Committees
Scientific Committee

Franca Benini
Franca Benini
Consultant in Paediatric Pain
and Palliative Care
University of
Padua
Italy

Chantal Wood
Chantal Wood (Co-chair)
Consultant in Paediatric Pain
and Palliative Care
Hôpital Robert Debré
Paris
France

Eva Bergsträsser
Eva Bergsträsser
Consultant in Oncology,
Head of PPC University Children’s Hospital
Zürich
Switzerland

Delia Birtar
Delia Birtar
Paediatric Oncologist
Paediatric Programmes Coordinator
Hospice Casa Sperantei
Brasov
Romania

Lizzi Chambers
Lizzi Chambers
Deputy Chief Executive
Together for Short Lives
Bristol
UK

Finella Craig
Finella Craig
Consultant in PPC Great Ormond Street
Hospital for Children
London
UK

Richard Hain
Richard Hain
LATCH Senior Lecturer in PPM
Lead Clinician Welsh Managed Clinical
Network for PPM Cardiff Wales
UK

Ulrika Kreicbergs
Ulrika Kreicbergs
Senior Researcher Department
of Women’s and Children’s Health
Karolinska Institutet
Stockholm
Sweden

Julie Ling
Julie Ling
HRB Research
Fellow School of Nursing
and Midwifery Trinity College,
Dublin,
Ireland

Joan Marston
Joan Marston
Chair International Children’s
Palliative Care Network (ICPCN),
Paediatric Portfolio Manager
Hospice Palliative Care Association
South Afric

Ricardo Martino Alba
Ricardo Martino Alba
Paediatric Consultant
Department of Paediatric Palliative Care
Niño Jesús University Hospital for children
Madrid
Spain

Marcello Orzalesi
Marcello Orzalesi
Paediatrician-Neonatologist Paediatric
Programmes Coordinator
Fondazione Maruzza Lefebvre D’Ovidio Onlus,
Rome
Italy

Nicola Pirozzi
Nicola Pirozzi
Head of the Emergency and Admission
Department Anesthesia and Resuscitation Unit Hospice
Casa Sperantei Bambino Gesù Paediatric Hospital
Rome
Italy

Boris Zernikov
Boris Zernikov
Director of the Vodafone Foundation Institute
of Children’s Pain Therapy and PPC Datteln.
Chair of Paediatric Pain Medicine and Palliative Care
Witten Herdecke University
Datteln
Germany
Congress Faculty

Bruno Dallapiccola
Bruno Dallapiccola
Scientific Director Bambino Gesù
Paediatric Hospital
Rome
Italy

Andreas Kostantopoulos
Andreas Kostantopoulos
President European
Paediatric Association
(pending)

Sheila Payne
Sheila Payne
President European Association
for Palliative Care
Lancaster
UK

Adriana Turriziani
Adriana Turriziani
President Italian
Palliative Care Society
Rome
Italy

Alberto G. Ugazio
Alberto G. Ugazio
President Italian Paediatric Society
Rome
Italy