The theme for the 40th conference "Cancer Care Coming of Age” will highlight geriatric oncology – an emerging area of interest especially for COSA members.
The disease theme will concentrate on gastro-intestinal cancers and will encompass gastric, oesophagus and hepatobiliary tumours which are often neglected at major meetings.
The program will cover the broad range of multidisciplinary sessions the COSA membership has come to appreciate at the ASM.
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With five incredible keynote speakers, three days of bereavement-specific research and discussion, and a variety of social networking events, the Australian Grief and Bereavement Conference 2014 is the professional development event to go to.
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Topics to be covered include:
- Issues in opioid use
- Genetics and epigenetics of pain
- The challenges of clinical trials for pain management
- Palliative care
- Orofacial pain
- Rural practice
- Arthritis
- Endogenous pain processing
- The patient-partner
The theme of this conference is "Palliative medicine: past, present and future". The theme represents 2014 being the 20th year of conferencing for ANZSPM and there will be a strong focus of history throughout the conference (where we have come from, where we are now and where we may soon be heading to in evidence based modern Palliative Medicine).
It will also address many specific topics via plenary sessions and a diverse range of workshops. We plan on daily sessions of “rapid-fire poster presentations” as well to allow everyone to become aware of the research happening across Australia and New Zealand and give researchers a chance to clearly explain their topics in a very brief summarised time before plenary sessions.
We have two excellent international speakers; Dr Paul Glare from the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York and Dr Mike Bennett from Leeds End-of-Life Observatory in the UK. They will cover topics such as current management of neuropathic pain, practical and effective pain assessment and management in a Palliative Care population across settings, current research on the benefits of early intervention Palliative Medicine. In addition we have an excellent caliber of national speakers who bring new insights and knowledge to such topics as the physiology of pain, psychological interventions for managing symptoms in Palliative Care, interventional pain management and effective collaboration today, addiction medicine and palliative medicine - how do we share and learn from each other?
There will be workshops on "Neuropathic Pain", “Dignity Therapy” and "Addiction Medicine" to name a few, which will be of interest to many. An ANZSPM/AChPM Trainee Day, with an exciting program, will precede the main conference.
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The 15th World Congress of Psycho-Oncology and Psychosocial Academy will bring together professionals in diverse fields from around the globe who dialogue about improving cancer care on an international level and developing strategies to add psychosocial issues to all aspects of cancer control. The attendees include, but are not limited to, physicians, social workers, nurses, psychologists, rehabilitation specialists, epidemiologists, social scientists and educators.
Find out more »Topic: "Forgiveness and End of Life Care". Presented by Jenny Richards, Palliative Care Social Worker Ensuring that rural social workers also have access to networking and professional development opportunities is important to OSWA SA. Our goal is to reach out to rural social workers who work with cancer patients and we welcome contact from rural social workers and ideas about how OSWA can best support them. We are always looking for committee members to plan and facilitate our professional development…
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Find out more »Topic: "Centrelink - implications for oncology social workers." Presented by Annie White, Program Manager, Stakeholder and Community Engagement. (It will be 2 weeks after the Federal Budget so also provides an opportunity to find out about potential budget implications for people impacted by cancer.) Time: 8.30-10.00 am (with morning tea and networking until 10.30am) Ensuring that rural social workers also have access to networking and professional development opportunities is important to OSWA SA. Our goal is to reach…
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