Speakers & Moderators

Confirmed Speakers and Moderators

• Zipporah Ali Chief Executive Officer, National Coordinator, Kenya Hospices and Palliative Care Association (KEHPCA), Kenya, Africa
• Franca Benini Consultant in Paediatric Pain and Palliative Care, University of Padua, Italy
• 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, UK
• Elizabeth D. Blume Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School, Medical Director, Heart Failure/Transplant Program, Children’s Hospital Boston, USA
• Finella Craig Lead Consultant in Paediatric Palliative Medicine, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK
• Julia Downing Honorary Professor at Makerere University, Kampala, Vice Chair of the Scientific Committee for ICPCN, Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, King’s College London, UK
• Ross Drake Clinical Director PPC and Complex Pain Services 
Starship Children’s Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand
• Adriano Ferrari Neurologist and Physiotherapist, Professor of Rehabilitation Unit of Severe Childhood Developmental Disability-UDGEE, Hospital Santa Maria Nuova, Reggio Emilia, Italy
• Chris Feudtner Director of the department of Medical Ethics at the Philadelphia Children’s Hospital, Philadelphia, USA
• Kathleen M. Foley Medical Director of the 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, MN (USA)
  Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (USA)
• Monika Führer Professor of Paediatric Palliative Care, Children’s Palliative Care Coordination Centre, Munich University, Germany
• Anna Garchakova Director of the Belarusian Children’s Hospice, Minsk, Belarus
• 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
• Richard Hain LATCH Senior Lecturer in Paediatric Palliative Medicine, Lead Clinician Welsh Managed Clinical Network for Paediatric Palliative Medicine, Cardiff, Wales, UK
• Julie Hauer Medical Director, Seven Hills Pediatric Center Division of General Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital, USA
• Şenay Kaldirim-Celik Education and Training at the Children’s Pain and Palliative Care Centreand Youth Clinic, Datteln, Germany
• Rut J. Kiman Head Paediatric Palliative Care Team in the Maternal-Infant Department and Senior Lecturer at the  Paediatric Department School of Medicine, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
• 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
• Julie Ling Head of Strategic Development at LauraLynn Children’s Hospice, Dublin, Ireland
• Alexandra Mancini Lead Nurse for Neonatal Complex, Palliative & Bereavement Care, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Chelsea and Westminster Foundation Trust, London, UK
• Joan Marston Chief Executive of International Children’s Palliative Care Network, South Africa
• Martha Mherekumombe Consultant in Paediatric Palliative Care, Sydney Children’s Hospital Network, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney Australia
• Maryann Muckaden Professor and Head of Dept. of Palliative Medicine at the Tata Memorial Hospital in Mumbai, India
• 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
• Danai Papadatou Professor of Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Nursing, University of Athens, Greece
• Anita Simonds Consultant in Respiratory Medicine at Royal Brompton Hospital, and Professor of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine at NHLI, London, UK
• Barbara M. Sourkes Kriewall-Haehl Director of the paediatric palliative care program at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford, and associate professor of paediatrics and psychiatry at Stanford University, California, USA
• Domenica Taruscio Director, National Centre for Rare Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, 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
• 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, Germany