Speakers & Moderators
Franca Benini
Consultant in Paediatric Pain and Palliative Care, University of Padua, Italy
Eva Bergsträsser
Consultant in Oncology, Head of Paediatric Palliative Care University Children’s Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland
Francesco Bevere
Director General of Health Planning, Italian Health Ministry, Rome, Italy
Delia Birtar
Paediatric Oncologist, Paediatric Programmes Coordinator, Hospice Casa Sperantei, Brasov, Romania
Myra Bluebond-Langner
Chair of Paediatric Palliative Care, UCL Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, United Kingdom
Lizzie Chambers
Deputy Chief Executive, Together for Short LivesBristol, United Kingdom
Finella Craig
Consultant in Paediatric Palliative Care, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, United Kingdom
Bruno Dallapiccola
Scientific Director, Bambino Gesù Hospital for Children, Rome, Italy
Franco De Conno
Honorary Director of the EAPC Onlus , Honorary President of the Research Network of the EAPC, Milano, Italy
Guido Fanelli
President of the Ministerial Commission on Acute and Chronic Pain Therapy and palliative Care, Parma, Italy
Kathleen M. Foley
Medical Director International Palliative Care Initiative, Open Society Institute, New York, USA
Stefan Friedrichsdorf
Medical Director Department of Pain Medicine, Palliative Care & Integrative Medicine, Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
Anna Garchakova
Psycologist, Director of the Belarusian Children’s Hospice, Minsk, Belarus
Barbara Gelb
Chief Executive of Together for Short Lives, United Kingdom
Benjamin Gronwald
Deputy Medical Director, Centre for Palliative Care and Paediatric Pain Therapy, University H. of Saarland, Homburg, Germany
Angela Guarino
Training in Psycho-Oncology, Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, University “La Sapienza” Rome, Italy
Richard Hain
LATCH Senior Lecturer in P. P. Medicine, Lead Clinician Welsh Managed Clinical Network for Paediatric Palliative Medicine Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
Momcilo Jankovic
Paediatric Oncologist, Head of the Outpatients Department of Paediatric Haematology, Hospital San Gerardo, Monza, Italy
Ulrika Kreicbergs
Senior Researcher Department of Women and Child Health, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Giancarlo La Marca
Director of Mass Spectrometry, Clinical Chemistry and Pharmacology Labs, Meyer Children’s Hospital, Florence, Italy
Omar Leone
President of Maruzza Association, Friuli Region, Trieste, Italy
Julie Ling
HRB Research Fellow School of Nursing and Midwifery Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
Luca Manfredini
Physician, Department of Paediatric Haematology and Oncology, Hospital G. Gaslini, Genova, Italy
Bruno Marino
Professor of Paediatrics; Director of Department of Paediatrics, “La Sapienza” University of Rome, Italy
Joan Marston
Chair of the International Children’s Palliative Care Network (ICPCN), Paediatric Portfolio Manager, Hospice P. Care Association South Africa
Ricardo Martino Alba
Paediatric Consultant, Department of Paediatric Palliative Care, Niño Jesús University Hospital for children, Madrid, Spain
Eugenio Mercuri
Medical Director, Responsible for the Department of Neuropsychiatry, Policlinico Gemelli, Rome, Italy
Danai Papadatou
Professor of Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Nursing, University of Athens, Greece
Samantha Parker
Academy Manager, Orphan Europe, Paris, France
Nicola Pirozzi
Head of the Emergency and Admission Department, Anesthesia and Resuscitation Unit, Bambino Gesù Hospital for Children, Rome, Italy
Giuseppe Profiti
President, Bambino Gesù Hospital for Children, Rome, Italy
Eduardo Quiroga Cantero
Paediatric Oncologist, Department of Paediatric Oncology, Virgen del Rocío Children’s Hospital, Seville, Spain
Gianlorenzo Scaccabarozzi
Director, Dipartimento Interaziendale della Fragilità, Provincial Healthcare Authorities, Lecco, Italy
Grazia Serantoni
Developmental Psychologist and Psychotherapist, PhD in Social Psychology and Neuroscience, Department of Psychology – University ‘La Sapienza’ Rome, Italy
Umberto Simeoni
Paediatrician – Neonatologist, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Hôpital Anne de Bretagne, Rennes, France
Domenica Taruscio
Director, National Centre for Rare Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
Alexander Tkachenko
General Director, St. Petersburg Children’s Hospice, St. Petersburg, Russia
Adriana Turriziani
President Italian Society of Palliative Care (SICP), Rome, Italy. Director “Villa Speranza” Hospice,Rome. Researcher, Oncological Radiotherapy Division, Policlinico Gemelli , Rome, Italy
Alberto G. Ugazio
President, Italian Paediatric Society. Director, Department of Paediatric Medicine, Bambino Gesù Hospital for Children, Rome, Italy
Joanne Wolfe
Director, Paediatric Palliative Care
Children’s Hospital Boston Division Chief, Paediatric Palliative Care Service
Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Chantal Wood
Consultant in Paediatric Pain and Palliative Care, Hôpital Robert Debré, Paris, France. Member of the French Association for Palliative Care; of the National College of the Teachers on Pain and of the French Pain Society and Coordinator of the Paediatric Group
Boris Zernikow
Director, Vodafone Foundation Institute of Children’s Pain Therapy and Paediatric Palliative Care, Datteln and Chair of Paediatric Pain Medicine and Palliative Care, Witten Herdecke University, Datteln, Germany
