International ACP Conference - An Idea Whose Time Has Come

No longer a topic to be approached tentatively, fearing legal and ethical recriminations. Finally a topic to be incorporated into the everyday lives and health care of individuals--conversations to be initiated and honoured over time--a process, not an event. A fundamental human right: the right to express wishes about personal goals for future health care and have those wishes be durable through periods of decision-making incapacity. Advance Care Planning and the research supporting it will be the linchpin of the first ever International Conference on Advance Care Planning being held this April in Melbourne, Australia. International experts presenting in Melbourne include: Associate Professor W (Bill) Silvester
Austin Health, VIC (Chair)
Dr Bud Hammes
Ethicist and advance care planning expert, Wisconsin, USA
Ms Linda Briggs
Ethicist and advance care planning expert, Wisconsin, USA
Professor John Luce
Critical care and end-of-life care specialist, San Francisco, USA
Prof Malcolm Fisher AO
Intensive Care and end-of-life care specialist, Sydney, Australia
Ms Sue Grant RN, Dipl.T.
Advance care planning expert, Vancouver, Canada
Professor Jane Seymour
Palliative and end-of-life care expert, Nottingham, UK
Professor Keri Thomas
National Clinical Lead Palliative Care in the UK National Health Service End-of-life care program and Lead for the Gold Standards Framework program, Clinical Director Community Pall Care, Pan- Birmingham Palliative Care Network, Senior Clinical Lecturer Birmingham University, UK
Professor Pablo Simón Lorda
Advance care planning expert, Granada Spain
Professor Edwin C. Hui
Ethics and end-of-life care specialist, Hong Kong