chan and her team conducted several community roadshows and surveys to promote advance care planning and advance directives in Hong Kong. Subsequently, they developed and published a Chinese health manual for advance care planning, which has been widely distributed to the public via community roadshows and to elderly centres and hospitals. In 2016-18, Professor Chan launched another GRF project to carry out a large-scale population survey on the acceptance and completion of advance directive among the general public in Hong Kong.
	Dr Ruth CHUA, MD, is an Associate Consultant in the department of Palliative Medicine, Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, Singapore. She received her basic medical degree from Trinity College, Dublin (Ireland) and subsequently completed both her Family Medicine Residency and her Advanced Specialist Training in Palliative Medicine in Singapore. She has a keen interest in medical education and improving community education and support for lay caregivers. In addition to the training of medical undergraduates, she is also involved in several post-graduate training programmes such as the NUS Graduate Diploma in Palliative Medicine and the LCPC-SHC Postgraduate Course in Palliative Medicine. In her free time, she enjoys both indoor and outdoor rock climbing.
	Dr Sushma BHATNAGAR, MD (Anaesthesiology), MSc (Palliative Medicine, Cardiff University), is Professor & Head of Onco-Anaesthesia, Pain & Palliative Medicine at IRCH, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. She is also President of the Indian Association of Palliative Care and Chief Editor of the Indian Journal of Palliative Care.
	Dr Komal TEWANI, MD, has done her Basic Specialist Training in Family medicine in 2009 and her Advance Specialist training in Palliative Medicine in 2014 from National University of Singapore. She has done a fellowship in Marie Curie Palliative care institute in Liverpool, UK where she was part of the Palliative team looking after adult patients in Royal Liverpool University Hospital and Marie Curie Hospice. She was also attached to Alder hey Children’s Hospital where she was part of the specialist palliative team looking after palliative needs in children. She currently works as a Palliative Consultant in KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital (KKH), Singapore. Her role is to provide Palliative care with her team to women diagnosed with gynecological malignancies. She has initiated and leads the Perinatal Palliative service in KKH since Jan 2017. Her research interests are in End of life care, Quality of life and its various domains and bereavement care.
	Prof Mieko OGINO, MD, PhD, MMA is board certified neurologist and board certified home care physician. She graduated from Kitasato University 1985 and after her residency decided to be a neurologist. Her research focus was neuroimmunology, covering conditions like Guillain-Barre syndrome and HIV. She has been a post-doctoral research fellow at Colombia University in the US for 4 years and had her PhD degree awarded from Kitasato University. After returning to Japan, she focused her practice on patients with ALS and developed significant experience in the end of life care of ALS patients. In Japan in 2005, opioids were used only for cancer patients, and national health insurance did not cover opioids for ALS patients. She endeavored to change that rule and finally succeed 2011. She also has a deep concern about palliative care for non-cancer patients because of her insight into the situation of the aged society of Japan; which she developed through her studies towards a Masters of Medical Administration, awarded from Tokyo Medical and Dental University in 2008. She also finished the course of the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Law (CBEL) in Tokyo University 2005 and became a specialist of clinical ethics. She is an opinion leader regarding palliative care for non-cancer patients, especially neurological diseases. She is a director of various academic societies and also a member of several national associations.
	Dr Tamura KEIKO, RN, PhD, OCNS, is Professor of Palliative Nursing/Gerontological Nursing at the Department of Human Health Sciences in Graduate School of Medicine Kyoto University, Japan. She is Certified Nurse Specialist Cancer Nursing.
	Dr Naveen SALINS, MD, is the Professor and Head in the Department of Palliative Medicine at the Kasturba Medical College, Manipal. He is also the Editor of the Indian Journal of Palliative Care, Director of the EPEC India program of the North-western University United States and Honorary Tutor of the School of Medicine, Cardiff University UK. Dr Salins is the mentor of the CTC-RMI program of the Government of India for implementing the provisions of amended NDPS act. He was instrumental in creating the curriculum for MD Palliative Medicine and is the member of the executive group of the Medical Council of India. His area of interest in palliative care is end of life care, and he played a pivotal role in drawing up the position statement and policy guidelines on end of life care for India. He is one of the national lead from India for disseminating the integrated care plan for the dying by collaborating with the International Collaborative for the Best Care of the Dying, University of Liverpool. He played a significant role in the ICRMR, ELICIT, IAPC initiative towards creating the standard definitions and terms for the end of life care. He completed his Internal Medicine training with honours from the Manipal University and accomplished his Diploma and Fellowship in Palliative Care from Adelaide, Australia. He has held many clinical positions in Palliative Care in prestigious institutions such as The Royal Adelaide Hospital, Kasturba Medical College Manipal, HCG Bangalore Institute of Oncology and Tata Memorial Hospital. He is currently pursuing his PhD in Palliative Care from the Lancaster University UK.
	Dr Ryuichi SEKINE, MD, graduated from Shiga University of Medical Science in 1997. After several years of internship and transitional residency in Japan, he started internal medicine residency at Beth Israel Medical Center, New York City, U.S. in 2001. After a completion of internal medicine residency, he pursued in pain management and palliative care fellowship at Beth Israel, NY, under the chairmanship of Dr. Russell K. Portenoy, the ex-president of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM). Dr Sekine continued his palliative care fellowship at Bronx VA Medical Center, NY, then finalized his pain and palliative care fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, NY in December 2006. Then he joined at Kameda Medical Center, (KMC), Kamogawa City, Chiba, Japan and has been serving as head of pain and palliative care department since February 2007. Taking advantage of his US training experience, from the outset of KMC’s palliative care consultation in 2007, he has been accepting all patients regardless of their diseases suffering from difficult pains and other distresses that cannot be managed by the primary providers. He is currently the editor-in-chief of Palliative Care Research, the designated journal of JSPM as well as a member of JSPM’s subspecialty development committee.
