Scientific Days 2025
The first day will give the floor to young researchers and focus on the present and future of palliative care in France, the role of palliative care physicians and the place of relatives. The second day will be organized around three main themes: law, pediatrics and suicides at the end of life. Several speakers from abroad will take the floor during these two days, bringing an international perspective to the discussions.
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How to get to the symposium
Amphithéâtre Laroque
Ministère de la Santé, des Familles, de l'Autonomie et des Personnes handicapées
14 avenue Duquesne, 75350 Paris
Young researchers' day
Monday, December 15
8:45am: Welcome
Animation: Clémence GUILLERMAIN, member of the Bureau of the National Platform for End-of-Life Research.
9:20 am: Introduction by Clémence GUILLERMAIN and Guillaume ECONOMOS, young researchers' representatives on the Platform board.
Session 1: Palliative care in France: today and tomorrow
9:30-11am
- Targeted referral criteria for metastatic cancer patients to palliative care teams: prevalence and implications, BESACE study, a multicenter cross-sectional study
Marine SAHUT D'IZARN, hospital practitioner, Équipe mobile de soins de support et médecine palliative, Centre hospitalier de Versailles. Doctoral student in public health at the Centre de recherche en Épidémiologie et Santé des Populations, U1018 Inserm, Université Paris Saclay, Université de Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines. - Obstacles to the implementation of continuous sedative practices in the terminal palliative phase at home: revue réaliste de littérature
Gaëtan PITON GERMES, hospital practitioner, Palliative Care Unit and Mobile Team at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) de Brest, Master 2 student at Université Pari-Est Créteil, Laboratoire Epicene U1219 (Inserm - Université de Bordeaux). - When innovation meets care: how new therapies redefine pediatric palliative approaches in the treatment of spinal muscular atrophy according to French medical specialists
Marie-Liesse GUENEE, master 2 student at Université Paris-Est Créteil, Equipe de soins palliatifs pédiatriques, de ressources et d'accompagnement (ESPPéRA), Centre Léon Bérard, Lyon.
Posters session
11:15 - 12:00
Cf. box below
Session 2: The role of physicians in palliative care
12:00 -13:00
- When you understand what it's for, the pill goes down better: DEprescribing in PALliative cancer care: patients' perceptions - A qualitative study
Simon PRAMPART-FAUVET, master 2 student at Université Paris Est Créteil, laboratory methodS in Patient-centered outcomes & HEalth ResEarch (SPHERE) UMR 1246 Universités de Nantes et Tours - Inserm. - Considering and announcing a death can be learned: a hybrid training course for medical students
Daphné PRIEUR-DREVON, MD, university clinical supervisor - hospital assistant, Master 2 student at Université Paris Est Créteil, Institut des neurosciences cellulaires et intégratives (INCI), UPR 3212.
1:15-2:15 pm Lunch break
Session 3: The place of relatives in palliative care and the experience of bereavement
2:30-3:30 pm
- Metaphor in Flemish parents' accounts of perinatal loss
Eline PUT, phD student at the University of Lille, Savoirs, textes, langages (STL) UMR 8163 - CNRS laboratory - APSY-SED study: Psychological adjustment of relatives and healthcare professionals during the introduction of continuous deep sedation
Marie LOCATELLI, doctoral researcher at Université Paris Cité, Laboratoire de psychopathologie et processus de santé (LPPS - UR4057).
Roundtable
3:45pm-4:30pm: A look back at different career paths after a PhD
Animation: Clémence GUILLERMAIN, philosopher, post-doctoral researcher at Nantes Université, UAR 3491 Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Ange Guépin.
- Joaquim PRUD'HOMM, MD, PhD, contract hospital practitioner in an acute geriatrics unit at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) de Rennes, post-doctoral fellow at UR12 (INED), Aubervilliers.
- Rozenn LE BERRE, lecturer at the Centre for Medical Ethics at the Catholic University of Lille
- Sofia CARRION-FALGARONA, consultant at Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris.
