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Je suis élu dans le Board de la fédération mondiale des ADMD

medium_Board_1.JPGmedium_Logo_Conference_2006_toronto.3.JPGA l’heure où paraîtra ce post, je serais sûrement dans l’avion qui me ramène de mon séjour éclair et épuisant à Toronto pour la Conférence internationale des associations pour le droit de mourir dans la dignité.
Comme prévu, j’ai donc élu ce dimanche matin au sein du Board - les Français n'y siégeaient plus depuis 1998 - de cette organisation internationale qui réunit un million d’adhérents par l’intermédiaire de 38 associations issues de 25 pays [photo du nouveau Board].
C’est pour moi, une responsabilité importante et un immense honneur que de faire partie de la direction de cette ONG mondiale reconnue depuis longtemps par l’ONU.
Et mes débuts ont été couronnés de succès puisque j'ai obtenu que Paris organise la 18ème conférence mondiale.
Je tiens d'ailleurs à remercier Gérard Payen, le président de l'ADMD-France, qui m'a poussé et soutenu dans cette élection et cette conférence et Régine Grassano, notre trésorière, qui durant trois jours durant aura mené un lobbying constant et efficace pour "Paris 2010".

Avec la nouvelle équipe de la World Federation, - élue hier et présidée par Jacqueline Herremens, et dont je vous joins ci-dessous les biographies en anglais - il nous appartient de mobiliser toutes les forces de nos pays respectifs sur les cinq continents pour faire que le droit de mourir dans la dignité soit universellement reconnu.
Un défi à notre portée à un moment où la plupart des opinions publiques réclament de disposer de leur dernière liberté…

 

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Nominees for WF Board

Vice President

Juan Mendoza-Vega

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Nominating Society      DMD - Colombia

 

Position in Society        President

 

Biographical Statement

Doctor Mendoza-Vega is a physician, born in Chinacota, Colombia, February 15, 1933. He obtained his M.D. on April 1960 and a Neurosurgery speciality degree on December 1964 at Colombia’s National University Medical School. Neurosurgeon for the “Hospital Universitario Infantil Lorencita Villegas de Santos” at Bogota, Colombia, from 1965 to 1972, that year he entered into professorship as Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at Colegio Mayor del Rosario Medical School, Bogota, reaching the chair of Full Professor in 1990. From 1988 to 1992 he was General Director of Colombia’s Neurological Institute Foundation; from 1992 to 1994, President of the Latin American Federation of Neurosurgical Societies, FLANC. Member of Colombia’s National Academy of Medicine, he was elected Vice President from 1998 to March 2002 and the President for 2002-2004. Since March 25, 2004, he is a Corresponding Member of Colombian’s “Academia de la Lengua” and on May 14, 2004, he was made “Emeritus Professor” for del Rosario University, Bogota. Dr. Mendoza-Vega is a member of “Instituto Colombiano de Bioetica” since 1986. He has been a member of the Board of Directors, Fundacion Pro Derecho a Morir Dignamente, DMD, since 1995; he was elected President of the Board on February 2004. He is also a well know writer and journalist, member and past-president of Colombia’s Association of Science Journalists and for more than 40 years science and medicine columnist for Bogota newspaper “El Espectador”. Dr. Mendoza-Vega has been a Board Member of the World Federation since 2002.

Treasurer

Thomas “Ted” Goodwin

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Nominating Society      Final Exit Network - USA

 

Position in Society        President

 

