Scientific Committee

Ann Goldman – Honorary President, Paediatrician, Retired Consultant in Paediatric Palliative Care, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK

Franca Benini – Chair, Director of Paediatric Palliative Care – Pain Service Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, University of Padua, Professor of Pediatrics – Pediatric Palliative Care, University of Padua, Italy

Daniel Garros – Co-Chair, MD, University of Alberta, Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Stollery Children’s Hospital Pediatric Intensive Care Unit staff; Quality & Safety Lead Edmonton, AB Canada

Ulrika Kreicbergs – Co-Chair RN, PhD, Louis Dundas Chair of Paediatric Palliative Care for Children and Young People, Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, University College London, United Kingdom

María Avilés Martínez, RN, PhD. Assistant Professor, Department of Nursing, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain

Mercedes Bernadá, MD, Quality of life and Pediatric Palliative Care Unit, Asociación Española; Associate Professor of Pediatrics Universidad de la República, School of Medicine, Montevideo, Uruguay

Nur Elçin Boyacıoğlu, Assoc. Prof.,  Psychiatric Nurse, Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa Health Science Faculty, İstanbul, Turkey

Brian S. Carter, MD, FAAP, Division of Palliative Care & Bioethics, Children’s Mercy Hospital; Professor of Pediatrics, Chair and Sirridge Endowed Professor of Medical Humanities & Bioethics, UMKC School of Medicine, Kansas City, USA

Julia Downing, PhD, RGN. Chief Executive at International Children’s Palliative Care Network, UK

Lilia Embiruçu, MD, Palliative Care National Academy Brazil; Health Department of State of Bahia, Spiritual Department Care of Mont Serrat Hospital Bahia, Brazil

Anna Garchakova, Director of the Public Association “Charitable Children’s Hospice”, Minsk, Belarus; member of St. Jude, member of ICPCN, member of IAHPC

Julie Hauer, MD, FAAP, FAAHPM, Boston Children’s Hospital, Department of General Pediatrics and Complex Care, Assistant Professor Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

Anthony R. Herbert, MBBS, B Med Sci, FRACP, FAChPM, Paediatric Palliative Care Service, Children’s Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service. Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Nursing, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

Michelle Koh, MD, Senior Consultant and Head of Service, Paediatric Palliative Care team, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Singapore

Michelle A. Meiring, MD, FCPaeds (SA), Head of Paediatric Palliative Care Division, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Danai Papadatou, PhD, Professor Emerita of Clinical Psychology, School of Health Sciences, Nursing Dept. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Chair of Board of Directors of “Merimna”, Greece