Video 6.º Workshop de la Cátedra WeCare The workshop addressed the latest developments in this area. It also featured nationally and internationally renowned expert speakers from the field of palliative care, as well as discussion sessions aimed at encouraging the exchange of ideas, opinions and experiences between attendees and speakers. The subject matter was approached…
The main topic of this year’s edition was communication with terminally ill patients. Fourth-year students from the Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing organise the fifth edition of the Interdisciplinary Approach to the Elderly Seminar. On Monday 5 November, the Sant Cugat Campus hosted the fifth Interdisciplinary Approach to the Elderly Seminar, a conference organised and led…
On May 17th, 2018, the WeCare Chair: End of Life Care awarded prizes as part of the 1st edition of the “WeCare Festival: Living to the End”, in an event that took place at the CaixaForum in Barcelona. The event consisted of a round table, the viewing of the finalist videos and photographs, as well…
Since November, Dr Iris Crespo has been on a postdoctoral research stay at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), having received a José Castillejo Mobility Grant from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport. Dr Crespo conducts research at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center thanks to a mobility grant from the Ministry. Crespo…
Vídeo “5th International WeCare Workshop” For the 5th year in a row, WeCare Chair: End of Life Care has organised an international workshop. This year, the workshop took place under the title “Sufrimiento: hablar de aquello de lo que cuesta hablar”. The programme was based on clinical cases acted out live and interventions from expert…
The WeCare Chair organises a seminar entitled “Existential issues and meaning in life in palliative care”, led by Dr Martin Fegg. On 29 June, the Auditorium on the Sant Cugat Campus hosted the seminar “Existential issues and meaning in life in palliative care”, led by Dr Martin Fegg, clinical psychologist and lecturer in the Department…
Objective: To provide the knowledge necessary to foster collaboration between haematology and palliative care professionals, through a dynamic methodology based on the discussion of clinical cases from a multidisciplinary viewpoint. Venue: Catalan Cancer Institute Coordinators Dr David Gallardo, head of the Clinical Haematology and Haematherapy Service at ICO-Girona, and Dr Josep Porta, head of the…
Silvia Fernández, social educator and counsellor specialising in art therapy and WeCare Chair collaborator, recently took part in TEDxYouth@PaseodelPrado. Her talk on hidden stories in palliative care was entitled “Death through art” and was presented in Madrid on 25 March 2017. “Death through art” video