IAPCON 2020: Conference Proceedings

The main aim of choosing this venue was to attract medical personnel, mainly students and young professionals, to understand and adopt the philosophy of Palliative Care and its integrative capacity. The theme of the conference, Entrust, Engage & Empower, was chosen with an intention to symbolize the power of Palliative Care as an inclusive specialty and, build up a force of not only the medical fraternity but also those who are contributing in all forms to patient care. In continuation, Dr Sushma Bhatnagar spoke on ‘Creating an optimum model of integrating palliative care in continuum of care in Indian institutes’ and laid down a plan to implement institution based integrated model of palliative care. [INLINE:5] Day-two Attractions Meet the expert Two sub-themes were touched upon by experts in meet the expert session on Day-2: Topics on ‘Ethical perspectives in palliative care’ were presented by Dr Shoba Nair and Dr Jayita Deodhar, and ‘Opiod availability and NDPS Act implementation in India’ were presented by Dr Nandini Vallath and Dr Priti Sanghavi.