IPOS early bird registration fees now end on May 15th

April 24, 2017

Join the IPOS World Congress in Berlin and meet colleagues in the field of psycho-oncology from all over the world! Early registration fees are available until May 15th. See our 'Other PO events' pages for more details, and below.

Dear Members

Please see below information from our IPOS colleagues on registration and conference planning for IPOS 2017  

Program planning in full swing
The abstract submission process has ended and we are proud to report that thanks to all of you, we have received over 500 abstracts. We are now building the congress program which will contain a great variety of Abstracts appealing to Researcher, clinicians and educators. Notifications of Acceptance will be sent out on the 20th of April.

Early Bird Registration – Deadline extended!
Good news for all of you who haven’t registered for the congress yet. The deadline for early bird registration has been extended until May, 15th 2017! This gives you two additional weeks to benefit from Early Bird registration fees. Visit http://www.ipos2017.com/congress-and-social-registration.html to find all registration types and fees.

All Key Note Speakers announced
Another four speakers joined the IPOS2017 congress and completed our Key Note Speaker team. We are happy to announce the following new Key Note Speakers: Matthias Rose will be speaking about “Relevant patient-reported psychosocial outcome criteria in clinical studies”, Lonneke van de Poll-Franse about “Long term and late effects of cancer treatment”. Odette Wegwarth will present the topic of “Reckoning with risk: The implication of medical risk competence on cancer care delivery” and Paul Jacobsen will be talking about “Improving care delivery for cancer survivors”. Full descriptions for all our Key Notes can be found on http://www.ipos2017.com/keynote-speakers.html.

PSO Annual Conference News

For the PSO Annual Conference we can proudly announce the following to Key Note Speakers: Olaf v.d. Knesebeck with his Key Note about “Social determinants of health - current status and relevance for oncology/Soziale Determinanten von Gesundheit - Forschungsstand und Bezug zur Onkologie” and Susanne Singer who will be talking about “Socio-economic disparities in psycho-oncology/Sozioökonomische Ungleichheit in der Psychoonkologie”. Please note that these Key Notes are part of the PSO Annual Conference and thus will be held in German. The PSO Annual Conference is taking place on August 15th 2017. You can find all relevant information on our website by visiting: http://www.ipos2017.com/pso-annual-conference.html.