The ESMO Designated Centres Working Group (DCWG) 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
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Chair
- Jayne Wood, United Kingdom
Deputy chair
- Anna Reyners, Netherlands
Working Group Members
- Anda Sampetrean, France
- Bhavana Rai, India
- Camilla Zimmermann, Canada
- Carlos Paiva, Brazil
- Gabor Liposits, Denmark
- Gil Bar-Sela, Israel
- Ihor Vynnychenko, Ukraine
- Jelena Dimitrijevic, Serbia
- Konstantinos Christofyllakis, Germany
- Kwok Keung Yuen, Hong Kong
- Madelaine Amante, Philippines
- Mila Petrova, Bulgaria
- Philipp Jakob Jost, Austria
- Raffaele Giusti, Italy
- Stein Kaasa, Norway
- Sulav Sapkota, Nepal
- Susana Guevara-Mendez, Spain
- Vinodhkumar Selvaraj, India
Last update: June 2023