Final Announcement
Communication for Better Care
7 - 9 May 2010
Impiana Casuarina Hotel, Ipoh
Registration fee
Doctors RM250, Nurses/volunteers/others RM200
Closing date: 30 March 2010
Keynote Speaker:
Dr Rosalie Shaw
Palliative Care Physician and Consultant, Formerly Executive Director of Asia Pacific Hospice Palliative Care Network
Speakers:
Dato’ Seri Dr T Devaraj
CEO / Medical Director, Penang Hospice Society
Datuk Dr Kuan Geok Lan
Head & Senior Consultant Paediatrician, Department of Paediatrics
Hospital Melaka
Dr James Low
Head & Consultant Geriatrician, Department of Geriatric Medicine,
Alexandra Hospital, Singapore
Dr Ednin Hamzah
CEO Hospis Malaysia
Dr Richard Lim
Consultant Palliative Medicine Physician, Hospital Selayang
Ms See Foon Chan-Koppen B.A. Hon
NL P Trainer, American Board of Hypnotherapy,
American Board of Neurolinguistic Programming
Associate Professor Edward Poon
Director of Nursing, Dover Park Hospice.
Adjunct Associate Professor, AL CNS , NUS
Dr Loh Ee Chin
Palliative Medicine Physician & Lecturer, University Malaya Medical Centre
Dr Yong Woon Chai
Consultant Geriatrician, Alexandra Hospital, Singapore
Dr Yeat Choi Ling
Palliative Medicine Physician, Hospital Raja Permaisuri Bainun, Ipoh
Scientific Programme
Friday 7th May 2010
14:00-18:00 Congress Registration
15:00 MHC Board meeting
17:00 MHC AGM - Followed by MHC new Board meeting
20:00 Dinner for MHC Board members
Saturday 8th May 2010
07:30 Congress Registration
08:30 Plenary 1: (to be confirmed)
09:30 Opening ceremony by MHC Chairman
Keynote address: Effective Communication for Better Care - Dr Rosalie Shaw
Opening of Congress exhibition
10:30 Tea Break
11:00 Symposium 1: Difficult symptoms
When opioids fail - Dr Richard Lim
Pain in non-communicating patient - Dr Yong Woon Chai
Breathlessness - Dr Yeat Choi Ling
Symposium 2: Communication
Communicating with palliative patient in acute care setting - Dr Loh Ee Chin
Collusion: an approach - Dr James Low
Advanced care planning - Assoc. Prof. Edward Poon
12:30 Lunch Talk
14:00 Plenary 2: Social marketing – a key strategy in improving access to palliative care -
Dr Ednin Hamzah
15:00 Tea Break
15:20-17:00
Workshop 1: Unconscious mind at work (SBAR) - Assoc. Prof. Edward Poon
Workshop 2: communication skills – How to tlak so others will listen - MS See Foon Chan-Koppen
19:30 Congress Banquet
Sunday 9th May 2010
08:30 Symposium 3: Terminal care
Facilitating good death at home: preventing & managing symptomatic & emotional crisis - Dr Loh Ee Chin
Wish fulfillment: whose wishes and why? - Dr Rosalie Shaw
Symposium 4: Palliative care for SPECIAL GROUPS
Challenges in caring for very old patients - Dr James Low
Caring for children with terminal illness - Datuk Dr Kuan Geok Lan
09:45 Tea Break
10:15 Panel discussion 1: Learn from successful and not so successful experience
Running in-patient hospice (Rumah Hospice, PCU)
Running daycare (Hospis Malaysia)
Running home care (PPCS)
11:45 Panel discussion 2: Community palliative care in Malaysia: where are we now and where do we go from here?
13:00 Lunch
Congress Venue & Hotel
Impiana Casuarina Hotel, Ipoh
18 Jalan Raja Dr Nazrin Shah, 30250 Ipoh
Contact person: Encik Sharul Ain
Tel: 05-2555555 Fax: 05-2551948
email: resvihi@impiana.com
For further information, please contact the Secretariat:
9th Malaysian Hospice Congress
c/o Perak Palliative Care Society
14 Lebuh Woods, Canning Garden,
31400 Ipoh, Perak Darul Ridzuan, Malaysia.
Tel/Fax: 605-5469021
Email: ppcs95@streamyx.com