	Dr Manjiri Pushpak DIGHE, MD Pediatrics, University of Mumbai, India and MSc in Palliative Medicine Cardiff University, UK, is currently employed as the Medical director of the Cipla Palliative Care and training center in Pune, Maharashtra. She was the lead Consultant, at Bayt Abdullah Children’s Hospice, Kuwait. Bayt Abdullah is the first dedicated Pediatric Hospice in the Middle East. She was involved in developing clinical services to meet the needs of children with life limiting diseases and their families, across Kuwait. She was responsible for managing the medical team and in liaising with all members of the mutli-disciplinary team in order to provide the highest standard of care for patients and families through the course of their illness, end of life and through bereavement. She coordinated annual Medical Students’ Days at BACCH for Medical students from the School of Medicine, Kuwait; working in partnership with the Department of Pediatrics. Dr Dighe also coordinated two Workshops on Interdisciplinary Pediatric Palliative Care, in partnership with the Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine. She had worked for over 5 years in Palliative Medicine at Tata Memorial Centre, India, a National center of excellence in cancer and a European Society of Medical Oncology designated centre of excellence for Integrated Oncology and Palliative Care. At Tata Memorial Centre, she was involved in education and curriculum development in Palliative Medicine for a range of professionals from undergraduate medical and nursing students to volunteers. She was recognized as a Post graduate medical teacher for Palliative Medicine doctoral programme by the Homi Bhabha National Institute which is affiliated to the Medical Council of India. Dr Dighe had been involved in several research projects, including my own Masters Research project. She has published about ten articles or chapters related to Palliative care and has presented papers at National and International conferences. Dr Dighe is a Faculty member of the Indian Association for Palliative Care and has lectured at several academic programs for medical and nursing students conducted by the organization.
	Dr Yasuhiko MIURA, MD, PhD, is the Associate Professor of the Department of General Medicine at Jikei University School of Medicine. He graduated at Jikei University School of Medicine. His specialties are in Nephrology, Medical Ethics, Palliative Care and Internal Medicine.
	Prof Cosmas Rinaldi A. LESMANA, MD, PhD, FACP, FACG, FINASIM, is a Senior Lecturer and Consultant in the Department of Internal Medicine, Hepatobiliary Division, Dr. Cipto Mangunkusumo National General Hospital, Universitas Indonesia in Jakarta. Dr Lesmana also serves as the Research Coordinator Staff for the department. He also works at Digestive Disease & GI Oncology Center (DDOC), Medistra Hospital, Jakarta as a senior consultant and interventional endoscopist. He carried out his medical and postgraduate training in Internal Medicine and also in Gastroenterology/Hepatology at Diponegoro University, Semarang and Department of Internal Medicine, Dr. Cipto Mangunkusumo National General Hospital, Universitas Indonesia, Jakarta. He also underwent several additional short courses training in basic and advance endoscopy in Asian Institute of Gastroenterology, Hyderabad, India, and Hepatology in Hopital Haut Leveaque, Bordeaux, France, and Victorian Infectious Disease Reference Laboratory, Melbourne, Australia. In 2011, he further continued for portal hypertension training at Institute of Liver & Biliary Sciences, New Delhi, India. In 2015, he underwent endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) training at Baldota Institute of Digestive Science, Global Hospital, Mumbai, India. He has won several awards for his research, including being named 4th in the APASL Young Investigator Award in 2005, and 3rd in APASL 2010, the AASLD-APASL Award in 2008, Travel Grant Award from Society Gastrointestinal Intervention (SGI) Korea in 2010, as well as two times awards in AASLD (2012 and 2018). One of his research has been selected for presentation during Digestive Disease Week (DDW) meeting, 2017 in USA. Dr Lesmana is a member of several professional associations, including Past Executive Council Member of the Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver (APASL), Fellow of American College of Physicians (FACP), Direct Fellow of American College of Gastroenterology (FACG) and Fellow of Indonesian Association of Internal Medicine (FINASIM). Currently, he is a member of Asian Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS) Group (AEG). He has become an international EUS workshop instructor during the AEG congress. He also has published many papers in peer-reviewed international journals and his interests include hepatitis virus, liver cirrhosis, liver fibrosis, hepatocellular carcinoma, pancreato-biliary diseases, and endoscopy.
	Dr Wiwiek Indriyani MASKOEP, MD, SpPD, FINASIM, is currently the medical staff of Palliative Care and Pain Free Development Centre Dr Soetomo General Hospital – Medical Faculty of Airlangga University Surabaya. She graduated from the School of Medicine, Brawijaya University Malang as a General Practitioner in 1983, and graduated from the School of Medicine, Universitas Airlangga as an Internist in 1998.
	Assoc Prof Srivieng PAIROJKUL, MD, specialised in pediatric pulmonologist and allergist, but has changed her career practice to palliative care for nearly 10 years. She is now head of Karunruk Palliative Care Center, an excellent center which provides palliative care service to all patients in Srinagarind Hospital, a largest referral center in the Northeast of Thailand. Karunruk is also the first training center for palliative care in Thailand. Her expertise is also in helping children in disaster situations. She organized and facilitated many workshops on “Helping Children in Disasters” in many countries around the world after many major disasters such as Pakistan, Ethiopia, Haiti, Myanmar, the Philippines.
	Dr Kemala Rita WAHIDI, SKp, SpKepOnk, ETN, MARS, is currently the Nursing Management Lecturer Coordinator at Magister of Hospital Administration Program Study, Esa Unggul University. She is also the President of Indonesia Oncology Nurses Association (IONA) and Head of Services Department, Jakarta Palliative Society.

