We are pleased to announce the nomination of Mr. Alexandre Berkesse to the newly created position of Director Europe –

Marie-Pierre Codsi’s article “Changing relationships: how does patient involvement transform professional identity?” documents how partnering with patients transforms the identity of healthcare professionals.
Using ethnographic work based on 2 years of observation, she sheds light on the tensions generated by the transformation of relationships between patients and professionals, when the latter move from a bond of caregiver-patient to a role of colleagues.

Partnership is a collaborative and equal relationship between partners such as patients, members of the public, clinicians, researchers and policy makers. It is based on the mutual recognition of the complementarity of knowledge, whether scientific or experiential, i.e. derived from the experience of living with the disease.