ESMO Palliative Care Working Group

The Palliative Care Working Group (PCWG) works in the field of organisation, policy, research, education and the development of oncology incentive programmes with the goal of fully integrating supportive and palliative care into medical oncology practice at existing healthcare facilities.

Activities and Responsibilities

  • Defining minimum standards for the provision of supportive and palliative care by cancer centres
  • Improving the level of involvement and expertise of oncologists in the delivery of supportive and palliative care to patients
  • Promoting palliative care issues and initiatives worldwide

Structure

  • Membership is open to Full and Junior ESMO members with particular interest in palliative care

See the major achievements of the Palliative Care Working Group here

Chair

  • Nathan Cherny, Israel

Committee Members

  • Raphael Catane, Israel    
  • Martin R. Chasen, Canada    
  • Alexandru-Calin Grigorescu, Romania   
  • Azza Adel Hassan, Quatar   
  • Marianne Kloke, Germany    
  • Ian Olver, Australia    
  • Ozgur Ozyilkan, Turkey    
  • Gudrun Marie Ilse Pohl, Austria    
  • Carla Ripamonti, Italy    
  • Maryna Rubach, Poland    
  • Tamari Rukhadze, Georgia    
  • Dirk Schrijvers, Belgium    
  • Anna-Marie Stevens, United Kingdom    
  • Florian Strasser, Switzerland    
  • Maria Wagnerova, Slovakia  
  • Vittorina Zagonel, Italy