Outside the Box with Palliative Care Medicine

11.30am – 12.45pm BST, 2 July 2025 ‐ 1 hour 15 mins

Stream 2

This session will bring together world leading international and national experts in palliative medicine to talk about why, when it comes to ICU, palliative medicine is about more than ‘end of life’ care. We will be discussing the current evidence base for interventions on the ICU as well as what is needed now to further our knowledge, opening-up opportunities for palliative medicine in the ICU and for those with chronic and life limiting illness, how we can engage with parallel planning in a way that respects individual needs and values. This is a session that should appeal to the whole MDT, whether you work in a district general or tertiary centre. Modernising palliative medicine on your unit is everyone’s business!

Speakers

Dr Aoife Abbey

Consultant Intensivist

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Dr Katerina Rusinova

Head of the Department of Palliative Medicine, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University

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Dr Aoife Abbey

Consultant Intensivist

Aoife Abbey is a Consultant Intensivist at University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire. She is an Intensive Care Society, Council member and chair of the Society's Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) group. 

Aoife is author of an international published non-fiction book Seven Signs of Life and section editor for From the inside at Intensive Care Medicine

: @whistlingdixie4

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Dr Katerina Rusinova

Head of the Department of Palliative Medicine, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University

Katerina Rusinova, MD, Ph.D. is a leading expert in palliative medicine and Head of the Department of Palliative Medicine at the 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and the General University Hospital in Prague. Originally trained in anesthesiology and intensive care, she transitioned to palliative care after international experience in France and the USA. She co-founded the first academic palliative care department in the Czech Republic in 2021 and has contributed to major international research projects. A former Intensive Care Medicine editor, she also founded Paliativní medicína. With a background in acting, she integrates empathy into medicine and advocates for values-based patient care.