From July 10th -11th 2008 I am attending the inaugural Asia Pacific Counselling Conference in Hong Kong and conducting a 1 ½ hour presentation on “Hope” at this conference on July 11th.
From July 12th till July 19th I will be in Malaysia, conducting several trainings and workshops for Hospices in Penang and Kuala Lumpur. In these trainings I work together with Dr. Sue Marsden, a Palliative Care Consultant. Sue and I have worked together since 1988, conducting seminars and workshops world-wide.
A bio of Dr. Sue Marsden:
Sue Marsden MBBS FRANZCR FAChPM
Sue Marsden is a Palliative Medicine Specialist from New Zealand. Her initial postgraduate medical training was in Radiation Oncology and her special interest as an oncologist was in breast cancer and paediatrics. Over the last 20years, she has worked in Palliative Medicine New Zealand and Australia in hospital, hospital and community settings. Sue was instrumental in the set up of the original palliative care service in Waikato Hospital, New Zealand.
She has been a part of the Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Organisation facilitating team for Australasia. After Dr Ross’ retirement, similar loss, grief and self-awareness workshops continued and Sue has co-facilitated these in Australia, New Zealand, USA, Zimbabwe and the Philippines.
For five years, she was involved in helping to develop a palliative care program at the San Lazaro Hospital, an infectious diseases hospital, in Manila. As part of this programme she played an important role in changing the way patients die with Rabies. This has been reported in the journal ‘Progress in Palliative Care’ and has been the subject of chapters in 2 books including a new major Palliative Medicine textbook.
After working for sometime in Australia she has returned to New Zealand and is currently acting in Palliative Medicine specialist positions around the country.
Download the study: (PDF 157KB)
Rabies: a significant palliative care issue
Sue C. Marsden, Ceri R. Cabanban