ESO-OECI International Study Day on Cancer Survivorship

ORGANISING SECRETARIAT 
For further information please contact:

Silvana Valerio and Caroline Oakley
OECI Education and Training Working Group International Relations Office
National Cancer Centre IRCCS “G. Paolo II”, Bari, Italy
Phone +390805555386
fax +390805555388;
email: E&Tworking_group@oeci.eu


Scientific Coordinator:
Dr. Vittorio Mattioli, MD
Head, Department of Critical Area and Surgery, NCC “ Giovanni Paolo II”,
Viale Orazio Flacco 65, 70124 Bari, Italy
phone/fax +390805555624; email v.mattioli@oncologico.bari.it


Scientific Secretariat:
Silvana Valerio, Caroline Oakley
OECI Education and Training Working Group
International Relations Office, NCC “ Giovanni Paolo II”,
phone +390805555386/383; fax +390805555388
email: E&Tworking_group@oeci.eu


CME COMMITTEE
National Cancer Centre IRCCS “G. Paolo II”, Bari, Italy
Luciano Grammatica and Vittorio Mattioli, CME Coordinators
Patrizia Nardulli, Marisa Longo, Annamaria Quaranta, National CME Unit
Phone/fax +390805555073; email: m.longo@oncologico.bari.it


CME CREDITS
The Study Day CME Committee will ask for national and international accreditation in compliance with CME regulations. Credits will be assigned to attendees to all sessions who completed both the entrance and exit CME tests. Attendance will be verified by signature both at the start and the end of the sessions.


VENUE
NATIONAL CANCER RESEARCH CENTRE “GIOVANNI PAOLO II”
Meeting Hall
Viale Orazio Flacco, 65
70124 Bari - Italy


POSTER SESSION
A Poster Session (portrait, 70 x 100 cm) will be held in the Congress lounge for the duration of the event. Upon submission of abstracts, a Scientific Commission will judge the posters based on originality, research accuracy and innovation.
Posters from young researchers are particularly welcome, and there will be a special award of Euro 500.- each for the three best posters presented by first authors under the age of 40. All-inclusive hospitality for one night (travel expenses excluded) will also be offered to the first author of the three chosen posters.
Posters should be on display by 9.00 a.m. on 26 April and they will remain throughout the meeting.
Poster abstracts (English language, max 2500 characters, including spaces, max 4 references) must be submitted by 28 February 2012, via email only to both the following addresses:
E&Tworking_group@oeci.eu
criticare@oncologico.bari.it

Both the registration of the first author and his/her presence are compulsory.

STEERING COMMITTEE
National Cancer Research Centre “G. Paolo II”, Bari, Italy
E. Sannicandro, President of the Guideline and Verification Committee 
L. Lovecchio, General Manager
G. Pastoressa, Medical Director
A. Paradiso, Scientific Director 
V. Mattioli, Chair of the Department Critical Area And Surgery


SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
N. Aaronson, Director, Department of Psychosocial Research, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, NL
C. Alfano, Office of Cancer Survivorship, NCI/NIH, Bethesda, US 
S.D. Fosså, The Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, NO 
V. Mattioli, Director, Department of Critical Area & Surgery, National Cancer Centre IRCCS “G. Paolo II”, Bari, IT
A. Paradiso, Scientific Director, National Cancer Centre IRCCS “G. Paolo II”, Bari, IT
K. Stein, Director, Quality of Life and Survivorship Research ACS, Atlanta, US


FACULTY
N. Aaronson, Division of Psychosocial Research and Epidemiology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, NL
C. Alfano, Office of Cancer Survivorship, NCI/NIH, Bethesda, US
F. Aloè, O.U. Pain Medicine and Palliative Care, National Cancer Research Centre “G. Paolo II”, Bari, IT
A. Annunziata, S.O.S.D. Psycho‐oncology, IRCCS National Cancer Center “CRO”, Aviano, IT
N.M. Aziz, Senior Program Director Palliative Care and End of Life NCI/NIH, Bethesda, US
R. Capocaccia, Research Director, Italian National Institute of Health (ISS), Rome, IT
A. Conversano, O.U. Palliative Care and Hospice, Monopoli, IT
S.O. Dalton, Cancer Society, Dept. Epid. Cancer Res.and the Dept. of Prev. & Documen., Copenhagen, DK
F. De Falco, O.U. Psycho-oncology and Psychotherapy, NCI IRCCS Foundation “G. Pascale”, Naples, IT
F. De Lorenzo, European Cancer Patient Coalition, Rome, IT
S.D. Fosså, The Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, NO
A. Glaser, Clinical Director for The National Cancer Survivorship Initiative, UK
R. Knols, Department of Rheumatology and Institute of Physical Medicine, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, CH
J. Maher, Chief Medical Officer Macmillan Cancer Support, UK  
W. Makin, Christie Hospital, Withington, Manchester, UK
A. Marzi, National Council Member, Italian Society of Palliative Care (SICP), Albinea, IT
V. Mattioli, Department of Critical Area and Surgery, National Cancer Research Centre “Giovanni Paolo II”, Bari, IT
R.D. Mediati, Coordinator Study Group on Cancer Pain and Palliative Care of the Italian Society of Anesthesiology, Analgesia, Resuscitation, Intensive Care (SIAARTI), Florence, IT
A. Mehnert, Department of Medical Psychology, Centre for Psychosocial Medicine University Medical Center Hamburg, Eppendorf, DE
O. Minton, Division of Mental Health, St. George's, University of London, London, UK
G.I. Palma, National President Register of Psychologists, Rome, IT 
A. Paradiso, Scientific Director, National Cancer Centre IRCCS “G. Paolo II”, Bari, IT
N. Preston, Intern. Observatory of End of Life Care, Faculty of Health and Med., Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
I. Springhetti, Functional Recovery/Neuromotor Rehabilitation Section, Fond. S. Maugeri, Pavia, IT
K. Syriala, Biobehavioral Sciences and Survivorship Program Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, US
K. Stein, Behavioral Research Center, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, US
P. Tralongo, O.U. of Medical Oncology and Oncological Network, Azienda Sanitaria no 8, Syracuse, IT
L.V. Van de Poll-Franse, Center Res. on Psych. in Somatic Dis., Dept. Med. Psyc., Tilburg University, Tilburg, NL
W. van Harten, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, NL