Global Summit Series

PROGRAM FORMAT AND OUTCOMES

The Global Summit will be a high-level scientific forum with global geographic, multi-disciplinary representation of approximately 70 expert representatives.  In a structured three-day format, experts will analyze Supportive Care and QOL issues for breast cancer patients in LMCs from the perspective of Survivorship and Follow-up Care, Treatment-related Quality of Life and Supportive Care, and End-of-Life and Palliative Care.  This will serve as the basis for the development of the first Guidelines for International Breast Health and Cancer Control – Supportive Care and Quality of Life for LMCs. The scientifically peer-reviewed publications resulting from the 2012 summit will be important and rare medical tools that will also serve to highlight neglected QOL and palliation issues through mixed-method implementation science research.

International presentations, discussions, workshops and professional networking will connect national and international organizations and experts from around the world to analyze issues of Supportive Care and QOL in breast cancer care delivery.

Three Consensus Working Groups will focus on key issues on how existing healthcare resources can most effectively be organized to improve palliative outcomes and integrate new supportive care and quality of life services within existing medical infrastructures. 

 

 

 

 Six to eight daily scientific presentations will review and highlight key issues to be addressed in each guideline. 

 

MORNING SESSIONS begin with a breast cancer advocacy presentation, followed by scientific presentations to highlight key issues in breast health care delivery for breast cancer QOL, moderated by 2 panel co-chairs who will also serve as the co-chairs of the guideline development process for their topic.

 

To highlight patient perspective, each session will begin with a brief patient presentation from a representative of a low-middle resource region. Six presentations will follow the advocate presentation.

 

AFTERNOON SESSIONS begin with a keynote presentation, followed by open panel discussion of key topics, focused on learning points deemed most relevant to program execution in LMCs.

 

LAST HOUR will have concurrent sessions, with workshops to highlight programs in medically underserved world regions, relevant to the Global Summit theme.

 

TARGET AUDIENCE

 

THREE KEY GROUPS:

 

 

Participants will include: breast cancer clinicians and researchers, governmental health care agencies and health policy makers, oncology nurses, public health and health systems researchers, health educators and community organizers, psychosocial care providers, palliative care experts, physical and occupational therapists, breast cancer advocates and other non-governmental organizations (NGOs), local cancer societies, and other allied healthcare providers who have an interest in or who provide healthcare for medically underserved women.  

 

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