Biographical Statement

Ted Goodwin, President & Founding Director of Final Exit Network, has advocated for the Right-to-Die movement, and has worked for broader public awareness for all end-of-life issues.  Prior to the creation of Final Exit Network in 2004, he served on the National Board of Hemlock / End-of-Life Choices, also serving as Treasurer.  Prior to this, he served as Chapter Leader of The Hemlock Society in Atlanta.
Final Exit Network believes that the time and manner of one’s own death should be controlled by the individual.  With just under 2000 members,  the Network, at this point, has more than fifty (50) trained volunteers who provide compassionate support to those suffering at the end of life.
Mr. Goodwin has also served on the Boards of The Georgia Memorial Society (Funeral Consumers Alliance) and the Cobb County (Georgia) chapter of The American Lung Association.  He has spoken nationally on The Right-to-Die, and a variety of end-of-life issues.
Mr. Goodwin’s early background encompassed management in the fields of labor relations, organization planning and executive recruitment.  Since the mid 1980s, he has owned and operated a nation-wide practice in occupational medicine.  He lives with his wife in Punta Gorda, Florida.

Secretary

Cynthia St. John

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Nominating Society      Dying With Dignity - Canada

 

Position in Society        Board Committee member

 

Biographical Statement

Cynthia St. John is currently a Director on the Board of Directors of the World Federation of Right-to-Die Societies. Previously Cynthia joined Dying With Dignity in 1995 as Vice President of the Board of Directors.  She served as Dying With Dignity's Executive Director from 1997 to 2000 before moving on to her current role as Chief Executive Officer of the Elgin-St. Thomas Health Unit in St. Thomas, Ontario – an organization that offers public health programs and services to a mostly rural population of 85,000 residents.  Cynthia is currently a Board Committee Member at Dying With Dignity, overseeing the implementation of the Counselling and Patient Advocate Program. 
Cynthia is a dynamic young woman whose compassion and commitment make her an excellent spokesperson for the right-to-die movement, and she continues to be an authoritative voice on end-of-life issues in Canada. A strong advocate of many social and political causes, Cynthia began her career at the YWCA of St. Thomas-Elgin, overseeing the women's shelter and child care facilities.  From there, Cynthia moved to YWCA Canada in Toronto, where she served as Project Director and Senior Assistant to the CEO.  She took a two-year hiatus from the YWCA to assume the role of Director of Administration for the start-up of the Yonge-Eglinton Health Centre – a community health care centre with a strong focus on serving senior citizens and adolescents.
Cynthia moved next to the Canadian Society of Association Executives (CSAE) as Manager of the Foundation for Association Research and Education and as Director of Education and Planning. Cynthia addresses numerous groups and conducts workshops on a variety of topics, including change management, board governance, strategic planning, end-of-life care and choice-in-dying.  She served as a Member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee for Sistering – Toronto’s largest community center for marginalized women.  Currently she is a Board member, World Federation of Right-to-Die Societies; Member of the Board for the United Way of St. Thomas-Elgin; Member of the Allocations and Personnel Committees of the United Way of St. Thomas-Elgin, Board Committee Member at Dying With Dignity; and Past President of the YWCA of St. Thomas-Elgin.
Cynthia is a graduate of the Voluntary Sector Leadership Management Program at York University (Toronto). 
Of her commitment to the right-to-die movement, she says, "The right to decide when and how one dies is fundamental. It is a right that is close to my heart and one I support entirely. It would be a privilege to continue to serve on the Board of the World Federation of Right to Die Societies.” Dying With Dignity is a national, membership-based charitable organization dedicated to improving the quality of dying and expanding end-of-life options in Canada.

Newsletter Editor

Faye Girsh

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Nominating Society      ERGO - USA

 

Position in Society        Board Director

 

