SPAEN Annual Conference HYBRID 2022

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2022 HYBRID SPAEN Annual Conference, June 24-26, 2022 in Frankfurt/Germany

The SPAEN Annual Conference 2022 was held as a hybrid event from 24-26 June 2022 in Frankfurt, Germany. For the first time since the start of the pandemic in March 2020, the event took place as a face-2-face meeting, allowing a limited number of participants to meet in person, to exchange experiences, chat and be part of the community again. Those who could not or would not travel were able to actively participate at the meeting and all the session online.

The two-day conference was again full of learning about medical topics, research and important advcoacy topics such as Drug Repurposing, Sarcoma Centers of Excellence or Quality of Life in Sarcomas. Recordings of the sessions will be accessible here soon.

Find the full agenda here as pdf for download.

The contributions of the conference - see the recordings

Day 1 (24.06.2022)

 

Day 2 (25.06.2022)

Room: Soft Tissue Sarcoma
Room: GIST
Room: Bone Sarcoma 

 

Day 3 (26.06.2022)

Sarcoma Centers/Networks of Excellence - a discussion, moderated by Denise Reinke (USA).

 

Advocacy in Action: 2 groups awarded in 2021/22

During the conference, the award ceremony for the “SPAEN Advocacy in Action Award 2021” were held: 11 projects were entered and again showed impressively how advocacy can change and improve the situation for patients. Denise Reinke, newly elected board member led the award ceremony and emphasized that all entries were fantastic! An independent jury finally decided on the winners:

  • Sarcoma UK in the category of “traditional projects” for their project “Launch of Sarcoma UK’s Research Patient Involvement Programme”
  • The Sachin Sarcoma Society, India, in the category of “Innovative COVID-related projects” for their project “Spreading Awareness and Building Companionship among Desmoid Tumor Patients”

SPAEN congratulates the winners, but also all groups that handed in a submission for their outstanding work.

Read more about winning projects here.

Annual General Meeting: Change of statutes & election of board members

UD4 0351Additionally, the Annual General Meeting was held: It was decided by the membership that SPAEN will be called Sarcoma Patients Advocacy Global Network (SPAGN) to give more credit to the organization’s global work. More information can be found here: SPAEN becomes SPAGN.

We also congratulate the former and now again newly elected board members Markus Wartenberg from “Deutsche Sarkom-Stiftung” (German Sarcoma Foundation), who was also confirmed as co-chair, Christina Baumgarten from “SOS Desmoid”, Germany, Kai Pilgermann from “Deutsche Sarkom-Stiftung” (German Sarcoma Foundation), Germany and newly elected board member Denise Reinke, USA.

We thank Annika Laakso, Finland for her service to the board over the last 4 years.

 

SPAEN/SPAGN is looking forward to another year with new and ongoing projects, more inspiring ideas and new approaches and fruitful input from both “old” and the new groups.

Any questions? Please contact us at info@sarcoma-patients.org