2016; Volume 17, No 8, August
Message from the Chair and Executive Director
Dear readers,
This month we are taking most of the time off for vacation so our message is brief. We will be working very hard and enjoying the time attending the 5th International African Palliative Care Conference hosted by the African Palliative Care Association and the Worldwide Hospice Palliative Care Alliance in Kampala, Uganda.
IAHPC has provided more than $25,000 in traveling grants to enable 14 participants to attend the conference. All the grantees have approved posters in the conference – we announced their names in previous edition, but here they are again:
| First Name | Last Name | Specialty | Current position / title | City | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anita Esenam | Agbeko | Surgery | Palliative Care Team Member | Kumasi | Ghana |
| Anthelme Kouessi | Agdodande | Internal Medicine | Palliative Care services | Cotonour | Benin |
| Mildred Ndamukaneyi | Bosha | Social Work | Social Worker | Harare | Zimbabwe |
| Clint | Cupido | Internal Medicine and Palliative Care | Senior Consultant and Director Abundant Life PC | Cape Town | South Africa |
| Nahla | Gafer | Clinical Oncologist | Head Palliative Care Unit | Khartoum | Sudan |
| Eunice | Garanganga | Palliative Care Nurse Adviser | Director | Harare | Zimbabwe |
| Faraja | Kiwanga | Oncology (Master of Medicine | Senior Medical Officer / Resident in radiation therapy | Dar es Salaam | Tanzania |
| Valarie | Maasdorp | Palliative and Bereavement Care Clinical Social Worker | Head of Clinical Services | Harare | Zimbabwe |
| Penelope | Mathe | Social Worker | Social Worker | Johannesburg | South Africa |
| Elvis Joseph | Miti | Palliative Medicine | Project Coordinator | Mitwara | Tanzania |
| David | Musyoki | Nursing | Senor Program Officer | Nairobi | Kenya |
| Durojaiye A. | Omowumi | Clinical Palliative Care Nurse / Lecture | Lecturer | Ilorin | Nigeria |
| Eunice | Omoyeni | Palliative Care / Medicine | Senior Medical Officer | Ibadan | Nigeria |
| Michael | Owusu-Ansah | Family Medicine / Palliative Care | Specialist | Kumasi | Ghana |
Congratulations to the grantees! We look forward to seeing them in Kampala and to reading their reports after their returns.
As in previous congresses, we will have a booth at the exhibition area. Please stop by and say hello! We look forward to sharing experiences and networking with our friends and colleagues from the Region and meeting new ones who are entering the field. Take this opportunity to renew your membership with IAHPC or join the organization!
Remember that we have enabled our system so that the members’ list in the IAHPC website section will also be displaying a head shot (face picture) of our individual members and the logos of our institutional members. This is an optional feature. To upload your photo or your institution’s logo click here.
Until next month,
Lukas Radbruch, MD
Chair
Liliana De Lima, MHA
Executive Director