My Nonprofit Reviews

IAHPC has been a guiding institution for my professional development in the field of Palliative Care for more than 15 years. In 2007 I was starting my medical practice as a palliative care physician in a newly formed university program in Chile and IAHPC supported the implementation of this program by helping me to do an internship in the palliative medicine centre at MD Anderson Cancer Centre in Houston, Texas, where I was hosted by Dr. Eduardo Bruera. Subsequently, they continued to support me and thanks to them I was able to attend scientific congresses of the European Association of Palliative Care, which was the starting point for the development of my career as an academic palliative care physician, work that I have done to this day seeing results in the areas of research, undergraduate and post-graduate medical education, as well as in the field of advocacy related to the recent recognition of the specialty of palliative medicine in our country. Today I look back and feel gratitude for the concrete support I received from IAHPC at the beginning of my career, but also for the inspiration caused by the consistency that its leaders have shown for so many years of work transparently oriented to relief health related suffering of so many people in the world.