Pallium Latinoamerica
Non Governmental Organization (NGO) organization to Universidad del Salvador in Buenos Aires, Secretary of Postgraduate Health Education of the Government of Buenos Aires & Pall Care net of public hospitals. Leadership in palliative care education across Latin America. Recent research themes – related with service evaluation, cross-cultural adaptation & validation of technologies re patients’ assessment, symptoms epidemiology & organizational % clinical audit.
Examples of Previous Relevant Collective Experience
· EMPATHOS (Effectiveness of palliative care teams at hospitals) Consortium of public hospitals in Buenos Aires evaluating palliative care effectiveness.
· PLATO (Palliative Care, Learning Together). A collaborative project between UK, Argentina and South Africa to increase the effectiveness of palliative care education programmes in the three partner countries. Hosted by Sir Michael Sobell House, Oxford; UK.
· Work in collaboration with colleagues from the King´s College, London; UK to make a crossculturally adaptation and validation of the Palliative Outcome Scale into Argentine-Spanish.
· Audit of a Palliative care programme in Buenos Aires (non government initiative): A programme for terminally ill disadvantaged people.
· Palliative Care Programme, Cusco (Perú) Honorary advisor organization for the development of the first Palliative care Initiative in Cusco (2005-2007)