From the 24^th to 26^th of October 2026, the Train the Trainer workshop will be held in Rome at Auditorium Antonianum.

This Train the Trainer workshop is aimed at professionals who are already experienced in providing pediatric palliative care and wish to teach Pediatric Palliative Care in their region/country or institution. This is NOT a course for pediatric clinicians hoping to learn the basics of PPC.

The professions that can participate are: doctors, nurses, psychologists, trainees, phisyotherapists and social workers.

The workshop is based on the well-established and proven training methods of EPEC, the curriculum features a high impact, widely disseminated approach that utilizes a train-the-trainer model. Participants must be fully articulate in the English Language to be able to complete the training modules.

FACULTY
Senior Lecturer:

• Stefan J. Friedrichsdorf  (course director), MD, FAAP, Elisa and Marc Stad Professor in Pediatric Pain Medicine, Palliative Care and Integrative Medicine at the University of California at San Francisco. Chief of the Division of Pediatric Pain, Palliative and Integrative Medicine, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals, USA
• Justin N. Baker, MD, FAAP, FAAHPM, Chief, Division of Quality of Life and Pediatric Palliative Care, and Deborah E. Addicott – John A. Kriewall and Elizabeth A. Haehl Family Endowed Professor of Quality of Life and Pediatric Palliative Care, Stanford School of Medicine and Stanford Medicine Children’s Health in Palo Alto, California, USA
• Jonathan Downie, MD, Consultant in Paediatric Palliative Medicine, Paediatric Supportive and Palliative Care team, Royal Hospital for Children, Glasgow, Scotland. Chair of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, Specialist Advisory Committee in Paediatric Palliative Medicine, UK
• Lucie Hrdličková, MD, Ph.D., Pediatric Supportive Care Team, University Hospital Motol, Prague, Czech Republic
• Joe El Khoury, MD, MPH, Family Medicine Specialist, Hospice and Palliative Medicine Specialist, Centre Hospitalier Public d’Hauteville, France – Balsam, The Lebanese Center for Palliative Care, Beirut, Lebanon
• Diana McIntosh, MD, Consultant in Paediatric Oncology with a specialist interest in Paediatric Palliative Medicine, Royal Hospital for Children, Glasgow. Palliative Care Lead for the National Managed Service Network for Children and Young People with Cancer, UK
• Nick Purol, MSW, LICSW, Clinical Social Worker, Pediatric Advanced Care Team, Boston Children’s Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Director of the Pediatric Social Work Fellowship, Harvard Interprofessional Palliative Care Fellowship, USA
• Joanne Wolfe, Physician in Chief, MassGeneral for Children, Chair, Department of Pediatrics Massachusetts General Hospital, Chair, Department of Pediatrics Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, USA
• Stacy Remke, LICSW, APHSW-C, Palliative Care Consultant. Clinical Teaching Specialist, Retired. School of Social Work, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

Lecturer: TBD

Please notice that EPEC- Pediatrics Train the Trainer can only be booked through the  online registration system. In connection with the registration for the Congress, or for the Congress plus Become an EPEC Pediatrics Faculty,  we offer a special price.

Participation in the 3-day training is limited to a maximum of 54 places.

Places will be allocated on a first come first served basis established by the chronological order of registration that will only be valid once full payment is received by the Secretariat.

Early booking is highly recommended.

Registration closes on 4^th October 2026.

Registration fee includes:

• 3-day live interactive conference with plenaries and small-group breakout sessions
• Instruction using a train-the-trainer format (teaching you how to teach others) pediatric pain/ symptom management and key aspects of Pediatric Palliative Care to an interdisciplinary audience using interactive lecture, cases, and role play
• Access to 18 self-study online modules on pain and symptom management, grief and bereavement, child development, and more
• Light lunch during Workshop days
• Refreshments during coffee breaks
• Certificate of participation (issued to participants completing ALL of the educational sessions)

Upon successful completion of ALL of the 24 training modules (18 online self-study modules must be completed before attending the 2 day a face-to-face conference in Rome) participants will become a certified EPEC Trainer and receive the following training materials:

• EPEC-Pediatrics teaching materials library (22 PowerPoint presentations)
• A comprehensive teaching handbook for each module to teach interdisciplinary teams
• Trigger videos

*The ‘EPEC Trainer’ certificate will be issued only to participants completing ALL of the educational sessions; attendees will be required to sign in and sign out at the beginning and end of each training day.

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