Track 1: Neuro-Palliative Care


Dr Claudia Chou
Assistant Professor of Neurology; Faculty Hospice & Palliative Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
Dr Rita Caroline Crooms
Instructor Neurology, Geriatrics, Pall Med, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, USA
Dr Audrey Foster-Barber
Professor of Neurology & Paediatrics, University of California & Benioff Children's Hospital, San Francisco, USA
Dr Stefan Lorenzl
Chief Physician, Neurology & Palliative Care, Institute of Pall Med, Institute of Nursing Science & Practice, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria
Dr Roop Gursahani
Consultant Neurologist & Epileptologist, P.D.Hinduja National Hospital, Mumbai
Dr Sheffali Gulati
Professor and Chief of the Child Neurology Division, Department of Paediatrics, AIIMS, New Delhi
Dr Rajinder K Dhamija
Professor of Neurology and Director, IHBAS, New Delhi
Dr Viraj Sanghi
Pediatric Neurologist, SRCC Children's Hospital, Narayana Health, Mumbai
Dr Prafulla Shembalkar
Director, Getwell Hospital and Research Institute, Nagpur
Track 2: Renal – Palliative Care


Dr Frank Brennan
Palliative Care Physician, Department of Nephrology, St. George Hospital, Sydney, Australia
Dr Sara Davison
Professor, Division of Nephrology and Immunology, Department of Medicine, Director, Kidney Supportive Care Research Group, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Dr Mark Brown
Consultant Nephrologist, St. George & Sutherland Clinical School, Sydney, Australia
Dr Peace Bagasha
Specialist Nephrologist, Mulago National Referral Hospital, Kampala, Uganda
Dr M. K. Mani
Retired Nephrologist, Padma Bhushan, Dhanvantari, and the Rabindranath Tagore Awardee,Chennai, India
Dr Vivekanand Jha
Executive Director, The George Institute of Global Health, India Chair, Global Kidney Health, Imperial College, London, UK
Dr Manisha Sahay
Professor and Head, Department of Nephrology, Osmania Medical college and hospital, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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
Dr. Camilla Zimmermann
Head, Division of Palliative Care, University Health Network, Princess Margaret Hospital
Dr. Megan Doherty
Associate Professor, Program Director, Pediatric Palliative Care Fellowship Program, University of Ottawa, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Canada
Dr Frank D. Ferris
Associate Program Director, Palliative Medicine, Ohio Health, Columbus, Ohio, USA
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
Dr Raghu S Thota
Professor, Palliative Medicine, Department of Palliative Medicine, Tata Memorial Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai
Dr Santhosh Kumar Devadas
Associate Professor of MedicalOncology and Chief Bone marrow Transplant Physician, Ramaiah Medical College and Hospital
Dr Jenifer Jeba. S
Professor and Head, Christian Medical College Hospital, Vellore. Honorary Senior Lecturer, School of Medicine, Cardiff University
Dr K. V. Ganpathy
CEO- JASCAP & Volunteer Counselor – Dept of Palliative Medicines, Tata Memorial Hospital
Dr Vijay Patil
Professor, Department of Medical Oncology, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai
Track 4: Respiratory – Palliative Care
Geraldine Burge
ILD Specialist nurse, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust
Joseph Clark
Research Fellow in Palliative Care
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
Dr Rajam K Iyer
Pulmonologist And Palliative Care Physician, P.D. Hinduja Hospital and Bhatia Hospital, Mumbai
Dr Sujeet Rajan
Consultant, Department Of Respiratory Medicine, Bombay Hospital And Medical Research Centre
Dr Barathi Bakthavatsalu
Senior consultant
Lakshmi pain and palliative Trust
Chennai
Dr Sanjeev Nair
Assistant Professor Department Of Pulmonary Medicine Government Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram
Dr Ponnissery Jayarajan
Specialist In Palliative Medicine, P.D. Hinduja, Hospital, Mumbai
Dr. Raj K Mani
Ceo (Medical Services) & Chairman, Critical Care, Pulmonology & Sleep Medicine, Nayati Healthcare & Research Pvt. Ltd.
Dhvani Mehta
Co-Founder And Lead, Health Vidhi Centre For Legal Policy, New Delhi
Track 5: ICU – Palliative Care
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
Dr Stephen Connor
Executive Director, Worldwide Hospice and Palliative Care Alliance (WHPCA), UK
Dr Monica Gulati
Senior Consultant, Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Ng Teng Fong General Hospital, Singapore
Dr Shivakumar Iyer
Professor & Head, Department of Critical care Medicine, Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University Medical College & Bharati Hospital, Pune, India
Dr Raj K Mani
Director Clinical services and Head, Pulmonology and Critical Care, Yashoda Hospital, Kaushambi Ghaziabad, UP
Dhvani Mehta
Rhodes Scholar and Lead for Health Law in Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy Delhi
Dr Pradeep Rangappa
 
Dr Ramesh Venkataraman
Consultant, Department of Critical Care Medicine, Apollo Hospitals, Chennai, India
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
Dr Dio Kavalieratos
Associate Professor and Director of Research, Emory University
Dr David Hui
Director of Supportive & Palliative Care Research, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
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
Dr Padmanabha Kamath
Professor, Department of Cardiology, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, India
Dr Nitish Naik
 
Dr Sandeep Seth
Professor Cardiology, AIIMS Delhi
Dr Ranjan Shetty
 
Dr Deepak Krishnamurthy
 
Dr Anuja Pandit
Assistant Professor, Dept of Onco-Anesthesia and Palliative Medicine, National Cancer Institute,A.I.I.M.S., New Delhi
Dr Seema Mishra
 
Dr Santosh K Chaturvedi
Consultant Psychiatrist, Former Dean & Senior Professor of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health & Neurosciences, Bangalore, India
Sister Hanife
Honorary Head, trainer, and mentor for ELNEC USA in INDIA Nurse Education Coordinator and faculty IAPC
Dr Puneet Rathore
Associate Consultant Institution: Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi
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
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
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
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
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
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
Prof. John Ellershaw
Head of the Palliative Care Unit, Supratheme Lead for Core Skills, School of Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Dr. Susie Wilkinson
Executive Director Centre for Communication Skills, International Liaison Lead Palliative Care Unit, Honorary Fellow, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Dr. Stephen Mason
RD Lead, Palliative Care Unit, School of Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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.
Dr Jeremy Johnson
Emeritus Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Chief Mentor, Karunashraya, Bengaluru, India
Dr Amy Raichur
Palliative Care Consultant - Bangalore Baptist Hospital, Bengaluru, India
Dr Babita Varkey
Associate Medical Director, Karunashraya, Bengaluru, India
Dr Krithika S Rao
Assistant Professor, Department of Palliative Medicine and Supportive Care, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal
Track 9: Palliative Care Education
Prof. Max Watson
Director Project ECHO Hospice UK, London; Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Western Trust, Enniskillen; Visiting Professor, University of Ulster, Belfast, UK
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
Dr. Nikki Pease
Consultant in Palliative Medicine and Supportive Care, Velindre Cancer Centre, Wales, UK
Dr. Fiona Rawlinson
Postgraduate Course Director, Cardiff University School of Medicine, Cardiff, Wales, UK
Dr. Jo Hayes
Medical Director, Marie Curie Hospice Cardiff and the Vale, Wales, UK