Erin Das @erindas - Bluesky Profile

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Join us! Using mPallCare to Strengthen Palliative Care in Humanitarian Contexts:
A Global Dialogue
#1: 3pm London May 7 twoworldscancer.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#2: 8am London May 8 twoworldscancer.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

26.04.2025 09:24 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Career paths, what people think (a straight arrow), what they actually are like (an arrow with a big loopy squiggle in the middle

I set out to be a clinical doctor forever.
Then life happened.
I left medicine and, with that, felt completely lost.

I have now found my way again,
Navigating a path less trodden,
But no less fulfilling.

Careers are not linear.

19.03.2025 18:04 — 👍 64 🔁 9 💬 3 📌 0

Frequency and predictors of caregiver burden among patients with cancer receiving palliative cancer treatment - PubMed Caregiver burden is common in informal primary caregivers of patients with advanced cancer receiving palliative treatment, especially in highly stressed women.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40063332/

20.03.2025 13:14 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Promotional graphic with text that says 'Right-Sizing Right- Health Systems for Kids: CREATING TH FUTURE TOGETHER, Pre-Conference Hive: Co-Designing an Implementation Guide for Canada's New Pediatric Pain Standard. Logos for Children's Healthcare Canada/Santé dese enfants Canada, SKIP/Solutions for kids in pain/Pour douleur chez les enfants, and The Center for Implementation

Join SKIP & The Center for Implementation in Ottawa for a Pain Hive Workshop at #ChildHealthCan2025 on Apr 13! Co-design an Implementation Guide for Canada’s new Pediatric Pain Standard.

Learn more & register: tinyurl.com/2m7kx28d Download the standard: tinyurl.com/a2bbs5r2 #ItDoesntHaveToHurt

21.02.2025 14:41 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Join us on May 7th and 8th for our quarterly Global Webinar. Save the date!

20.03.2025 13:54 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Endorsed by the International Children's Palliative Care Network, St. Jude Global Palliative Care, and Stanford School of Medicine, the handbook, edited by Dr. Megan Doherty is available as a free download. #hapc #PedPC #spiritualcare twoworldscancer.ca/resources

24.02.2025 14:20 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Unmet Spiritual Needs, Spiritual Wellbeing and Support Satisfaction of End-of-Life Patients: Findings from a Spiritual and Existential Care Training Program (SpECi) for Health Care Practitioners withi... The outcomes of a 40-h Spiritual/Existential Care training program (SpECi) for healthcare professionals on their patients' treatment satisfaction (n = 774) were evaluated. Most patients felt supported...

Unmet Spiritual Needs, Spiritual Wellbeing and Support Satisfaction of End-of-Life Patients: Findings from a Spiritual and Existential Care Training Program for Health Care Practitioners within Inpatient Palliative Care Units and Hospices #hapc #spiritualcare link.springer.com/article/10.1...

24.02.2025 15:30 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1

🚩 List your program on the Palliative Care Provider Directory!
🔗 https://www.capc.org/provider-directory/

Our national Directory provides an easy way for patients, families, and referring clinicians to locate programs in their area. Add or claim your program today! #hpm #hapc

25.02.2025 00:56 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Exciting news! 📰The construction contract for the Children’s Cancer Centre has been awarded to Sisk with deconstruction of our old building beginning soon. The upcoming CCC will match our facilities to our ambitions for treatment and research, delivered in an environment that puts children first.🏗️

30.01.2025 13:01 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Such an important step forward! Check out what St Jude and others are doing to close the gap for children with serious illness!

25.02.2025 04:49 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Warning signs of childhood cancer

It's International #ChildhoodCancer Day.

