Event web site:
The 3rd International Symposium on Healthcare Communication
RSVP link:
https://www.polyu.edu.hk/engl/event/3rd_IRCCH_symposium/registration/
We invite healthcare professionals, clinicians, educators, researchers and others from around the world to join us for this exciting event.
The Symposium brings together leading local and international practitioners, educators, academics, and leaders to share and discuss innovative practices, educational strategies, and cutting edge research that effectively promote compassionate healthcare, attention to core values and skilled communication in different healthcare settings around the world.
This special event will include the launch of IRCCH as the Asia–Pacic Healthcare Hub of Charter for Compassion International. This exciting formal collaboration brings together CCI’s worldwide alliance of healthcare partners working to instill compassion in all healthcare relationships and systems, and IRCCH’s ability to translate cutting edge communication research into best practice and training for safe and compassionate healthcare.
IRCCH's initiative, the International Charter for Human Values in Healthcare, works to promote and implement attention to core values, including Compassion, through skilled communication, in every healthcare interaction. Both IRCCH and the International Charter for Human Values in Healthcare are partners of Charter for Compassion International.
The 3rd International Symposium on Healthcare Communication Communicating for Compassionate Healthcare:
The formal launch of IRCCH as the Asia-Pacific Healthcare Hub of Charter for Compassion International will occur at the Symposium.
The Charter for Compassion represents a major worldwide organization working with over 1100 partners to promote principles of compassion through practical action in a variety of sectors including healthcare, education, science/technology and research, environment, business and others.
Speakers include
Dr. Rev. Joan Brown Campbell
President, Board of Directors, Charter for Compassion International
Director Emeritus, Chautauqua Institute, USA
Prof. Peter J. Schulz
Professor for Communication Theories and Health Communication
Director, Institute of Communication and Health University of Lugano, The Switzerland
Dr. E. Angela Chan
Associate Head (Undergraduate Studies), School of Nursing
Associate Director, International Research Centre for Communication in Healthcare
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Dr. Dorothy Jones
Professor Clinical Safety & Quality Curtin University, Australia
Prof. Suzanne Kurtz
Clinical Professor, Clinical Communication Program (Founding Director)
Washington State University, USA
University of Calgary (Professor Emerita), Canada
Dr. Christina M. Puchalski
Professor, Medicine and Health Sciences
Director, George Washington Institute for Spirituality and Health (GWish)
Gorge Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences, USA
Dr. Elizabeth A. Rider
Director of Academic Programs, Institute for Professionalism & Ethical Practice
Boston Children’s Hospital / Harvard Medical School, USA Global Compassion Council, Charter for Compassion International, USA
Prof. Diana Slade
Professor of Applied Linguistics
Director, International Research Centre for Communication in Healthcare
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Associate Professor Roger Dunston
Associate Director, International Research Centre for Communication in Healthcare
University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Dr. Suzanne Eggins
Research Fellow, Effective Communication in Clinical Handovers (ECCHo) Project
University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Marilyn Turkovich
Interim Director
Charter for Compassion International (CCI), USA
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