Biographical Statement

Faye Girsh is the Past President of the Hemlock Society USA. She was editor of the Hemlock newsletter during her 6 year tenure and hosted the 2000 conference of the World Federation in Boston. Prior to that she was the founder of the Hemlock Society of San Diego and served as president and newsletter editor for 9 years. Currently she is the World Federation Newsletter Editor and has also been dubbed Roving Ambassador in relation to her 10 month world tour which just ended. Valuable connections with right-to-die groups were made. She intends to continue her travels in the future. She serves on the ERGO and Americans for Death with Dignity boards. She received her doctorate from Harvard University. She taught psychology at Morehouse College and the University of Chicago and practiced as a clinical and forensic psychologist for 18 years in San Diego where she has returned to live. During the course of her professional work she became involved with a young quadriplegic woman who wanted to die by refusing food and hydration. In 1983 that was legally impossible but this case went through the courts and has since become a right of every American. As a result of this work she found out about the Hemlock Society and hosted a national conference in which Derek Humphry spoke, among others. Taken with the ideas he expressed, she started a chapter of the Hemlock Society in San Diego in 1987 and was president until 1996 when she was invited to become Executive Director (later President) of the national Hemlock society USA in Denver CO, a position she held until 2002. She succeeded Derek Humphry who resigned from that position in 1992. For nine years she was the Editor of the San Diego Hemlock Newsletter, a bi-monthly publication. For 5½ years she edited Hemlock's Time Lines which has a circulation of 30,000. In 2000 Girsh, as head of the Hemlock Society, hosted the World Conference on Assisted Dying, the World Federation's 10th International Conference, in Boston. She has attended most of the conferences of the World. She has authored several booklets on various aspects of the right-to-die issue and has debated on national TV in the US, Australia and the United Kingdom. She serves on the Board of ERGO and was a board member of Americans for Death with Dignity.

Director (4 positions)

Michio Arakawa

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Nominating Society      Japan Society for Dying with Dignity - Japan

 

Position in Society        Vice-Chairman

 

Biographical Statement

Education: 1969               Graduated from Gifu University School of Medicine,

 

passed Medical Licensure Examination in Japan 1969-1971     Resident of Internal Medicine at Gifu University Hospital

 

       1971-1973     Resident of Family Medicine at University of Alabama-affiliated Program, Alabama Fellow of Cardiology at Albert Einstein Medical Centre and Deborah Heart and Lung Center, New Jersey

 

1973               Passed the State Board of Pennsylvania

 

1977               Obtained Doctor of Philosophy

 

Professional Experience: 1973-1978     Instructor at Gifu University Hospital

 

1978-1995     Assistant Professor at Gifu University Hospital

 

1986-1987     Researcher, The Ministry of Education, affiliated with University of

 

California at San Francisco, School of Medicine 1995-2001       Medical Advisor/Consultant, The Ministry of Health and Welfare,

 

Gifu Regional Bureau 2001-present Vice-Director of Arakawa Medical Center Publications, with Special Reference to Humane Matters 1996              Medical Practice through Friendly Communication with Patients

 

1997              Medicare for Aged People, Notification of Cancer, Hospice and Dying

 

  with Dignity

 

1997              Euthanasia, Dying with Dignity and Living Will

 

2005              Living Wills around the World

 

Professional Scientific Societies Japanese Circulation Society (Qualified Physician) Japanese Respiratory Society (Qualified Physician) Japanese Society of Applied Physiology (Director) Japanese Society of Environmental Infections (Director) Japanese Association for Infectious Diseases (Director, Qualified Physician) Japanese Society of Internal Medicine (Qualified Physician)

Director (4 positions)

Christine “Chris” Loker

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Nominating Society      Compassion & Choices - USA

 

Position in Society        Vice Chairman, National Board

 

