Speakers & Moderators

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Arnaudo Filippo, multidisciplinary creative and disability rights activist who combines design, storytelling and humor to promote inclusion, challenge stereotypes, and foster accessible and socially inclusive communication, Italy

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Benini Franca, 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

Baker Justin N., 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

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Carter Brian S., 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

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Doherty Megan, MD FRCPC (Pediatrics, Palliative Medicine) MMEd, Two Worlds Cancer Collaboration Foundation, Canada; Associate Professor, University of Ottawa, Canada

Dussel Veronica, MD, MPH, Assistant Investigator, Pediatric Palliative Care Research, Mass General Brigham for Children, Boston, MA, USA and Board of Directors, International Association of Hospice and Palliative Care (IAHPC)

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

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Ferro Diana, PhD, ABAIM, MS – Predictive and Preventive Medicine, Research Unit Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù – Rome, Italy

Friedrichsdorf Stefan J., MD, FAAP, FAAHPM. Elisa and Marc Stad Professor in Pediatric Pain Medicine, Palliative Care and Integrative Medicine, University of California at San Francisco. UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals, USA

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

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

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Harrop Emily, MBBS BSc DCH FRCPCH PhD Dip Pal Med (Paed), Consultant in Paediatric Palliative Care and Medical Director, Helen & Douglas House Honorary Consultant Oxford University Hospitals, UK

Hauer Julie, MD, FAAP, FAAHPM, Boston Children’s Hospital, Palliative Care and Complex Care, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

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

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Mendes Joana, Adjunt Professor Department of Pediatric and Child Health Nursing- School of Nursing of the University of Lisbon and researcher at the nursing research innovation and development Centre of LPortugal

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Nespral Alejandro, Pediatric Palliative Care, Bariloche Zonal Hospital, Pediatric Service,Cultura Paliativa, CEO. Grief in Schools Project, General Coordinator, Argentina

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Owens Judith, MD, MPH, FAAP, Pediatric Sleep Program, Boston Children’s Hospital. Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston Massachusetts, USA

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Siden Harold, MD, MHSc, Canuck Place Children’s Hospice and BC Children’s Hospital.  Clinical Professor, Division of Pediatric Palliative Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

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Toro-Pérez Daniel, PhD, MS, Psychology Program Coordinator, Pediatric Palliative and Complex Care Unit, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu Barcelona, Spain

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Wolfe Joanne, MD MPH, MGB Chair of Pediatrics at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital and is the Charles Wilder Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. Pediatric Palliative Care Clinician and co-leads the PPC-IDEA lab focused on easing suffering and promoting wellbeing in seriously ill children and their families USA

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Zandali Federica e Matteo, Lavinia’s parents who suffered from mucolipidosid type 2, Italy