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Shingo Ueki
President, The 23rd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Pediatric Oncology Nursing
Faculty of Medical Sciences, Department of Health Sciences, Nursing Course, Kyushu University |
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I have the honor of organizing the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Pediatric Oncology Nursing (JSPON). The theme of this Annual Meeting will be “For the Future of All Children.” My hope is that this Annual Meeting will enable us to think about how we can provide care that aims to maximize the benefit to children, and create a society in which children from all backgrounds can enjoy a mentally and physically healthy future.
This Annual Meeting is being held jointly by three organizations: the Japanese Society of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology (JSPHO), the JSPON, and the Children’s Cancer Association of Japan. As illustrated in the poster for this Annual Meeting, I believe that the image of people from many different professions and standpoints sitting in and under the same tree, all singing and playing the same music together, is a fitting picture for pediatric medicine. Multidisciplinary collaboration is essential if we are to provide reassuring medical care to children with cancer, who may have to undergo treatment for years, and their families. I hope that this Annual Meeting will be an opportunity for us to learn from many different presentations from a wide range of standpoints, and to understand each other.
I have invited expert nurses and researchers in pediatric nursing and family nursing as local members of the Program Committee. We are now planning a program that will be appealing from a range of standpoints. In this process, my motto is the cycle from clinical practice to research, and from research to clinical practice. In clinical practice we experience numerous issues and difficulties, requiring the use of highly specialist knowledge and skill on a daily basis. Converting these circumstances to the visible form of data and considering them theoretically will lead to tips for the clinical practice of tomorrow. Research is a means of clarifying these clinical questions and their resolutions, and it is only in implementing the results of such research in clinical practice that its significance becomes clear. In this Annual Meeting, I intend to include symposia and lectures that will be of interest to both clinicians and researchers, so that conversations between them will naturally emerge.
I hope that this Annual Meeting will give you the opportunity to take home specific ideas that will be useful in future, while enjoying Fukuoka’s delicious food. Despite the weekday conference dates, I look forward to meeting as many as possible of you there. |
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