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
- Stein Kaasa, Norway
Deputy chair
- Gudrun Marie Ilse Kreye, Austria
Committee Members
- Gil Bar-Sela, Israel
- Carole Bouleuc, France
- Andres Felipe Cardona, Colombia
- Jelena Dimitrijevic, Serbia
- Raffaele Giusti, Italy
- Susana Guevara-Mendez, Spain
- David Hui, United States of America
- Philipp Jakob Jost, Austria
- Florence Le Tinier, France
- Gabor Liposits, Denmark
- Mari Lohmus, Estonia
- Carlos Paiva, Brazil
- Bhavana Rai, India
- Anna Reyners, Netherlands
- Jayne Wood, United Kingdom
- Kwok Keung Yuen, Hong Kong
- Camilla Zimmermann, Canada
Last update: April 2021