ESMO Designated Centres Working Group
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
Chair
- Stein Kaasa, Norway
Deputy chair
- Gudrun Marie Ilse Kreye, Austria
Committee Members
- Rita Canario, Portugal
- Raphael Catane, Israel
- Nathan Cherny, Israel
- Alexandru-Calin Grigorescu, Romania
- Azza Adel Hassan, Quatar
- David Hui, United States of America
- Marianne Kloke, Germany
- Masanori Mori, Japan
- Ozgur Ozyilkan, Turkey
- Carla Ripamonti, Italy
- Maryna Rubach, Poland
- Tamari Rukhadze, Georgia
- Dirk Schrijvers, Belgium
- Anna-Marie Stevens, United Kingdom
- Florian Strasser, Switzerland
Last update: January 2018
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Related links
- Guide for Patients with Advanced Cancer: Getting the Most Out of Your Oncologist
- User’s Manual for Oncology Clinicians
- Global Opioid Policy Initiative
- ESMO E-Learning: Anxiety and Depression in Cancer Patients
- ESMO E-Learning: Practical Tips for the Management of Difficult Pain Problems
- ESMO E-Learning: Difficult Pain Problems
- ESMO Designated Centres of Integrated Oncology & Palliative Care