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