Track 1: Neuro-Palliative Care |
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Dr Claudia Chou Assistant Professor of Neurology; Faculty Hospice & Palliative Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA |
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Dr Rita Caroline Crooms Instructor Neurology, Geriatrics, Pall Med, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, USA |
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Dr Audrey Foster-Barber Professor of Neurology & Paediatrics, University of California & Benioff Children's Hospital, San Francisco, USA |
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Dr Stefan Lorenzl Chief Physician, Neurology & Palliative Care, Institute of Pall Med, Institute of Nursing Science & Practice, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria |
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Dr Roop Gursahani Consultant Neurologist & Epileptologist, P.D.Hinduja National Hospital, Mumbai |
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Dr Sheffali Gulati Professor and Chief of the Child Neurology Division, Department of Paediatrics, AIIMS, New Delhi |
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Dr Rajinder K Dhamija Professor of Neurology and Director, IHBAS, New Delhi |
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Dr Viraj Sanghi Pediatric Neurologist, SRCC Children's Hospital, Narayana Health, Mumbai |
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Dr Prafulla Shembalkar Director, Getwell Hospital and Research Institute, Nagpur |
Track 2: Renal – Palliative Care |
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Dr Frank Brennan Palliative Care Physician, Department of Nephrology, St. George Hospital, Sydney, Australia |
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Dr Sara Davison Professor, Division of Nephrology and Immunology, Department of Medicine, Director, Kidney Supportive Care Research Group, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada |
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Dr Mark Brown Consultant Nephrologist, St. George & Sutherland Clinical School, Sydney, Australia |
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Dr Peace Bagasha Specialist Nephrologist, Mulago National Referral Hospital, Kampala, Uganda |
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Dr M. K. Mani Retired Nephrologist, Padma Bhushan, Dhanvantari, and the Rabindranath Tagore Awardee,Chennai, India |
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Dr Vivekanand Jha Executive Director, The George Institute of Global Health, India Chair, Global Kidney Health, Imperial College, London, UK |
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Dr Manisha Sahay Professor and Head, Department of Nephrology, Osmania Medical college and hospital, Hyderabad, Telangana, India |
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Dr Nandini Vallath Professor & Head, Department of Pain and Palliative Medicine, St. John's National Academy of Health Science, Bengaluru |
Track 3: Oncology – Palliative Care |
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Dr. Camilla Zimmermann Head, Division of Palliative Care, University Health Network, Princess Margaret Hospital |
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Dr. Megan Doherty Associate Professor, Program Director, Pediatric Palliative Care Fellowship Program, University of Ottawa, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Canada |
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Dr Frank D. Ferris Associate Program Director, Palliative Medicine, Ohio Health, Columbus, Ohio, USA |
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Dr Ishwaria Subbiah Associate Professor, Department of Palliative, Rehabilitation and Integrative Medicine, Division of Cancer Medicine, M D Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas, Houston, USA |
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Dr Raghu S Thota Professor, Palliative Medicine, Department of Palliative Medicine, Tata Memorial Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai |
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Dr Santhosh Kumar Devadas Associate Professor of MedicalOncology and Chief Bone marrow Transplant Physician, Ramaiah Medical College and Hospital |
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Dr Jenifer Jeba. S Professor and Head, Christian Medical College Hospital, Vellore. Honorary Senior Lecturer, School of Medicine, Cardiff University |
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Dr K. V. Ganpathy CEO- JASCAP & Volunteer Counselor – Dept of Palliative Medicines, Tata Memorial Hospital |
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Dr Vijay Patil Professor, Department of Medical Oncology, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai |
Track 4: Respiratory – Palliative Care |
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Geraldine Burge ILD Specialist nurse, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust |
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Joseph Clark Research Fellow in Palliative Care |
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David Currow Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor Of Palliative And Supportive Care, Flinders University, Professor Of Palliative Medicine, University Of Technology, Sydney Associate Director (Research), Wolfson Palliative Care Research Centre, University Of Hull, England |
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Dr Rajam K Iyer Pulmonologist And Palliative Care Physician, P.D. Hinduja Hospital and Bhatia Hospital, Mumbai |
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Dr Sujeet Rajan Consultant, Department Of Respiratory Medicine, Bombay Hospital And Medical Research Centre |
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Dr Barathi Bakthavatsalu Senior consultant Lakshmi pain and palliative Trust Chennai |
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Dr Sanjeev Nair Assistant Professor Department Of Pulmonary Medicine Government Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram |
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Dr Ponnissery Jayarajan Specialist In Palliative Medicine, P.D. Hinduja, Hospital, Mumbai |
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Dr. Raj K Mani Ceo (Medical Services) & Chairman, Critical Care, Pulmonology & Sleep Medicine, Nayati Healthcare & Research Pvt. Ltd. |
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Dhvani Mehta Co-Founder And Lead, Health Vidhi Centre For Legal Policy, New Delhi |
Track 5: ICU – Palliative Care |
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Dr Mitchell Levy Professor of Medicine & Chief, Division of Critical Care, Pulmonary, and Sleep Medicine, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA |
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Dr Stephen Connor Executive Director, Worldwide Hospice and Palliative Care Alliance (WHPCA), UK |
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Dr Monica Gulati Senior Consultant, Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Ng Teng Fong General Hospital, Singapore |
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Dr Shivakumar Iyer Professor & Head, Department of Critical care Medicine, Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University Medical College & Bharati Hospital, Pune, India |
