AChPM Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Discipline of Palliative Medicine
Nominations close 5.00 pm AEST Friday, 31 May 2024.
The Australasian Chapter of Palliative Medicine (AChPM) awards this prize in recognition of the outstanding contribution made by a palliative medicine Fellow to the discipline.
Eligibility
A nominee must be a Fellow of the AChPM and/or RACP, nominated by another Fellow of the AChPM and/or RACP.
(All AChPM Fellows are eligible, including those in PCHD.)
Self nominations will not be accepted.
Prize
The award recipient receives a cash prize of $500 and a certificate formally presented at the Australian & New Zealand Society of Palliative Medicine (ANZSPM) Medical & Surgical Conference in September 2024.
Nominate
Before proceeding, read the terms and conditions for Awards and Prizes valued up to $5000 and notify your nominee of your intent to nominate them.
In your nomination, provide detail on the contribution your nominee may have made to palliative medicine in:
- the promotion of the specialty
- education and training
- clinical service development
- community development
- research
- policy and advocacy
- their lifetime achievement in palliative medicine
Download nomination form
Submit your nomination form and any supporting documentation in a single PDF file to foundation@racp.edu.au
The College Conflicts Of Interest Policy (PDF) and Privacy Policy apply to the prize nominees and recipient.
Selection process
All nominations received are judged by an Award Review Panel comprised of the Chapter President (or their delegate), the ANZSPM President (or their delegate) and at least one other Fellow.
Only one prize is on offer to the most outstanding nominee each year.
The prize recipient is announced by the AChPM at the biennial ANZSPM Conference and, in alternate years, at the ANZSPM Update.
The AChPM reserves the right not to award the prize if all nominations received do not meet the sufficiently high standard.
Dr Catherine D'Souza | 2022 recipient
Catherine’s first palliative care experience was in rural Tanzania as a student with the community outreach palliative care team. Following this inspirational time she began registrar training in Nottingham. She took time out to live and work in Cameroon, setting up palliative care units and overseeing the introduction of oral morphine further into the country. She has a long established interest in global palliative care and has worked as a mentor and educator in a range of settings and countries where palliative care is in development.
After her first consultant position at Sobell House in Oxford UK, Catherine relocated to New Zealand from the United Kingdom and is working as a director of Palliative Medicine and honorary clinical senior lecturer in Timaru, South Canterbury. This is a single-handed role covering hospital, community and Hospice inpatients alongside teaching and mentoring roles.
Catherine took on the role of chair of ANZSPM Aotearoa in 2020, not only the year of the pandemic, but also the year of the legalisation of assisted dying in Aotearoa. It proved to be quite a year!
In 2022, for the first time, ANZSPM joined with the other organisations in Aotearoa to form the Palliative Care Collaborative. A new organisation put together to advocate for all Palliative Care in New Zealand. We look forward to continuing the work to improve care for the dying across Aotearoa.