Rosalie Shaw Travel Scholarship and APHN Bursaries

Rosalie Shaw Travel Scholarship

This scholarship was created in honour of our first Executive Director, Dr Rosalie Shaw, to enable APHN members from resource limited countries to attend the Asia Pacific Hospice Conference. The successful applicant will receive support of up to USD 2,000 to fund the conference registration, travel and accommodation.

Applications will be processed through a centralised portal. The selection committee of APHN will shortlist one awardee for the scholarship and 20 awardees for the bursaries. All applicants will be considered for BOTH the Rosalie Shaw Travel Scholarship (RSTS) and APHN bursary.

Eligibility Criteria

Must be a current individual member of APHN
Nomination supported by 2 other APHN members
Display leadership qualities and works in a palliative care service
Contribution to palliative care development in your country of work or residence
Must submit an abstract for the APHC
Must submit a report on the benefits of attendance within 3 months after attending APHC
Has not received any grants from APHN for the past 5 years

Preference will be given to members who have not received sponsorship of any kind for attending regional and international palliative care conferences.

APHN Bursary

What is being offered

20 bursaries are available
The amount of each bursary is SGD500
Priority will be given to participants from low/middle income countries, nurses and Allied Health workers, as well as persons who are unable to obtain other sponsorship

Eligibility Criteria

Must be a current individual member of APHN
Nomination supported by 2 other APHN members
Must submit a report on the benefits of attendance within 3 months after attending APHC
Has not received any grants from APHN for the past 5 years
Preference will be given to members who have not received sponsorship of any kind for attending regional and international palliative care conferences.

Applications have now CLOSED, thank you for submitting your applications.

Acknowledgement page

THANK YOU

Please note that this is a thank you page to thank APHN representatives for helping out in the various committees. For the complete list of committees and members, please refer to the conference website.