Biographical Statement

Christine (“Chris”) Loker comes to the World Federation with strong experience in the end-of-life choice movement, in multi-national business, and in board of director participation. Chris has a long history of involvement in the end-of-life choice movement. She first became active in the movement in 1984 when she joined the Hemlock Society as a life member while in her 30’s. In her late 40’s, Chris lost her husband of 20 years to brain cancer, and found that experience motivated her to volunteer her time as a Caring Friend with End-of-Life Choices (previously the Hemlock Society). After some years as a Caring Friend, Chris was asked to join the board of directors of Compassion & Choices (previously End-of-Life Choices), and in her 50’s she has contributed to that organization in both board and committee leadership positions. Chris currently is the Vice Chairman of the National Board of Compassion & Choices, and has also continued her active Caring Friend (now called Client Support) volunteer work with dying patients. She also represented Compassion & Choices as a delegate to the World Federation meeting in Tokyo in 2004. Chris has worked for most of her career in the world of corporate multi-national business, after graduating from Stanford University and attending the Stanford Graduate School of Business. In the course of a 22-year career in corporate Human Resources, Chris was promoted to increasingly responsible positions with the multi-national firms of Levi Strauss & Company, Bank of America, and Universal Studios. She most recently was Senior Vice President of Human Resources at Charles Schwab and Company in San Francisco, managing a team of 85 employees spread across the U.S. Chris began her experience with boards of directors in 1997, as a member of the board of directors of the Levi Strauss Federal Employees’ Credit Union. Today, in addition to her current leadership position on the board of directors of Compassion & Choices, Chris sits on four other nonprofit boards of directors. She serves as the co-Chairman of the Board of one organization, and chairs the Human Resources committees of all four organizations. Chris makes her home in the San Francisco, California area, where she works with her second husband in his rare bookshop. Having left the corporate world in 2001, Chris spends her time selling antique children’s books in her own small bookshop, raising her university-aged son, and volunteering her time and expertise to organizations of great personal meaning to her.

Director (4 positions)

Karen Sanders

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Nominating Society      Dignity in Dying - England

 

Position in Society        Chair of the Board

 

Biographical Statement

I bring to the board of the World Federation of Right to Die Organisations experience of nursing the critically and terminally ill. I have been a registered nurse in the United Kingdom for over 20 years. As a Senior lecturer at a London University I am well positioned to influence academics and healthcare practitioners regarding the right to choice at the end of life and the of Voluntary Euthanasia & Assisted Dying. I have given conference papers, interviews and written articles discussing this recently and I also provided written evidence to the Select legalisation Committee on Assisted Dying in the UK and oral evidence to the Council of Europe Hearing on Euthanasia in 2003. I have considerable experience of Committees within the UK. I have been on the Dignity in Dying board for seven years and I am presently the Chair. I am Chair of the Royal College of Nursing Ethics Forum, a member of the Royal College of Nursing Ethics Advisory Panel and a member of the Intercollegiate Ethics Group (Medical and Nursing Royal Colleges within the UK). I joined the board of the Right to Die Europe in November of last year.

Director (4 positions)

Jean-Luc Romero

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Nominating Society      ADMD - France

 

Position in Society        Vice President

 

Biographical Statement

Jean-Luc Romero concurrently holds many administrative, political, associative activities which are all turned towards only one aim: the human one. He is the director of the social centre of a commune near Paris and is a member of the board of directors of the hospital “Quinze-Vingt” (Paris). On the political level, he is an elected official of the regional council of Ile-de-France, former national secretary of the Radical Party and of the UMP party, the president of the new party “Aujourd’hui Autrement”. Furthermore, he has recently been given the award of “French politician of year 2001” by readers of VSD, a leading French weekly. On the associative level, he is the president of Elus Locaux Contre le Sida - ELCS (Local representatives against AIDS). The aim of the association ELCS, which he has been presiding over since it was put together in 1995, is to mobilize and to urge French elected representatives into taking part in the fight against AIDS and into developing risk reduction policies towards drug addicts. The association gathers 12.000 representatives of all political families, among which 100 members of the Parliament. He was the first French politician – and also the only one so far – to acknowledge publicly his seropositivity, which was discovered in 1985.
His activity as a militant for the fight against aids enabled him to be appointed by the Prime Minister as a member of the National Council of AIDS, a governmental agency in charge of “delivering its opinion on all the AIDS issues within the society and proposing, along with the government, all kinds of useful proposals”. Being himself HIV positive, Jean-Luc ROMERO, has been confronted directly to the issue of death, for many years, for himself and for many friends of his who died. The question of dignity became a central topic of his considerations. This is why he became the vice-president of the Association for the right to die with dignity. ADMD now almost has 40 000 members. ADMD campaigns for the right to end one’s life in a peaceful, dignified way. This can be achieved only if one is given full freedom of choice regarding one’s last moment in the near or in the distant future. Ever since 1980, ADMD has been actively seeking the recognition for everyone’s right to receive better pain relief treatment, to refuse unwanted life-prolonging treatment, and to be granted a gentle death at one’s own request. Jean-Luc ROMERO is also the author of five books, two of which that have evoked the euthanasia for a long time.