Each year, 400 000 children & adolescents develop #cancer. Common types of childhood cancer include:

🔹Leukaemia
🔹brain tumours
🔹lymphomas
🔹solid tumours (such as neuroblastoma & Wilms tumour)

Learn more: bit.ly/2NeFF8B

15.02.2025 10:14 — 👍 544 🔁 144 💬 8 📌 8

@erindas is following 20 prominent accounts

Pitt Palliative Research Center (PaRC)
@pittpalcare

A multi-disciplinary collaborative of University of Pittsburgh #palliative care researchers asking empiric questions and exploring ethical dilemmas to improve serious illness care. palcare.pitt.edu

Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
@msf.ca

Doctors Without Borders is a medical humanitarian organization that provides medical assistance to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters or exclusion from healthcare. Independent. Neutral. Impartial. https://hootbio.com/msf

PallCHASE
@pallchase

PallCHASE is a global network, since 2016, that wants to see a world in which everyone affected by humanitarian situations or emergencies who is experiencing health-related suffering has access to palliative care. Learn more at www.pallchase.org

Richard Simcock
@breastdocuk

30 years #NHS #breastcancer Oncologist #Brighton Chief Medical Officer Macmillan Cancer Support

Dr Nicola Davis
@drnicoladavis

Clinical Oncology consultant, co-runs @Book oncology book club, runs cRxeate. Avid reader. Interests: Med ed, med hum, creativity, wellbeing. she/her

NHS Million
@nhsmillion

Creating a team of a million people who are willing to fight for the NHS and its staff at this challenging time. Here to highlight key issues and boost morale.

Create the Ripple
@createtheripple

Passionate about people, positivity and potential. Creating ripples of kindness.

Doctors in Distress
@doctorsindistress

💙Charity protecting the mental health of UK healthcare workers and prevent suicide💙 To donate click here www.justgiving.com/doctors-in-distress

NHS Practitioner Health
@nhsprachealth

Mental health and addiction treatment service for health and care professionals who cannot access confidential treatment from local services. Tel: 0300 0303 300 For 24/7 crisis support text NHSPH to 85258.

Coastal Community & Creative Health
@coastalcch

Research project on health equity in coastal regions in England, funded by AHRC (2024-27). ⛱️🩺🧠 Principal Investigators: Barbara Mezes & @lucyselman.bsky.social Blackpool, Hastings & Weston-super-Mare https://coastalcch.bristol.ac.uk

Compassionate Communities UK
@compassionatecomm

We believe the healing powers of compassion and community can transform how we experience life and death. We offer consultancy, training courses, webinars and memberships.

Learning Disability England
@learningdiseng

Learning Disability England is a movement for change. Our members are people with learning disabilities, families, & organisations. We work for human rights, equality & good lives. https://www.learningdisabilityengland.org.uk/

Community Catalysts
@commcats

A social enterprise that works in partnership across the UK to make sure people are part of strong, inclusive communities. Visit: https://www.communitycatalysts.co.uk/

The King's Fund
@thekingsfund

The King's Fund is an independent charity working to improve people's health. Our vision is a world where everyone can live a healthy life. https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/

AGE Research Group
@newcastleage

AGE Research Group, Newcastle University, led by Professor Avan Aihie Sayer. Improving lives through world-class research in ageing, sarcopenia and multiple long-term conditions (MLTC).

Wolfson Palliative Care Research Centre
@wolfsonpallcare

Find us at https://www.hyms.ac.uk/research/research-centres-and-groups/wolfson

Marie Curie UK
@mariecurieuk

We’re the UK’s leading end of life charity. Hospice care and support, research and campaigns. Whatever the illness, we’re with you to the end 💛

Canadian Virtual Hospice
@virtualhospice

The most comprehensive online source of information on advanced illness, palliative care, loss and grief in the world. #VirtualHospice 🌈 🇨🇦 #StandWithUkraine

Parents For The Planet
@parents4planet

providing support for the eco-overwhelmed. Planet parents are people who worry about and brag on their planet. Positive news, actions to take, art, and more. IRL a business psychologist. Use ALT text. Accessibility matters.

Annabel
@annabelhowell

Mum and wife, loving life in Scotland. Medical Director, Childrens’ Hospices Across Scotland (CHAS), ViceChair My Name’5 Doddie Foundation, PhD student University of Hull re digital tech used in palliative care during the pandemic.