Chief Liaison: Dr Ramaswamy Akhileswaran
Finance Committee: Mr Fan Kwan
Co-Chair, Scientific Committee: Professor Yoshiyuki Kizawa
Members, Scientific Committee: Dr Masanori Mori, Dr Naveen Salins
Members, Abstract Review Committee:

A/Prof Ghauri Aggarwal	Australia
Ms Jan Philips	Australia
Prof Patsy Yates	Australia
Dr Jane Fischer	Australia
Prof Magaret O Connor	Australia
Dr Odette Spruyt	Australia
Dr Anil Tandon	Australia
Prof Jane Philips	Australia
Dr Dipti Mittal	Australia
Dr Rico Liu	Hong Kong
Dr Inda Soong	Hong Kong
Dr Lam Wai Man	Hong Kong
A/Prof Amy Chow	Hong Kong
Dr Annie Kwok	Hong Kong
Prof Sushma Bhatnagar	India
Prof Hyun Sook Kim	Korea
Prof Kwon So Hi	Korea
Mrs Liese Groot-Alberts	New Zealand
Dr Sue Marsden	New Zealand
Dr Ross Drake	New Zealand
Dr Ong Wah Ying	Singapore
A/Prof Edward Poon	Singapore
Dr Gilbert Fan	Singapore
Dr Neo Han Yee	Singapore
A/Prof Lalit Krishna	Singapore
Dr Chong Poh Heng	Singapore
Dr Noreen Chan	Singapore
Dr Jun Hua Lee	Taiwan
Dr Chun Kai Fang	Taiwan
Prof Srivieng Pairojkul	Thailand
Dr Tatsuya Morita	Japan
Prof Tatsuo Akechi	Japan
Dr Jun Hamano	Japan
Dr Ai Oishi	Japan
Dr Masanori Mori	Japan
Asst Prof Sayaka Takenouchi	Japan
Dr Nobuyuki Yotani	Japan
Dr Ryuichi Sekine	Japan
Dr Isseki Maeda	Japan
Dr Yoshihisa Matsumoto	Japan
Dr Keiko Tanaka	Japan
Dr Takashi Yamaguchi	Japan
Dr Iwao Osaka	Japan
Dr Akira Inoue	Japan
Dr Harue Arao	Japan
Ms Megumi Kishino	Japan
Prof Yoshiyuki Kizawa	Japan

Oral Presentation Outcome

Please refer to the list below for the outcome (in no particular order) of the oral presentation selection:

	ORAL PRESENTATION
	Submitting Author Name	Abstract Number	Abstract Title	Timing
1	Lin, Chia Hui	AB19010069	To Give or Not to Give? The Ethical Dilemma of Nursing Personnel in Care for Patients with Terminal Pancreatic Cancer: Between Pain Relief and Addiction	11.30 – 11.45
2	Eric Finkelstein	AB19020103	Heart failure patients’ stated preference for aggressive end-of-life care: Does it change over time?	11.45 – 12.00
3	Sri Setiyarini	AB19020097	Self-selected Individual Music Therapy to Enhance Quality of life in Palliative Cancer Patients	12.00 – 12.15
4	Chutchanun Ruangkhajit	AB19010082	Development of Palliative Care Model in Home Ward, Bangkok	12.15 - 12.30
5	Chuang, Pei Ni	AB19020129	Artificial hydration for the terminally ill cancer patients: A multicenter, prospective cohort study	13.30 – 13.45
6	Ling-Yu, Tsai	AB19010092	The effects of team-based learning on nurses’ cognitive performance in hospice care related laws in Taiwan	13.45 – 14.00
7	Dr Nelfidayani	AB19030196	Caregiver Empowerment with a Smartphone-Based Application for Geriatrics Pain Screening and Activity of Daily Living Scale	14.30 – 14.45
8	Martina Sinta, Kristanti	AB19030209	The Problems and Needs in Palliative Care Caregiver questionnaire: cross-cultural adaptation for an Asian setting by a mixed method approach	14.45 – 15.00
9	Andy Hau Yan, Ho	AB19040211	Family Dignity Intervention (FDI) for advancing Holistic Care in Asia Palliative Care: Preliminary Findings from a Randomized Controlled Trial	15.00 – 15.15
10	Yu Hsiu-Hong	AB19010086	The Utilization of Lecture and E-learning on The Promotion of Hospice Concept to the Hospital Staff	16.30 – 16.45
11	Chamath Fernando	AB19010096	Dimensions, correlates, management and perceptions related to pain among resident adult oncology patients – a Sri Lankan study	16.45 – 17.00
12	Takaomi, Kessoku	AB19010060	Exploratory prospective observational study to examine the quality of life of patients who have been treated with opioid-induced constipation by using each constipation-treated drug	17.00 – 17.15

Note*:

If your name is not on the list, you will participate in the normal poster presentation.
Participants will be contacted should there be any changes to the selection.

About the Conference

The biennial Asia Pacific Hospice Conferences of the Asia Pacific Hospice Palliative Care Network (APHN) were inaugurated in 1989 with the dual aims of enhancing our knowledge in hospice palliative care and for networking within the region.

This conference is the focal point which brings together workers, supporters and friends of hospice and palliative care in the Asia Pacific every two years.

It is the place where news is shared, new knowledge disseminated, new developments celebrated, new friendships made and old friendships renewed.