Conference Day 1 (October 15, 2025)

TIME

TENTAIVE PROGRAMME

8:30am

Registration

9:00am

Opening and Welcoming Remarks
Representative from the Social Welfare Department, the Government of the HKSAR
Representative from the Hong Kong Jockey Club
Representative from the University of Hong Kong

9:20am

Keynote Presentation 1 (Theme: Recent Development of EoLC in Hong Kong)
Mr. Albert Lam
Consultant (Health), Health Bureau, Government of the HKSAR

10:00am

Dialogue on Efforts in the Community for Promoting EoLC in Hong Kong
Mr. Albert Lam

  Professor Amy Chow, Co-Director, JCECC Project

10:20am

Keynote Presentation 2 (Theme: Palliative Care Development in Mainland China)
Professor Xiaohong Ning
Professor, Director of Palliative Medicine Center, PUMCH (Peking Union Medical College Hospital), PR China

11:00am

Coffee Break

11:30am -
12:45pm

Breakout Session 1

Free Paper Parallel Sessions

Invited Symposium 1

Invited Symposium 2

Session 1

Session 2

Session 3

• EoLC in the Community: Die at Home and RCHEs
• Dr. Edward Leung (President, Hong Kong Association of Gerontology)
• Dr. Fang Chun-kai (Hospice and Palliative Care Centre, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei & New Taipei, Taiwan)
• Dr. Tracy Chen (Consultant, Haven of Hope Sister Annie Skau Holistic Care Centre)

• Facilitating Effective ACP Communication
• Dr. Chetna Malhotra (Associate Professor, Lien Centre for Palliative Care, Program in Health Services and Systems Research, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore)
• Dr. Cheng-pei Lin (Assistant Professor, Institution of Community Health Care, College of Nursing, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University)
• Professor Helen Chan (Professor, The Nethersole School of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

12:45pm

Lunch (By invitation only)

2:20pm

Keynote Presentation 3 (Theme: Collaboration - Integrating Palliative Care into Primary Health Care)
Professor Peter Tanuseputro
Clinical Professor, Department of Family Medicine & Primary Care, School of Clinical Medicine,
LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong

3:00pm

Keynote Presentation 4 (Theme: Compassionate Community in Global Perspective of EoLC)
Professor Allan Kellehear
Professor, Department of Social Work, Education and Community Wellbeing
Northumbria University, United Kingdom

3:40pm

Dialogue on Foster Compassionate Community through Primary Care
Professor Peter Tanuseputro

  Professor Allan Kellehear

4:00pm

Tea Break

4:30pm -
5:45pm

Breakout Session 2

Free Paper Parallel Sessions

Invited Symposium 3

Invited Symposium 4

Invited Symposium 5

Session 4

Session 5

• Compassionate Community and Volunteering in EoLC
• Professor Vivian Lou (Co-Director, JCECC Project)

• Understanding Death Literacy: Why It Matters?
• Professor Ying-wei Wang (Director, Centre for Palliative Care and Medical Consultant, Hualien Tzuchi Hospital, Taiwan)

• Strategies for Seamless Care Coordination in EoLC
• Dr. Annie Kwok (Chairman, The Central Committee on Palliative Care of the Hospital Authority)
• Dr. Tricia Yung (Senior Consultant, Department of Palliative Medicine, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore; Medical Director, Dover Park Hospice, Singapore)