Commentaires

  • Je suis donc le premier à officiellement te féliciter pour cette élection!

    Porte bien tes convictions au sein de cette organisation! Encore bravo de redorer un peu la blason des Français dans ce domaine...

  • FELICITATIONS !!!!!!!!
    BRAVO !!!!!

  • Félicitations pour cette énergie sans limite !

  • Bravo même si j'imagine que c'est encore une responsabilité bénévole comme vous en avez tant.
    Quand je pense que tant de gens ont des postes lucratifs et ne font rien pour les autres.
    Le bénévolat a ses limites. Reposez vous un peu!

  • Toutes mes sincères félicitations mon cher Jean-Luc...
    Bises,
    Christophe

  • Félicitation Jean-Luc.
    A bientôt,
    Christophe

  • Félicitations mon cher Jean-Luc.
    Je vous embrasse.

  • Merci pour vos amicaux messages. Ils me vont droit au coeur.
    Désolé de ne pouvoir répondre ce soir à toutes celles et à tous ceux qui m'ont adressé des e-mails de félicitaitons. Avec le décalage horaire, je suis épuisé ce soir et il est temps que je me couche car je serais à la mairie de Vigneux aux aurores demain.
    Amitiés à toutes et tous.

  • Félicitations (pas très original je sais..) c'est un beau modèle dans le militantisme d'idées que vous donnez au final.
    Je suis contente de voir que votre travail a été récompensé et recon,nu à travers cette élection qui vous permettra de continuer le combat à plus haut niveau encore, de voir aussi que vous représnetez extrêmement bien la France. Peut être que cela fera un peu bouger la position en France tout cela...
    A très bientôt
    Elodie

  • Il et 4h25 l'hrs d'aller au boulot pour moi. Ces normal qu'on t'envoye des messages d'encouragement jean-luc tu ns l'aportes aussi. Bon courage.
    Bises Frédéric

  • Bravo Jean-Luc.
    Cette nomination est une bonne chose et j'espère qu'elle t'aidera à mieux être entendu pour ce droit qui conceerne tout le monde.

  • FELICITATIONS pour votre élection, Jean Luc.
    Bon courage pour ces nouvelles responsabilités.
    Bien à vous.

  • Bravo Jean-Luc, je vous félicite !!!
    Moi je fête mes 22 ans, chacun ses bonnes nouvelles ;-)

  • Merci à toutes celles et tous ceux qui m'ont félicité par des commentaires à plusieurs posts et pour les très nombeux e-mails que j'ai reçus et auxquels je répondrai sans faute !
    Votre soutien me va droit au coeur !

  • Cher Jean-Luc,
    Je m'aperçois avec honte que j'avais oublié de te féliciter pour ton élection . Celle-ci me semblant tellement logique .
    Et bien je le fais : Toutes mes plus chaleureuses félicitations cher Jean-Luc.
    Comment procéder pour t'aider dans cette si dure tâche ? adhérer à une association ?
    A bientôt
    Pascal

  • Merci cher Pascal. Tu peux bien sûr adhérer à l'ADMD-France qui fait un travail remarquable.

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  • hi,
    good site :) Whish you good luck!

  • Salut je suis nouvelle sur le forum !! J'aime bien en passant l'idee :)

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    Merci dme repondre j'ai perdu mon ancien site ou jmamusais pour passer le temps

    A+ merci davance :)

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