Global Palliative Care and Pain Relief Research Hub (Webinar Series)

This complimentary webinar series is a collaborative venture between the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and the Supportive Care Service, the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, part of the University of Miami Health System, the University of Miami Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas, and the International Association for Hospice Palliative Care.

Through this international endeavor that emerged from the Lancet Commission on Global Access to Palliative Care and Pain Relief, we seek to elevate the academic discourse and clinical impact of palliative care to alleviate serious health-related suffering worldwide. Through our tri-institutional partnership, we will disseminate the science and scholarship of the Global Palliative Care and Pain Relief Research Hub and invite commentary from recognized health systems and policy leaders around the world. Implications for research, clinical practice, education and training, and policy and advocacy efforts will be addressed.

This series covers a broad range of topics related to palliative care and pain relief, with an emphasis on global health equity, universal access to palliative care as a component of universal health coverage, and social justice through the following 5 sessions:

• The U.S. Cancer Pain Crisis and the Global Pain Divide: Two Wrongs and No Closer to Right
• How to Close the Global Pain Divide: Global Essential Medicine Distribution and Access
• Epi-Transitions in the Global Disease Burden and the Need for Palliative Care
• Comparative Models in Palliative Care: Perspectives from Africa, Asia, and the Americas
• Optimizing the Global Palliative Nursing Workforce to Alleviate Serious Health-Related Suffering

On Demand Access

Each session contains a video and PDFs of speaker presentations. Click 'Course Content' at the top of the page to view a list of the five sessions. Select the 'Launch Video' button under the session you wish to watch to view the recording. When you have finished the video, refer to instructions listed under each sessions section on the 'Course Content' page to claim CME credit.

This on demand program will be available until June 30, 2023. CME Credits must be claimed by June 30, 2023

Who Would Benefit from the Series

This webinar is intended for: 1) multidisciplinary healthcare providers; 2) palliative care specialists; 3) students and trainees; 4) researchers; and 5) multi-sector stakeholders and advocates invested in advancing palliative care and relief access.

1. Discuss emerging research in global palliative care and pain relief access to alleviate serious health-related suffering worldwide.
2. Describe the structural and system-level barriers that prevent universal access to palliative care as a component of universal health coverage.
3. Recognize public and global health inequities in palliative care and pain relief and actionable methods to promote social justice.
4. Identify national and global advocacy efforts and opportunities to increase palliative care and pain relief access across contexts and clinical settings.

Registration for this complete webinar series (all 5 sessions) is complimentary. However, you must have a MSK CME account on this site and be logged in to watch the sessions and claim CME credit.  

If you have any questions, please email [email protected].

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

AMA Credit Designation Statement 

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center designates this enduring material for a maximum of 7.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Recorded/Review Date: February 24-December 15, 2022; Original Release Date: December 20, 2022; Termination Date: June 30, 2023

Organizers 

Billy Rosa, PhD, MBE, NP
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Felicia Marie Knaul, PhD
University of Miami

Katherine Pettus, PhD 
International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care

Session 1 Faculty 

Andrea Enzinger, MD
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute,
Physician, Assistant Professor of Medicine,
Harvard Medical School

Paul Farmer, MD, PhD
Kolokotrones University Professor of Global
Health and Social Medicine
Harvard Medical School 

Felicia Marie Knaul, PhD
Director, Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas
Professor, Miller School of Medicine
University of Miami

Katherine Pettus, PhD
Senior Advocacy Director
International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care (IAHPC)

Smriti Rana, MSc
Director-Programmes, Pallium India
Trivandrum, Kerala, India 

Billy Rosa, PhD, MBE, NP
Assistant Attending Behavioral Scientist
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Session 1 Faculty Disclosures

Session 2 Faculty 

Ebtesam Ahmed, PharmD, MS
Clinical Professor, St. John’s University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences 
Department of Clinical Health Professions
Senior Vincentian Research Fellow  
International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care, Board of Directors Member 
Director, Pharmacy Internship 
MJHS Institute for Innovation in Palliative Care

Stefano Berterame, PhD 
Chief, Narcotics Control and Estimates Section 
International Narcotic Control Board Secretariat (INCB)
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

Ednin Hamzah, MD
Chief Executive Officer 
Hospis Malaysia

Lukas Radbruch, MD
Director, Department of Palliative Medicine
University Hospital Bonn                                                               
Chair, Board of Directors of the International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care

Billy Rosa, PhD, MBE, NP
Assistant Attending Behavioral Scientist
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Dingle Spence, BSc., MBBS, DMRT, Dip. Pall. Med, FRCR
Consultant in Clinical Oncology and Palliative Medicine
Senior Medical Officer, Hope Institute Hospital
Kingston, Jamaica

Session 2 Faculty Disclosures

Session 3 Faculty 

Héctor Arreola-Ornelas, MSc.
Research Professor, Institute for Obesity Research, School of Government and Public Transformation of the Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico.
Executive Director in Tómatelo a Pecho A.C., Mexico 
Visiting Scholar at the University of Miami Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas

Afsan Bhadelia, PhD
Senior Research Associate, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Visiting Scholar, University of Miami Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas
Visiting Faculty, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill

Liz Grant, MA, PhD,  FRSE, FRCPE, MFPH 
Assistant Principal (President), University of Edinburgh
Professor of Global Health and Development; Director of the University’s Global Health Academy

Xiaoxiao J Kwete, MBBS, MSc
Visiting Scholar, University of Miami Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas
Visiting Scientist, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Founder and Director, Global Health Research and Consulting, Yaozhi

Billy Rosa, PhD, MBE, NP
Assistant Attending Behavioral Scientist
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

David Watkins, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Global Health
University of Washington

Session 3 Faculty Disclosures

Session 4 Faculty

Heloísa Broggiato Matter
PhD Candidate, International Relations
Swansea University
United Kingdom

Gulnara Kunirova
Chief External Expert on Palliative Care, Ministry of Health of Kazakhstan
President, Kazakhstan Association for Palliative Care
Board of Director, IAHPC
Executive Director, Together Against Cancer
Kazakhstan

Emmanuel Luyirika, MFM, MPA, BPA, MB, CHB
Executive Director, African Palliative Care Association
Board Member, World Hospice Palliative Care Alliance
President, Executive Board of CoRSU Hospital
Uganda

Eve Namisango, MSc, PhD
Programmes, Research and Development Manager, African Palliative Care Association
Honorary Research Fellow, Makererere University
Uganda

M.R. Rajagopal, MD
Chairman, Pallium India
Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Training and Policy on Access to Pain Relief
India

Billy Rosa, PhD, MBE, NP
Assistant Attending Behavioral Scientist
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Session 4 Faculty Disclosures

Session 5 Faculty 

Juli McGowan Boit, RN, MSN, FNP, FAAN
Founder/International Director 
Living Room International
Redding, CA
Eldoret, Kenya

Betty Ferrell, RN, PhD, MA, CHPN, FAAN, FPCN 
Director of Nursing Research & Education; Professor
City of Hope Medical Center 
Duarte, CA

Samuel T. Matula, PhD, RN, PCNS-BC
Member of Faculty (Academia-Researcher & Lecturer)
University of Botswana
Gabarone, Botswana

Sayaka Takenouchi, PhD, RN, MPH
Aassociate Professor
Kyoto University 
Kyoto, Japan

Billy Rosa, PhD, MBE, NP
Assistant Attending Behavioral Scientist
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences 
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Session 5 Faculty Disclosures

Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. Any individuals in a position to control the content of a CE activity, including faculty, planners, reviewers, or others are required to disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies (commercial interests). All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity.