2020 APLI forum
APLI Annual forum Saturday, 2 May, 2020 Postponed until further notice due to COVID 19 impact -------------------------------------
APLI annual forum September 2018
The forum will be held on 5th September, 2018, at University of Technology, Sydney, 0830 to 1530 Confirmed speakers include Dr Anil Tandon, Assoc. Prof. Odette Spruyt, Dr Brett Sutton, and Ms Joan Ryan. The forum is a chance to…
Project Hamrahi mentor guide
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Project Focus
As some of you may be aware, in early 2016 the Asia Pacific Hospice Palliative Care Network (APHN) held four ‘APHN Dialogs’, in which clinicians across the Asia Pacific region could link in through Skype to attend a webinar. The…
With a champion, anything is possible
- Odette Spruyt I hope you will let me tell you a story about Lakshadweep, a group of islands in the Arabian sea, off the coast of Kerala, India. A teacher of art at a government girls’ college in Kavaratti,…
Kosish the Hospice, India: Contexts, Conversations, Compassion and a Conference 29 January to 15 February 2016
- Karen Anderson, Lecturer & Unit Coordinator, Edith Cowan University In the December 2015 Issue of the Australasian Palliative Link International Newsletter, Dr Odette Spruyt wrote of her personal experience of her mother’s passing in April 2015. For Odette, knowing…
Fear is the key!
Working with the dying reveals two aspects of our nature…the first being our sense of compassion, which is bountiful and healing; not only for the patient and their family and friends, who too suffer, but also for our own self;…
Heat and Dust – adventures in Rajasthan.
In 2015 I was fortunate to have had the opportunity of travelling twice to India as part of Project Hamrahi activities. In June I spent a week with Anjum Joad at the Bhagwan Mahaveer Cancer Hospital and Research Centre (BMCHRC)…
First visit to Fiji – November, 2015
Fiji Islands The team at the Colonial War Memorial Hospital welcomed me to visit them in November to meet and talk together about their efforts to develop palliative care in Fiji. Dr Fong, obstretician gynaecologist and Chairperson of the National…