Zaragoza, September 25, 2025 The WeCare Chair (UIC Barcelona) was represented at the meeting by its directors, Cristina Monforte and Joaquim Julià, together with Iris Crespo. Universities and leading palliative care centers across Spain have agreed to establish the Network of Palliative Care Chairs and Research Centers, an academic alliance designed to strengthen research, education, and institutional collaboration for high‑quality…
Last Friday and Saturday, September 26 and 27, the WeCare Chair actively participated in the 15th International Conference of the Spanish Society of Palliative Care (SECPAL), held in Zaragoza. The event, jointly organized with the Aragonese Society of Palliative Care (CUSIRAR), brought together nearly 700 professionals from across Spain under the theme “The interdisciplinary team: cornerstone of palliative care”. Among the sessions, we…
WeCare directors, Cristina Monforte and Joaquim Julià, took part in the 5th Congress of the Uruguayan Society of Palliative Care, held from May 22 to 24. Monforte and Julià were invited speakers in a roundtable discussion on the Desire to Hasten Death (DHD), where they spoke about the contextualization, definition, and epidemiology of DHD, and…
On Tuesday 23rd July Claudia Rossy defended her doctoral thesis entitled ‘The Implications of Forgiveness in the End-of-Life Context from Three Perspectives: Literature, Palliative Care Patients and Spiritual Caregivers’, obtaining a grade of ‘Excellent Cum Laude’. It was directed by Dr. Iris Crespo Martín and Dr. Maria Fernández Capo. The tribunal was composed of Dr…
Mireia, also lecturer of the Department of Medicine, has won first prize in the “Present your thesis in 4 minutes” competition organised by the Catalan Foundation for Research and Innovation (FCRi). The final was held on 27 June at the Caixaforum in Tarragona and it can be seen again in the following video, starting at…
On Thursday, May 30, the Aula Magna of the Barcelona Campus hosted the presentation of the latest book by the Mallorcan oncologist Enric Benito, invited by the University’s WeCare Chair. As Dr. Joaquim Julià, co-director of the Chair, emphasized in his words of welcome: “It is an honor to have a world reference in palliative…
The 13th World Congress on Palliative Care Research of the European Palliative Care Society (EAPC) took place in Barcelona from May 16-18. The congress brought together more than 1,000 participants from 63 countries to discuss the future of palliative care research. Topics such as the application of artificial intelligence in Palliative Care, strategies for incorporating…
Mireia Baylina, PhD student of the WeCare Chair, won the contest “Present your thesis in 4 minutes” during the Research Fest held at the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya with her thesis “Plan ahead to care with dignity”. Mireia will represent UIC Barcelona in the final of the contest organized by the Fundació Catalana per a…
On May 3, the 2nd Palliative Care Conference of La Rioja was held at the San Pedro University Hospital in Logroño. The conference is the meeting point for Palliative Care in the community of La Rioja and was inaugurated by the Regional Minister of Health of the autonomous government, María Martín. The co-director of the…
On May 30 at 6:00 pm in the Aula Magna of UIC Barcelona, Dr. Enric Benito will be presenting his fascinating work “El niño que se enfadó con la muerte”. In this exciting event, the author will take us on a journey through the pages of his book, exploring deep and poignant themes. To guarantee…