APMJ Conference: Kaleidoscope of care – innovation for everyone
Event Recorded: Sunday 27 September 2026
Tickets
- APM Member Resident Doctor £20.00
- Non-Member Resident Doctor £30.00
- Medical Student £10.00
Watch Back Tickets Available
Hourly Schedule
APMJ Programme
- 09:00 - 09:05
- Welcome and Introductions
- Dr Suzanne Kite
- 09:05 - 10:00
- Keynote Speaker: What it means to care? Followed by Q&A
- Rekha Vijayshankar
- 10:00 - 10:50
- Parallel Sessions 1: Expanding Access
- Room 1: Remembering Ourselves: Reflective Arts and Trauma-Informed Practice with Asylum Seekers at the Margins of Hospice Care
- Loren Seaman
- Room 2: Homelessness and Palliative Care - delivery challenges and local systems innovation
- Sam Dorney-Smith
- Room 3: Measuring to improve: Why audit care at the end of life?
- Dr Mary Miller
- 10:50 - 11:00
- Break
- 11:00 - 11:50
- Parallel Sessions 2: Palliative Care Across Complex Settings
- Room 4: Teaching Palliative Care in Conflict Zones
- Dr Mhoira Leng
- Room 5: Inclusivity and equity in bereavement support - what does it mean and how do we get there?
- Dr Lucy Selman
- Room 6: Communicating Uncertainty in the Palliative Care Setting
- Dr Stephen Fenning
- 11:50 - 12:30
- Oral Presentations of selected abstracts followed by Q&A
- Facilitated by Dr Madeleine Fisher
- Enhancing Spiritual Literacy in End-of-Life Care: A Multi-Centre Service Audit of Best Practice of Religious Support and Post-Mortem Planning for Muslim Patients
- Fatemeh Seyedeh
- Expanding the Subcutaneous Route in Palliative Care: A Case Series of Non-Traditional Medicines for Symptom Management
- Dr Oliver Maynard
- Palliative Medicine Articulate: Broadening students understanding and confidence of key concepts through game-based learning
- Dr Charlotte Tunnell
- Understanding total pain: a scoping review and co-design of a patient and carer information leaflet
- Neil Sardesai
- 12:30 - 13:00
- Lunch – Virtual display of poster presentations
- 13:00 - 13:05
- Announcement of oral presentations/poster presentations and essay competition winners and runners up
- Facilitated by Dr Madeleine Fisher
- 13:05 - 13:55
- Plenary Session - Research in Palliative Medicine: Opportunities for Students and Trainees
- The Palliative Care Research Society, Dr Rachel Davies, and Dr Elisha De-Alker
- 13:55 - 14:45
- Parallel Sessions 3: Research Spotlight
- Room 7: Assessment and Management of Sialorrhea in Severe acquired brain injury
- Teresa Clark
- Room 8: Palliative Care on the margins: prisons, homelessness, substance misuse and trauma informed palliative care
- Dr Joy Rafferty
- Room 9: Thinking Ahead: Making Future Care Planning Accessible
- Dr Sally Boa
- 14:45 - 15:00
- Break
- 15:00 - 15:30
- Alternative pathways: SAS Careers in Palliative Medicine
- Dr Beth Goundry
- 15:30 - 16:00
- Career pathways to delivering supportive oncology
- Dr Daniel Monnery
- 16:00 - 16:45
- Applying for and working in the best specialty (Palliative Medicine)
- Dr Muhammad Usman Waris
- 16:45 - 17:00
- Closing Remarks
