ECPC Annual Congress and Annual General Meeting (AGM)
Renaissance Hotel, Brussels
7 – 9 June 2019
Presentations and documents to download:
Programme of the ECPC Annual Congress 2019
Pre-congress Workshops:
Annual Congress:
Opening Session (Francesco de Lorenzo, ECPC President)
European Commission Proposal on Health Technology Assessment Cooperation and Patient Involvement in HTA (Flora Giorgio, Head of Sector HTA, DG SANTE, European Commission)
Work-Life Balance Directive and European Pillar of Social Rights, from regulation to implementation (Efi Anastasiou, European Commission, DG EMPL)
The era of new advanced cancer diagnostics (Marc van den Bulcke, Head of Service, Cancer Centre, Sciensano)
ECPC’s highlights and achievements of the past year (Francesco de Lorenzo, ECPC President)
Europe of Social Disparities:
Antonella Cardone, ECPC Director
Roberto De Miro,, Chair of the ECPC Legal Network for Cancer Patient
Embracing Carers (Mihaela Militaru, Senior Director, EU Patient Advocacy, Merck Group)
eSMART (Roma Maguire, Professor of Digital Health and Care, University of Strathclyde)
Introduction to Digital Health (Kathi Apostolidis, ECPC Board Member)
European Liquid Biopsy Academy (Danijela Koppers-Lalic, VU Medical Center, Cancer Center Amsterdam)
What is biobanking and why it matters to cancer patients? Diagnostics, genomics and personalized medicine (Francesco Florindi, Strategy and Partnership Manager, BBMRI-ERIC)
HTA Educational module (Alex Filicevas, Head of EU Affairs, ECPC / presented by Max Schravendeel, Health & Research Officer, ECPC)
Malnutrition and Cancer (Isabelle Manneh, Head of Health & Research Programmes, ECPC)
Sunday AGM
ECPC Members share their best practice
IREN: A practical tool for cancer patients who consider participating in a clinical trial (Institut Jules Bordet – Patrick Miqueu, Belgium)
Unmet needs of cancer patients and their families are being met by Volunteer-led community-based cancer support centre – But not everyone can access this support (East Galway and Midlands Cancer Support – Frances Drummond, Ireland)
20 years support for women (Mamma help – Jelena Burianová, Czech Republic)
Lenphoedema Prevention, early detection and treatment (Living well with cancer – Maria Theodoridou, Greece)
Capacity Building for Nurses (Myeloma Euronet Romania – Lucian Andrei Despa, Romania)
Best Practice from their organisations (Alliance of Women with Breast Cancer – Marta Kostrová, Czech Republic)
Friday, 7th June
09:30 – 13:00 Pre-congress Workshops & Events
- Social Disparities in Cancer (ROOM: Luxembourg/The Hague)
- Urological Cancers (ROOM: Warsaw)
- Rare Cancers (ROOM: Copenhagen/Essen)
13:00 – 14:30 Registration (ROOM: Foyer 1)
14:30 – 15:00 Opening Session moderated by Tamsin Rose (ROOM: Ball Room 1 + 2)
Chaired by ECPC President, Francesco de Lorenzo
Welcome word by MEP Lieve Wierinck
15:00 – 15:30 European Commission Proposal on Health Technology Assessment Cooperation and Patient Involvement in HTA
Flora Giorgio, Head of Sector HTA, DG SANTE, European Commission
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break and group photo
16:00 – 16:30 Work-Life Balance Directive and European Pillar of Social Rights, from regulation to implementation
Efi Anastasiou, European Commission, DG EMPL
16:30 – 17:00 The era of new advanced cancer diagnostics
Marc van den Bulcke, Head of Service, Cancer Centre, Sciensano
17:00 – 17:30 Closing of the day
19:00 – 22:00 Dinner (ROOM: Ball Room 1 + 2)
Saturday, 8th June
09:00 – 09:30 Registration to the Congress (ROOM: Foyer 1)
09:30 – 09:40 Introduction to the programme of the day moderated by Tamsin Rose (ROOM: Ball Room 1 + 2)
09:40 – 10:15 ECPC’s highlights and achievements of the past year
ECPC President, Francesco de Lorenzo
10:15 – 11:00 Social Disparities & Work-Life Balance Directive moderated by Tamsin Rose
Chaired by: Kathi Apostolidis, Vice-President ECPC and Francoise Meunier, Vice-President FEAM
- Europe of Social Disparities
Antonella Cardone, ECPC Director
Roberto De Miro, Chair of the ECPC Legal Network for Cancer Patients
- Embracing Carers
Mihaela Militaru, Senior Director, EU Patient Advocacy, Merck Group
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break (ROOM: Foyer 1)
11:30 – 13:00 Digital Health moderated by Tamsin Rose (ROOM: Ball Room 1 + 2)
Chaired by Ken Matris, ECPC Board Member
eSMART
Roma Maguire, Professor of Digital Health and Care, University of Strathclyde
Introduction to Digital Health
Kathi Apostolidis, ECPC Board Member
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch buffet (ROOM:Lisbon/Madrid/Essen/Copenhagen/Warsaw)
14:30 – 15:30 Personalised medicine moderated by Tamsin Rose
(ROOM: Ball Room 1 + 2)
Chaired by Matti Järvinen, ECPC Board Member
European Liquid Biopsy Academy
Danijela Koppers-Lalic, VU Medical Center, Cancer Center Amsterdam
What is biobanking and why it matters to cancer patients? Diagnostics, genomics and personalized medicine
Francesco Florindi, Strategy and Partnership Manager, BBMRI-ERIC
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 – 16:30 HTA Educational module
Alex Filicevas, Head of EU Affairs, ECPC
16:30 – 17:00 Malnutrition and Cancer
Isabelle Manneh, Head of Health & Research Programmes, ECPC
17:00 – 17:30 Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy
19:15 – 23:00 Dinner (ROOM: Ball Room 1 + 2)
Sunday, 9th June
09:00 – 10:00 ECPC Members share their best practices (ROOM: Ball Room 1 + 2)
Chaired by Maude Andersson, ECPC Board Member
10:00 – 10:30 ECPC Website and Social Media presentation
Clémence Morinière, Communication and Partnerships Manager, ECPC
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break (ROOM: Foyer 1)
11:00 – 13:00 Annual General Meeting (AGM) (ROOM: Ball Room 1 + 2)
11:00 – 11:15 Introduction to the new Director and Activity Report
11:15 – 11:30 Financial Report, Audit Committee
Pietro Presti, Audit Committee Chair, ECPC
Antonella Cardone, Director, ECPC
11:30 – 11:45 2019 Action Plan, Antonella Cardone, Director, ECPC
11:45 – 12:00 2019 Budget, Antonella Cardone, Director, ECPC
12:00 – 12:15 AGM Release of responsibility of the current board
12:15 – 12:45 The past President introduces the new board
12:45 – 13:00 Conclusions and closing of the AGM
The 2019 ECPC Annual Congress is supported by:
