Committees
Scientific Board
Franca Benini (Chair)
Consultant in Paediatric Pain and PPC,
University of Padua, Italy
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
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
Finella Craig
Consultant in PPC, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK
Kathy Foley
Medical Director International Palliative Care Initiative, Open Society Institute, New York, USA
Julie Ling
Head of Strategic Development at LauraLynn Children’s Hospice, Dublin, Ireland
Joan Marston
Chief Executive of International Children’s Palliative Care Network, South Africa
Danai Papadatou
Professor of Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Nursing, University of Athens, Greece
Domenica Taruscio
Director, National Centre for Rare Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
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
Zipporah Ali
Chief Executive Officer, National Coordinator,
Kenya Hospices and Palliative Care Association (KEHPCA),
Kenya, Africa
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
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
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
Martha Mherekumombe
Consultant in Paediatric Palliative Care,
Sydney Children’s Hospital Network,
The Children’s Hospital at Westmead,
Sydney Australia
Mary Ann 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
