Sofia Bunge, MD

Physician, Programa Argentino de Medicina
Paliativa- Fundación FEMEBA
Buenos Aires, Argentina

E-mail: sofiabunge@ymail.com
Skype: sofiabunge

Dr. Sofia Bunge is an attending physician in the Palliative Care Unit, Tornú Hospital, Programa Argentino De Medicina Paliativa Fundacion Femeba (PAMP-FF) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is the Education Coordinator of the PAMP-FF. She is also the Medical Director of Hospice Casa de la Bondad, Manos Abiertas Foundation, Buenos Aires. Her interests include increasing the understanding of palliative care among healthcare professionals in Argentina.

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Other Appointments

Clinical Professor “Palliative Care”, Medicine School, Austral University. Buenos Aires, Argentina
Coordinator, Palliative Care Long Distance Courses, E-learning, PAMP-FF
Coordinator, Post Graduate Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Course, Bioethics Program, PAMP-FF, FLACSO (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales), Buenos Aires, Argentina
Teacher, Department of Humanism and Bioethics, School of Medicine, Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, UNICEN, Olavarría, Argentina
Coordinator and Teacher, Palliative Care Bus Rounds, “Curso en Colectivo” CeC, PAMP-FF, Argentina
Member, Palliative Care Advisory Board of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), Argentina

Key Accomplishments

Collaborated with the development and implementation of the Palliative Care Grants Program for doctors and nurses of the Argentinean National Cancer Institute, 2011
Developed and implemented together with Dr Bretolino,M and Dr Wenk,R. the Palliative Care curriculum, Austral University, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2010
Consultant, Manos Abiertas Foundation, helped found the Hospice Casa de la Bondad, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2009

Education / Honors

Leader, International Palliative Care Leadership Development Initiative, The Institute for Palliative Medicine at San Diego Hospice, San Diego, CA, USA, 2010-2011
Physician in Palliative Medicine, Re Certification, July 2011
Consejo de Certificación de la Academia Nacional de Medicina. Asociación Argentina de Medicina y Cuidados Paliativos, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2011
Consejo de Certificación de Profesional Médicos – Academia Nacional de Medicina. Asociación,Argentina de Medicina y Cuidados Paliativos, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2005
Certification in Palliative Medicine, National Academy of Medicine, 2005
Specialist in Geriatrics and Gerontology, Argentine Association of Medicine. Argentine Society of Geriatrics and Gerontology, 2002
Specialist in Internal Medicine, British Hospital Residency, University of Buenos Aires, Faculty of Medicine, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2000
Post Graduate Course in Palliative Medicine, Foundation FEMEBA, University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1999
Medical Degree, University of Buenos Aires, Faculty of Medicine (UBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1996

Key Publications
Journal articles

Bunge S., Vignaroli E. , Cullen C. , Rodriguez A. , Saravia J. Bertolino M., Wenk R. E- learning Palliative Care Program in Latin America:Improvements in Knowledge and Comfort. Programa Argentino de Medicina Paliativa-Fundación FEMEBA, Argentina. American Association for Cancer Education Meeting, Buffalo, New York. 2nd place poster prize, 2011
Rodríguez A; Bertolino M; Bunge S; Rodríguez Danussi I, Farías G.Survey of Diagnostic Information and Decision Making in Patients in a General Hospital. IV Congreso de la Asociación Latinoamericana de Cuidados Paliativos,I Congreso de la Sociedad Peruana de Cuidados Paliativos, Lima, Perú 3rd Prize Poster “Dame Cicely Saunders”, ALCP, March, 2008

Books

Palma A, Taboada P, Nervi F. (2010) editores. “Medicina Paliativa y Cuidados Continuos” Manejo de síntomas gastrointestinales, constipación, diarrea, náuseas, vómitos y oclusión intestinal. Alejandra Rodríguez, Sofía Bunge y Mariela Bertolino, Ediciones Universidad Católica de Chile

Key Presentations

Bunge, S. Effective Education Strategies: Palliative Care on Wheels, American Association for Cancer Education Meeting, Buffalo, New York, 2011
Bunge,S. Undergraduate Education in Argentina. V Latin American Congress on Palliative Care, Argentina, 2010