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Dr Raj K Mani Director Clinical services and Head, Pulmonology and Critical Care, Yashoda Hospital, Kaushambi Ghaziabad, UP |
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Dhvani Mehta Rhodes Scholar and Lead for Health Law in Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy Delhi |
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Dr Pradeep Rangappa |
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Dr Ramesh Venkataraman Consultant, Department of Critical Care Medicine, Apollo Hospitals, Chennai, India |
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Dr Santosh K Chaturvedi Consultant Psychiatrist, Former Dean & Senior Professor of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health & Neurosciences, Bangalore, India |
Track 6: Cardiology – Palliative Care |
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Dr Dio Kavalieratos Associate Professor and Director of Research, Emory University |
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Dr David Hui Director of Supportive & Palliative Care Research, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center |
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Dr Sushma Bhatnagar President, Indian Association of Palliative Care, Chief, Dr B. R. AInstitute Rotary Cancer Hospital, Head, National Cancer Institute, Jhajjar AlIMS, New Delhi |
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Dr Padmanabha Kamath Professor, Department of Cardiology, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, India |
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Dr Nitish Naik |
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Dr Sandeep Seth Professor Cardiology, AIIMS Delhi |
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Dr Ranjan Shetty |
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Dr Deepak Krishnamurthy |
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Dr Anuja Pandit Assistant Professor, Dept of Onco-Anesthesia and Palliative Medicine, National Cancer Institute,A.I.I.M.S., New Delhi |
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Dr Seema Mishra |
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Dr Santosh K Chaturvedi Consultant Psychiatrist, Former Dean & Senior Professor of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health & Neurosciences, Bangalore, India |
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Sister Hanife Honorary Head, trainer, and mentor for ELNEC USA in INDIA Nurse Education Coordinator and faculty IAPC |
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Dr Puneet Rathore Associate Consultant Institution: Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi |
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Dr Anita Saxena Vice Chancellor Institution: Pt BD Sharma University of Health Sciences, Rohtak, Haryana |
Track 7: How to introduce change to achieve improved integrated palliative care |
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Prof. Nancy Preston Professor of Supportive and Palliative Care, Associate Dean for Post Graduate Education in the Faculty of Health and Medicine at Lancaster University, UK, and Co-Director of the International Observatory on End-of-Life Care |
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Prof. Catherine Walshe Professor of Palliative Care and Co-Director of the International Observatory on End-of-Life Care at Lancaster University, UK, Editor-in-Chief of the journal Palliative Medicine |
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Prof. Richard Harding Herbert Dunhill Chair of Palliative Care and Rehabilitation, Vice Dean (International) of the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing Midwifery and Palliative Care, Director of the Cicely Saunders Institute, King's College London, UK, Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre of Palliative Care, Trustee of Marie Curie, and Vice Chair of the World Hospice Palliative Care Alliance |
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Prof. Lieve Van Den Block Professor of Ageing and Palliative Care at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and founding chair of the Ageing and Palliative Care Research Programme at the End-of-Life Care Research Group of the VUB and Ghent University in Belgium |
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Dr Tanja Fusi-Schmidhauser Deputy Head of the Palliative and Supportive Care Program of Southern Switzerland |
Track 8: International Research on Best Care for Dying Person |
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Prof. John Ellershaw Head of the Palliative Care Unit, Supratheme Lead for Core Skills, School of Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom |
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Dr. Susie Wilkinson Executive Director Centre for Communication Skills, International Liaison Lead Palliative Care Unit, Honorary Fellow, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom |
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Dr. Stephen Mason RD Lead, Palliative Care Unit, School of Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom |
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Dr Stanely Macaden National coordinator - Palliative Care Programme of The Christian Medical Association of India (CMAI), Honorary Palliative Care Consultant - Bangalore Baptist Hospital, Bengaluru, India. |
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Dr Jeremy Johnson Emeritus Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Chief Mentor, Karunashraya, Bengaluru, India |
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Dr Amy Raichur Palliative Care Consultant - Bangalore Baptist Hospital, Bengaluru, India |
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Dr Babita Varkey Associate Medical Director, Karunashraya, Bengaluru, India |
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Dr Krithika S Rao Assistant Professor, Department of Palliative Medicine and Supportive Care, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal |
Track 9: Palliative Care Education |
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Prof. Max Watson Director Project ECHO Hospice UK, London; Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Western Trust, Enniskillen; Visiting Professor, University of Ulster, Belfast, UK |
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Prof. Julia Downing Executive Director of the International Children's Palliative Care Network (ICPCN), Honorary Professor at Makerere University, Kampala; Visiting Professor at Edge Hill University and the University of South Wales in the UK and the University of Belgrade in Serbia; Honorary Senior Research Fellow with the Cicely Saunders Institute at King's College London, UK |
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Dr. Nikki Pease Consultant in Palliative Medicine and Supportive Care, Velindre Cancer Centre, Wales, UK |
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Dr. Fiona Rawlinson Postgraduate Course Director, Cardiff University School of Medicine, Cardiff, Wales, UK |
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Dr. Jo Hayes Medical Director, Marie Curie Hospice Cardiff and the Vale, Wales, UK |