Eddy Carolina Pedraza Salcedo MD
Postdoc (Prof. Dr. Gisela Michel)
T +41 41 229 59 16 • Alpenquai 4, Room 6 • eddy.pedraza@unilu.ch
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Eddy Carolina is a Medical Doctor from Colombia. She earned her degree as General Physician (with honour) at the Nueva Granada Military University in Bogotá, Colombia, continuing her clinical work at the Paediatrics Department in a public hospital in the same city. She completed her specialization in Paediatrics in 2017, at the Fundacion Universitaria Sanitas, Bogotá. Since then, she has been working as a general paediatrician with a special interest in the holistic needs of the patients and their families. Currently, Carolina is part of Professor Gisela Michel’s team, working as a PhD student at the University of Lucerne since September 2019. Her PhD project focuses on the needs and desires of bereaved parents in palliative- bereavement care in Paediatric Oncology. Carolina has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 801076.
Publications
- Support Experiences and Wishes of Bereaved Parents After the Loss of Their Child to Cancer. (2025). Pediatric Blood & Cancer, 72 (1), 31426 ff. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14268540
- Pedraza, E. C., Vokinger, A. K., Cleves, D., Baker, J. N., Garcia-Quintero, X., & McNeil, M. J. (2024). Grief and Bereavement Support for Parents in Low- or Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 67 (5), 453–471. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11355760
- De Clercq, E., Vokinger, A. K., Pedraza, E. C., von Bueren, A. O., Tinner, E. M., & Michel, G. (2024). Cooling facilities in paediatric palliative care: a ritual form of mourning? A scoping literature review. Mortality. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13303662
- Garcia-Quintero, X., Pedraza, E. C., Cuervo-Suarez, M. I., Correa, I., Baker, J. N., & McNeil, M. J. (2024). Implementation of a hospital-based end-of-life and bereavement care program in a latin American middle-income country. A source of light and compassion in the midst of cloudy times. BMC Palliative Care. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1186/s12904-024-01522-3
- Vokinger, A. K., Pedraza, E. C., & Michel, G. (2024). Kinderkrebs: Trauernde Eltern. cogito – Das Wissensmagazin der Universität Luzern, 13, 18–19.
- Vokinger, A. K., Pedraza, E. C., De Clercq, E., Tinner, E. M., Bergsträsser, E., & Michel, G. (2023). Leben mit Verlust: Trauerbegleitung nach dem Tod eines Kindes an Krebs - Angebotene Trauerbegleitung, Coping-Strategien und Bedürfnisse von Eltern. palliative.ch, (2), 12–18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10513907
- Pedraza, E. C., Michel, G., Altherr, A., Hendriks, M. J., & De Clercq, E. (2023). Coping strategies in families who lost a child to cancer: A Scoping review. European Journal of Cancer: Paediatric Oncology, 1, 100011 ff. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8163225
- Palliative care services in paediatric oncology centres across Europe: A cross-sectional survey. (2023). EJC Paediatric Oncology, 2, 100125 ff. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10401670
- Hendriks, M. J., Pedraza, E. C., Tinner, E. M., Bergstraesser, E., & Michel, G. (2020). Wenn ein Kind an Krebs stirbt ... Auswirkungen auf die Eltern und Bedürfnisse für die Palliativ- und Trauerbegleitung in der pädiatrischen Onkologie. Schweizer Zeitschrift für Onkologie, (4), 32–34. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4268368
Achievements
- Living with grief. Formal and informal support received and wished for by bereaved parents following the death of their child from cancer. Poster, 56th Congress of the International Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP), International Society of Paediatric Cancer (SIOP), Honolulu, Hawai'i, 2024
- FEEL. Fathers’ expressed experiences and wishes for support in life after loss. Poster, 56th Congress of the International Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP), International Society of Paediatric Cancer (SIOP), Honolulu, Hawai'i, 2024
- Experienced and wished for support of bereaved parents following the death of their child to cancer. Poster, SPOG SSPHO Scientific Meeting, Swiss Paediatric Oncology Group (SPOG); Swiss Society of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology (SSPHO), Inselspital, Bern, 2024
- Post-traumatic growth in parents who have lost a child to cancer- Results from a multi-centre survey in Switzerland. Poster, SPOG SSPHO Scientific Meeting, Swiss Paediatric Oncology Group (SPOG), Bern, 2024
- Grief and Bereavement Support for Parents after the Death of a Child in Low- or Middle-Income Countries: a Systematic Review. Lecture, Research Symposium Health Lucerne, University of Lucerne, Lucerne, 2024
- "POSITIVE CHANGES" - Post-traumatic growth in parents who lost a child to cancer: A multicentre survey in Switzerland. Poster, 6th Maruzza International Congress of Paediatric Palliative Care, Maruzza Foundation, Rome, 2024
- To live with loss: bereavement care for parents who lost a child to cancer. Lecture, Nationaler Palliative Care Kongress, palliative.ch, Biel, 2023
- Implementing an End-of-Life (EoL) and Hospital Bereavement Program in a Resource-Constrained Latin America Country: A Source Of Light And Compassion (Love) In The Midst Of Cloudy Times. Lecture, 55th Congress of the International Society of Paediatric Oncology, SIOP 2023, SIOP : International Society of Paediatric Oncology, Ontario, Canada, 2023
- Beyond the illness: exploring the multifaceted needs of bereaved parents following the death of their child to cancer. Lecture, IPOS World Congress, IPOS, Milano, 2023
- Coping strategies in families who lost a child to cancer: A Scoping review. Lecture, SPOG SSPHO Scientific Meeting 2023, Swiss Paediatric Oncology Group, Bern, Switzerland, 2023
- Coping strategies in families who lost a child to cancer: A Systematic review. Lecture, Research Symposium Health Lucerne, University of Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland, 2023
- Paediatric Palliative Oncology Across Europe: A Cross-Sectional Survey. Lecture, Research Symposium Health Lucerne, University of Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland, 2023
- Paediatric Palliative Oncology Across Europe: A Cross-Sectional Survey. Poster, 54th Congress of the International Society of Paediatric Oncology, SIOP 2022,, SIOP : International Society of Paediatric Oncology, Barcelona, Spain, 2022
- Paediatric palliative care (PPC) services in paediatric oncology centres in Switzerland. Lecture, 5th Maruzza International Congress of Paediatric Palliative Care, Maruzza Foundation, Rome, Italy, 2022
- Paediatric palliative care (PPC) services in paediatric oncology centres in Switzerland. Lecture, SPOG Scientific Meeting, SPOG: Schweizerische Pädiatrische Onkologie Gruppe, Bern, Online, 2022
- Paediatric Palliative Oncology Across Switzerland: A Cross-sectional Survey. Lecture, National Palliative Care Congress, Palliative.ch (Marina Carobbio Guscetti, President palliative.ch ; Renate Gurtner Vontobel Managing Director palliative.ch), Biel, 2021
- Needs, desires and psychosocial outcomes in bereaved parents who lost their child due to cancer. Lecture, Swiss Summer Academy in Palliative Care Research, The research network “palliative care research Switzerland” (pcrs), Münchenwiler (Murten), 2021
- Palliative Care and Bereavement Services in Paediatric Oncology Institutions across Europe. Poster, Swiss Public Health Conference 2020, The Swiss Society for Public Health, Swiss School of Public Health, University of Lucerne, Online Conference, 2020
