ESMO Palliative Care Fellowship Reports
2012-2013 Fellowships
One month observership in HRH Center for Palliative Medicine
To include a rotation through the following palliative care areas: inpatient rounds, inpatient consults, outpatient consults, hospice home care and palliative radiation therapy
Fellow: Nicola Nasser
Home Institute: Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Campus, Petach Tikva, Israel
Host Institute: Cleveland Clinic, Harry R. Horvitz Center
Sponsor: Weleda
Development of a clinical model for integrating palliative care into standard oncological care for newly diagnosed lung cancer patients in North India
With special considerations for locally prevalent resource constraints and phenotypic disease profile at presentation
Fellow: Navneet Singh
Home Institute: Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
Host Institute: Kantonsspital St. Gallen, St Gallen, Switzerland
Sponsor: Weleda
Development of a new treatment protocol for malignant bowel obstruction
Fellow: Maria Vieto Villar
Home Institute: Complejo Hospitalario Universitario, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Host Institute: Hospital Da Luz, Lisboa, Portugal
Sponsor: Weleda
2011-2012 Fellowships and Reports
Functional assessment and symptom control in palliative treatment of elderly cancer patients
Fellow: Nazar Lukavetskyy
Home Institute: Oncology Department, Lviv Medical University, Lviv, Ukraine
Host Institute: University Hospital Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
Sponsor: Cephalon
Availability and characteristics of caregivers of cancer patients
Comparison between high and lower income setting
Fellow: Raafat Adel Malek
Home Institute: Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt
Host Institute: Chelsea and Westminster, London, United Kingdom
Sponsor: Weleda
Preparation of English and Georgian version of Palliative Care Outcome Scale
Conducting interviews at CPC Palliative Care Unit in Georgia and the analysis of results from both the Host and Home institutes
Fellow: Giorgi Metivishvili
Home Institute: Cancer Prevention Center, Tbilisi, Georgia
Host Institute: Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel
Sponsor: Cephalon
Observational study on evaluation of quality of life and end of life care (EOL) of outpatients attended in home nursing.
Fellow: Silvia Quadrini
Home institute: Sapienza University, Rome, Italy
Host institute: Hospital Arnau de Vilanova de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
Sponsor: Weleda
2011-2012 Fellowships and Reports
Application of IT registration system in symptoms control in Palliative Care Department of the ZNA Middelheim
Fellow: Joanna Stainslawiak
Home institute: University Hospital of Przemienienia Panskiego, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland
Host institute: ZNA Middelheim, Lindendreef 1, 2020 Antwerpen, Belgium
Sponsor: ESMO
Innovative and integrative approaches in supportive and palliative care
Fellow: Rita de Sanctis
Home institute: Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Molecular Medicine, Rome, Italy
Host institute: Instituto de Tratamiento Integral de Cancer (ITIC), Benidorm, Spain
Sponsor: ESMO