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Tomorrow, Wednesday, November 14, at the Los Jerónimos Campus of the UCAM, the International Palliative Care Congress will begin.

The event will include the participation of recognized experts in the field, such as Monsignor Renzo Pegoraro, Chancellor of the Pontifical Academy for Life;

Monsignor Mario Iceta, Bishop of Bilbao and President of the Episcopal Subcommittee for the Family and Defense of Life of the Spanish Episcopal Conference;

Filipe Almeida, director of the Department of Education and Medical Simulation of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Oporto (FMUP);

Carlo Peruselli, past-president of the Italian Palliative Care Society and scientific director of the Maruzza Lefebvre Foundation;

Kevin Brazil, professor of the Model of Care for patients with Dementia in the School of Nursing and Obstetrics, Queen's of Belfast University (Northern Ireland), among other prominent personalities in this area.

Among the topics that will be addressed in this international event include 'Fragility and death in the doctrine of the Church', 'The promotion of palliative care', 'New challenges in the treatment of pain', 'The perspective of oncological treatments versus to the development of palliative care ',' The challenge of pediatric palliative care and new responses' and 'The human perspective of the end of life'.

The inauguration of the Congress will take place tomorrow, Wednesday at 9:30 am, in the Temple of the Monastery of Los Jerónimos, with the intervention of José Luis Mendoza, president of the UCAM;

José Manuel Lorca Planes, Bishop of the Diocese of Cartagena;

and the aforementioned Monsignor Renzo Pegoraro.

Source: UCAM