Hospice Care Professionals Association

is a non-profit organization, uniting people and legal entities in order to achieve socially useful goals of palliative and hospice care.

The second stage of the ТоТ course on palliative care

The Hospice Care Professionals Association (HCPA) continues the two-year course on palliative care launched in 2020 for medical universities’ teachers.

At the end of 2020, the HCPA and the Federal Scientific and Practical Center for Palliative Medical Care of Sechenov University, with the support of the Global Palliative Care Program of Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School and the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, conducted an educational online-course with teachers of 9 medical universities of the Russian Federation. Starting from April 2021, the ToT course’s lecturers will take part in palliative care programs in participating universities.

Our lecturers: Eric Krakauer (Harvard Medical School), Stephen Connor (WHPCA), Tom Smith (Johns Hopkins University), Diana Nevzorova (HCPA), Eugenia Krotova (USA), Galina Khemlina (USA), Guzel Abuzarova (Moscow), Alexander Sidorov (Yaroslavl’), Olga Osetrova (Samara), Egor Larin (Moscow), Kudrina Oksana (Sechenov University).