Augusto Caraceni Editor & Author

After graduating medical school at the Università degli Studi di Milano, Augusto Caraceni was board certified in Neurology and in Clinical Neurophysiology from the Università di Pavia. While training in pain therapy and in palliative care at the National Cancer Institute of Milan in 1986 he participated in the WHO program to test and disseminate the WHO ladder for cancer pain relief. Clinical fellow in Neurology and Palliative Care at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, in New York in 1994, he served for many years as member of the board of directors of the Italian Association of Palliative Care and as Vice President of the European Association of Palliative Care. Editor of the Italian Journal of Palliative Care, his work has always emphasized the development of national and international research collaboration in palliative care, participating in the establishment of a European research network within EAPC and recently of the European Palliative Care Research Center (PRC) as Vice Chair.