- François CHAUMIER, PU-PH in palliative medicine at the University of Tours, head of the mobile palliative care team 37 at the Centre hospitalier régional universitaire (CHRU) de Tours, researcher in the methodS in Patient-centered outcomes & HEatlth REsearch (SPHERE) team, UMR 1246 Inserm - Université de Nantes - Université de Tours.
4:30pm -Pause
Ciné - débat
4:45-6:45pm Projection of the documentary Vivre c'est vieillir
then exchange with:
Blandine DELCROIX, author and director
Aline CHAMAHIAN, senior lecturer in sociology, Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, Sciences Po Aix, attached to Mesopolhis; associate researcher at CeRIES, ULR 3589 University of Lille.
6:45 p.m. A convivial moment
Scientific day
Tuesday, December 16
Facilitator: Aurore PERNIN, head of the Plateforme nationale pour la fin de vie
8:00 am: Welcome
8:45-9:00 am: Introduction by Régis AUBRY, coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Research Program on the End of Life,Sarah CARVALLO, co-chair of the National Platform for Research on the End of Life, and Franck MOUTHON, executive director of the Agency for Health Research Programs.
Keynote speakers
9:00-9:40 am
- Global development of palliative care: lessons from the last decade and challenges ahead.
Marie-Charlotte BOUËSSEAU, member of the Comité consultatif national d'éthique (CCNE), researcher associated with the ATLANTES program, Global Observatory of Palliative Care, University of Navarre (Spain) - The ATLANTES project for a global observatory of palliative care: recent data and prospects for research.
Vilma TRIPODORO, Doctor of Palliative Medicine, researcher at the Institute of Culture and Society, University of Navarre (Spain).
Thematic session: Suicides at the end of life
9:40-11:10
Session chairs: Léonor FASSE, clinical psychologist at the Psycho-Oncology Unit of Gustave Roussy Hospital, HDR lecturer at Université Paris Cité, Institut de Psychologie, Laboratoire de Psychopathologie et Processus de santé.
and Sophie PENNEC, co-president of the scientific council of the Plateforme nationale pour la recherche sur la fin de vie, director of research at the Institut national d'études démographiques (INED), associate professor at The Australian National University (Australia)
- Elderly malaise and suicide: sociological perspective
Ingrid VOLÉRY, Professor of Sociology at the University of Lorraine, Territoire, travail, âge et santé (TETRAS) laboratory.
Frédéric BALARD, lecturer at the University of Lorraine, TETRAS laboratory. - A suicide, suicides? Reflections on assisted dying and "ordinary""
Laurent MICHAUD, Privat-Docent and Senior Lecturer and Clinical Researcher, Senior Physician, Liaison Psychiatry Service, Department of Psychiatry, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois and University of Lausanne (Switzerland) - Living a bereavement in the context of assisted dying: psychological perspective
Deborah UMMEL, PhD, psychologist and associate professor, Institut de psychologie de l'Université de Lausanne (Switzerland) and Département de psychoéducation de l'Université de Sherbrooke (Québec, Canada).
11:10-11:30am: Break
Thematic session Research, law and end of life
11:30am-1:00pm
Session chairs: Matthieu LE DORZE, co-chairman of the scientific council of the National Platform for End-of-Life Research, hospital practitioner in the Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care at Saint-Louis - Lariboisière University Hospitals, Coordination Hospitalière des Prélèvements d'Organes et de Tissus, Cardiovascular markers in stressed conditions unit (MASCOT) UMR 942 Inserm.
Martine Le FRIANT, professor of law at Avignon University.
and Marie-Laure MOQUET-ANGER, agrégée in public law, professor emeritus at Rennes University, honorary president of the French Association of Health Law (AFDS).
