Organisation

Scientific Committee Committee German-Speaking Countries Committee Swiss Programme Committee PHPCI Academy Committee City Programme Local Organizing Committee Volunteers / Helfer:innen

Local Organizing Committee

Steffen Eychmüller

Steffen Eychmüller is a palliative care physician since more than 20 years. Specialized in Internal medicine, psychosomatics and psychotherapy he learned from several stays in Australia how to run a regional palliative care as well as an academic center in this field. He led the Center for Palliative Care at the Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen from 1999 to 2011 and built up the University Center for Palliative Care at the University Hospital of Bern, Switzerland from 2012, taking over the first professorship for palliative medicine at the University of Bern in 2016. Inspired from a collaboration with Kerala, India, he started to co-create compassionate communities in 2008 in the Eastern part of Switzerland, followed by the compassionate city of Bern, the Swiss capital, in 2020.

Sibylle Felber

Sibylle Jeanine Felber is a health communication scientist and scientific collaborator at the University Center for Palliative Care, University Hospital Bern and University of Bern. She is involved in research projects and educational interventions targeting talking about dying and death, advance care planning and compassionate care on an interpersonal (healthcare professionals, patients, relatives) and public health level. Communication is her passion - providing an essential basis for building bridges between people, topics, interests and even between the beginning and the end of life!

Monika Hagemann

Dr Monika Hagemann is a health scientist at the University Center for Palliative Care in Bern, Switzerland. She holds a Master's degree in economics with a specialization in health science and has earned her doctoral degree in medical science. With extensive experience in hospital and project management gained from diverse international settings, Monika brings a wealth of practical knowledge to her research endeavors. Her research is focused on the comprehensive analysis of costs within palliative care settings. She is dedicated to bridging the gap between research insights and real-world applications which underscores her passion for advancing palliative care practices.

Claudia Zürcher

Claudia Zürcher-Künzi is the managing director of palliative bern, the cantonal section of the national association for palliative care. Before, she managed a four-star superior hotel for 12 years and was responsible for the funding of the city theater Bern (Bühnen Bern) during 9 years. She is loooking forward to building bridges between professionals and the population of Berne and specifically to launch the festival activities that will take place in the city during the conference week – together with fellow campaigners of the Compassionate City Bern “Bärn treit”.