Augusto Carceni MD

Augusto Caraceni was born in Milan on August 8, 1960, where he lives with his family, and is Director of the Palliative Care, Pain Therapy and Rehabilitation Center of the IRCCS Foundation of the National Institute of Tumors of Milan since 2007.

After graduating in Medicine at the University of Milan (1985) specialized in Clinical Neurophysiology (1988) and therefore in Neurology (1993) at the University of Pavia. At the beginning of his activity as a researcher at the Pain Therapy Department, directed by Vittorio Ventafridda (1986), participated in the WHO program for cancer relief, which led to the spread of the guidelines of 'WHO, known as' WHO analgesic ladder'.

After a period of specialization at the Pain and palliative care service of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York (1994), he had positions for the Italian Society of Palliative Care, of which he was treasurer and secretary, and for the European Society of Palliative Care who has been vice-president .

His clinical and research experience focused on cancer oncology (diagnosis, classification, measurement and treatment), neurological complications of cancer, opioid analgesics, and the control of symptoms in palliative palliative care among which has particularly deepened the theme of "Delirium" by publishing the monographic text:Delirium: acute confusional states in palliative medicine, Oxford University Press 2003 and 2011

He is the author or co-author of 152 articles in magazines, 44 chapters of books, and 13 monographic texts. He is Associate Professor of Palliative Medicine at the University of Trondheim in Norway and deputy director of the European Center for Palliative Care Research since 2009. He has promoted knowledge in Italy of the figure of Cicely Saunders, founder of the modern hospice with the spread of text "Watch With Me" (Bologna, 2008).