- Comparative law to the rescue of end-of-life research
Guillaume ROUSSET, professor of law at Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, director of the Centre de recherche en droit et management des services (CRDMS) and member of the Institut de formation et de recherche sur les organisations sanitaires et sociales (IFROSS). - Actualités du modèle français
Marie-Laure MOQUET-ANGER, agrégée de droit public, professor emeritus at the University of Rennes, honorary president of the Association française de droit de la santé (AFDS). - L'effet des droits fondamentaux sur l'aide à mourir
Xavier BIOY, professeur agrégé en droit public, vice-doyen de l'École de droit de Toulouse, Université Toulouse Capitole.
1:15pm-2:15pm: Lunch break
Pediatrics themed session
2:30pm-4:00pm
Session chairs: Adrien EVIN, co-chairman of the National Platform for End-of-Life Research, university lecturer and hospital practitioner in palliative medicine at the palliative and support care department of the Centre hospitalier universitaire (CHU) de Nantes.
Delphine BALIZET, clinical psychologist at the Équipe ressource régionale en soins palliatifs pédiatriques (ERRSPP) at the Centre hospitalier universitaire (CHU) de Besançon, vice-secretary of the Société française de soins palliatifs pédiatriques (2SPP).
and Anne Marie MOTTAZ, nurse nursery nurse, teaching health executive, PhD in education and training sciences, associate researcher at the Laboratoire interdisciplinaire de recherche en didactique, éducation et formation (Lirdef) at the University of Montpellier.
- Complexity in pediatric palliative care: insights from the medical point of view and associated issues
Victoria CORVEST, hospital doctor in charge of the intra- and extra-hospital pediatric palliative care mobile team in the canton of Vaud (Switzerland). - De l'usage des concepts d'autonomie, de discernement, et de volonté du mineur en situation palliative, en France, en 2024
Florence JOUNIS-JAHAN, nurse-periculturist with ONDINE, regional pediatric palliative care resource team (ERRSPP) Pays de la Loire at Nantes University Hospital, vice-president of the French Society for Pediatric Palliative Care (2SPP). - The importance of naming in the interaction between patients, caregivers and carers in the context of perinatal bereavement
Giuditta CALIENDO, maître de conférences HDR at the University of Lille and at the Savoir, textes, langage (STL) UMR 8163 - CNRS, University of Lille.
Catherine RUCHON, associate researcher at the Savoir, textes, langage (STL) UMR 8163 - CNRS laboratory, University of Lille.
Exchanges and conclusion
4pm-5pm
- Actualities and perspectives of the National Platform for End-of-Life Research
Aurore PERNIN, head of the National Platform for End-of-Life Research. - Presentation by a representative of the Direction générale de l'offre de soins (DGOS)
POSTERS
- Caregivers' representations of the patient's mouth at the end of life
Marie SIMON, pain and palliative care resource nurse at the Pain Assessment and Treatment Center - Palliative Medicine at Hôpital Necker Enfants malades - Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris. Center - Université Paris Cité.
Stéphanie LOUICHE, nursery nurse with the Mobile Palliative Care Team at Saint Brieuc Hospital, Groupement hospitaler territoire d'Armor,
Clémence ALDEBERT, assistant specialist, Equipe mobile pédiatrique de soins palliatifs, accompagnement, soins de support, Hôpital Trousseau, Paris.
Elodie DAUNEAU, clinical psychologist in the Équipe territoriale de soins palliatifs, Centre hospitalier de Rochefort.
Morgane MESPLEDE, PhD student at Université Paris Cité, Laboratoire de psychopathologie et processus de santé, (LLPPS), UR 4057.
Emilia ALVES, clinical psychologist, doctoral student at Université Paris Cité. Psychopathology and Health Processes Laboratory (LLPPS), UR 4057.
Khaoula CHERQAOUI, clinical psychologist, doctoral student at the University of Poitiers, Cliniques actuelles de psychanalyse laboratory (RPpsy Poitiers CAPS)
Benjamin WYPLOSZ, hospital practitioner in home hospitalization, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris.
All these posters will be available for consultation on a digital terminal in the lobby of the Salle Laroque. The first five will be the subject of an oral communication on December 15 from 11am to 12pm.