Introducing Dr Julie Ling: Incoming CEO of the EAPC
Dr Julie Ling, PhD, takes up her new role as
Chief Executive Officer of the European Association for Palliative Care
on 1 January 2015. Dr Ling tells us more…
Dr Julie Ling: Incoming CEO of the EAPC
I am delighted to be asked to contribute to the EAPC blog in my new
role as incoming CEO of the EAPC. I would like to acknowledge the work
of my predecessor, Heidi Blumhuber, who has been CEO of the EAPC for the
past twenty-five years and who has overseen the establishment, growth
and development of the organisation.
I originally qualified as a nurse. Since then, I have worked in
palliative care in England and Ireland for the past twenty-five years in
both adult and children’s palliative care. During this time I have
worked clinically, in research, in policy and also in management. I have
represented palliative care at a national level most notably during my
time as an adviser in the Department of Health, in Dublin. In this post I
was involved in the development and implementation of the Irish
palliative care policy and also involved in several international
initiatives.
I am currently a member of several national palliative care groups in
Ireland and for the past six years I worked at a European level though
my contribution as a member of an EAPC taskforce on children’s
palliative care. I was chair of the EAPC taskforce on education in
children’s palliative care, which has recently completed its work
resulting in the publication of the EAPC’s White paper on core competencies for education in paediatric palliative care.
The aim of the EAPC is to promote palliative care in Europe and to
act as a focus for all of those who work or have an interest in this
field of healthcare. The EAPC is an organisation that prides itself on
professional representation and nurtures the development of the
specialty through research and education. I understand the essential
role of research and have worked in many aspects of research in
palliative care in particular during my time working at the Royal
Marsden Hospital in London. More recently, I completed a PhD in
children’s palliative care. I have written and published on various
aspects of palliative care and am also on the editorial board of the International Journal of Palliative Nursing.
Since starting my career in palliative care I have been an active
member of the EAPC and over the years have attended many of the EAPC
congresses. Within the palliative care community these events are
generally regarded as the premier palliative care conference and they
remain essential events for both knowledge exchange and for networking. I
look forward to working with the EAPC Board of Directors and with those
elected at the forthcoming congress in Copenhagen (8-10 May 2015).
As CEO I am committed to building on the strong foundations of my
predecessor and continuing the work of the organisation to ensure that
over the coming years the EAPC moves forward in a strategic and
meaningful way in order to fulfill its vision, and continues to meet the
needs of the healthcare professionals it represents for the benefit of
patients and families.
Links
- European Association for Palliative Care.
- EAPC 2015: 14th World Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care.
- You can read about some of the EAPC’s current activities in a recent post by board member, Dr David Oliver, on the EAPC blog.
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