Committees
Scientific Board
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Franca Benini (Chair)
Consultant in Paediatric Pain and PPC,
University of Padua, Italy
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Joanne Wolfe
(Co Chair)
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
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Myra Bluebond Langner
Professor and True Colours Chair in Palliative Care for Children and Young People, Louis Dundas Centre for Children’s Palliative Care, UCL-Institute for Child Health, London England and Board of Governors Professor Anthropology, Rutgers University, Camden NJ
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Finella Craig
Consultant in PPC, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK
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Kathy Foley
Medical Director International Palliative Care Initiative, Open Society Institute, New York, USA
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Julie Ling
Head of Strategic Development at LauraLynn Children’s Hospice, Dublin, Ireland
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Joan Marston
Chief Executive of International Children’s Palliative Care Network, South Africa
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Danai Papadatou
Professor of Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Nursing, University of Athens, Greece
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Domenica Taruscio
Director, National Centre for Rare Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
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Boris Zernikow
Director of the Vodafone Foundation Institute of Children’s Pain Therapy and PPC, Datteln and Chair of Paediatric Pain Medicine and PC, Witten/Herdecke University, Germany
INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD
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Zipporah Ali
Chief Executive Officer, National Coordinator,
Kenya Hospices and Palliative Care Association (KEHPCA),
Kenya, Africa
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Anna Garchakova
Director of the Belarusian Children’s Hospice,
Minsk, Belarus
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Ann Goldman
Paediatrician, Editor Oxford Textbook of Palliative Care for Children,
(retired) Consultant in Paediatric Palliative Care,
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children,
London, UK
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Rut J. Kiman
Head Paediatric Palliative Care Team in the Maternal-Infant Department and Senior Lecturer,
Paediatric Department of School of Medicine,
University of Buenos Aires,
Argentina
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Stephen Liben
Associate professor of Paediatrics in the Faculty of Medicine of McGill University
and Medical Director of the Montreal Children’s Hospital Paediatric Palliative Care Program.
Montreal, Canada
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Martha Mherekumombe
Consultant in Paediatric Palliative Care,
Sydney Children’s Hospital Network,
The Children’s Hospital at Westmead,
Sydney Australia
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Mary Ann Muckaden
Professor and Head of Dept. of Palliative Medicine
at the Tata Memorial Hospital in Mumbai, India
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Marcello Orzalesi
Past-Chairman and member of the Bioethics Committee of
the Italian Society of Paediatrics and of the Scientific Committee of the Maruzza Foundation, Fondazione Maruzza Lefebvre D’Ovidio Onlus, Rome, Italy