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IPOS Xchange
April 25, 2018

IN THIS ISSUE:

  1. FIVE DAYS LEFT TO SUBMIT! Nominate someone for one of SIX prestigious IPOS awards
  2. Submit by May 6! 2018 IPOS World Congress Call for Abstracts
  3. IPOS Early Career Professionals Events at the 2018 World Congress
  4. IPOS International Cookbook of Comfort Foods from Around the World
  5. There is still time to activate your IPOS membership for 2018!

FIVE DAYS LEFT TO SUBMIT IPOS AWARD NOMINATIONS!

IPOS is now accepting nominations for SIX prestigious awards. Nominations must be received on or before April 30, 2018. Nominations are being accepting from all over the world! Nominations for 2018 awards are due by April 30, 2018.
  1. Jimmie Holland Memorial Award
    The Jimmie Holland Memorial Award honors an IPOS or psycho-oncology community member recognized for making a unique contribution considered to be a highly creative or pioneering innovation or activity that advances the field of Psycho-oncology. The award is unique in its recognition as Jimmie Holland as a pioneer and chief innovator of our time, as well as recognizes her enormous contribution as mentor.
  2. Arthur M. Sutherland Award and Memorial Lecture
    The Arthur M. Sutherland Award honors an IPOS or psycho-oncology community member with a lifetime achievement in the field of psycho-oncology. This is a late career award and recognizes sustained and distinguished output in psycho-oncology over their whole career. This is the Society’s most important award and reflects the international standing of the recipient.
  3. Bernard Fox Memorial Award
    The Bernard Fox Memorial Award honors an IPOS or psycho-oncology community member who has made an outstanding contribution in education or research to the field of psycho-oncology. The primary focus is on the academic and educational output of the nominee.
  4. Noemi Fisman Award for Lifetime Clinical Excellence
    The Noemi Fisman Award for Lifetime Clinical Excellence honors an IPOS or psycho-oncology community member in recognition of outstanding clinical contributions to the field of psycho-oncology. He/she must have served for a major proportion of his/her career as a clinician and be able to demonstrate novel, beneficial and substantial initiatives impacting directly on the care of patients and his/her families either through their own practice or practice developments.
  5. Hiroomi Kawano New Investigator Award
    The Hiroomi Kawano New Investigator Award honors a new investigator for outstanding research contributions in the field of psycho-oncology and is an early career award. Candidates must be within seven years of active work in psycho-oncology after completing his/her postgraduate, fellowship or equivalent specialist training (defined as a PhD or MD or equivalent). This award is sponsored by the Hiroomi Kawano Foundation in Japan.
  6. Society Distinguished Life Fellowship Award
    The Society Distinguished Life Fellowship Award recognizes extraordinary and notable contributions to the organization and success of IPOS. This award is only for one who has made a singular contribution to the Society and its work. The Distinguished Life Fellowship Award is limited to past or present IPOS members.

Find out more by going to https://ipos-society.org/awards/.

EXTENSION!
2018 IPOS World Congress Call for Abstracts

SUBMIT BY MAY 6, 2018 at 11:59 p.m. Hong Kong Time (offset UTC + 8)

Abstracts will be accepted for the following presentation types:

  1. Symposium Submission: 20 minute/podium presentation plus 10 minutes’ discussion (minimum 3 presentations and maximum 4 presentations)
  2. Oral Submission: 20 minute podium presentation
  3. Poster Submission: poster presentation

The IPOS 2018 program will be organized into two parallel themes. All abstracts will be allocated to either Research or Clinical/Policy. You will be asked to indicate your abstract type from the following:

  • Original Research
  • Program Evaluation
  • Clinical Case Study
  • Meta-analysis
  • Systematic Literature Review

Abstract Regulations & Guidelines - http://ipos2018.com/abstract.html

2018 IPOS World Congress Quick Links:

IPOS Early Career Professionals Events at the 2018 World Congress

This year the IPOS early career professionals in psycho-oncology (ECPP) committee will organize a number of exciting events at the conference in Hong Kong. This programme is open to all psycho-oncology early career professionals within ten years of their highest degree. All professionals such as postgraduate or PhD students, clinicians or postdocs are welcome to take part.

These events are made possible and are available for free through the support of the conference organizers and IPOS. While it is not a requirement to be an IPOS member for participation, we would like to encourage all participants to become an IPOS member. IPOS provides a reduced 25$ fee for ECPPs within three years of their highest degree as well as members-in-training (see https://ipos-society.org/apply/ for information how to apply).

Early Career Professional Events:

  • Mentoring Luncheon
  • Oral Poster Session
  • Annual ECPP Committee Meeting
  • Pre-conference workshop: Concept Development Workshop (to be confirmed)
  • ECPP Symposium: Case presentation, clinical supervision (to be confirmed)
To find out more, please go to http://www.ipos2018.com/ECP_events.html

IPOS International Cookbook of Comfort Foods from Around the World

IPOS members and non-members can now order this “multi-cultural” cookbook online for only $15 (US) in PDF format. This cookbook was first published in print format in 2015 and includes recipes from IPOS members around the World. There are more than 100 recipes from 25 countries. Sales revenue of this cookbook go towards education initiatives IPOS offers in LMI countries, namely in Africa.

To get your appetite going, here is a small sample of recipes included in the cookbook:

American Meatloaf, Borsch (Russian Beet Soup), Brazilian Pumpkin Soup, Chinese Garlic Eggplant, Cuban Picadillo, English Fruit Crumble, French Zucchini Pie Tourte Normande, Irish Soda Bread, Jewish Sweet and Sour Stuffed Cabbage, Korean Miyeok-Guk, Lithuanian Cold Beet Soup, Macedonian Dandelion Nettle Stew, Malva Pudding (South African), Nigerian Chicken-Beniseed Sesame Soup, North AfricanLamb Tagine, Persian Noodle Herb and Bean Soup, Portuguese Chocolate Salami, Racuchy (Polish Apple Pancakes), Rhumtopf (GermanDessert), Romanian Papansi, Spanish Paella Marinera, Sweet Japanese Rice Balls, Taiwan Shiitake Mushroom Soup, Tropical Egg Nog (Puerto Rico), Tourtiere (French Canadian Meat Pie), Turkish Yayla Corbasi, Vigoron (Nicaraguan Fast Food).

There is still time to activate your IPOS membership for 2018!


Have you joined the IPOS Network for 2018 yet? You can still join or renew with IPOS for 2018! Click "Register Now" to become a member for 2018.

For a complete breakdown of the benefits of membership with IPOS, please go to http://ipos-society.org/member-benefits/.
 

MEMBERSHIP CATEGORIES AND RATES:

Active Membership $140.00 US for World Bank-classified High-income/OECD countries
• CV Required with Application (can be uploaded when applying for membership online or emailed to the IPOS office within five business days of applying for membership)

Active Membership $25.00 US for World Bank-classified Low/Middle-income countries ONLY
• CV Required with Application (can be uploaded when applying for membership online or emailed to the IPOS office within five business days of applying for membership)

Associate Membership $140.00 US for World Bank-classified High-income/OECD countries
• No CV Required with Application

Associate Membership $25.00 US for World Bank-classified Low/Middle-income countries ONLY
• No CV Required with Application

Early Career Professional $25.00 US
• Practicing but within three years of final training (years 2014 to 2017 of last year of training. Individuals where last year of training was 2013 or before need to become Active or Associate members)

 Member-in-Training  $25.00 US
• Letter from Advisor/Dept. Chair required with application (can be uploaded when applying for membership online or emailed to the IPOS office within five business days of applying for membership)

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