MD MRCP FRCR FRACP FAChPM FFPMANZCA

Professor of Palliative Care

Career Summary

Graduated from St Bartholomew's Hospital, London University in 1979, and trained in medicine and radiation oncology in the UK, France and Australia. Past holder of joint clinical, academic and managerial positions at St Vincent’s Hospital and the University of Melbourne; McCulloch House, Monash Medical Centre, Southern Health and Monash University, Clayton, Victoria; and the Royal Adelaide Hospital and Mary Potter Hospice, Calvary Hospital Adelaide. Past President of the Australia and New Zealand Society for Palliative Medicine (ANZSPM) and immediate past Chairman of the Chapter of Palliative Medicine at the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. Awarded the 2006 Bethlehem Griffiths Research Foundation medal for research in palliative care. Chair of Clinical Ethics Committee and Clinical Leader, Respecting Patient choices Program, Royal Hobart Hospital

Research Interests

Research interests • Pain and symptom management • Law, ethics and the use of the humanities as they apply to care and decision-making at the end of life.

Teaching

Teaching Palliative Care in Discipline of General Practice, 3rd-6th years. Ethics, grief and clinical palliative care CBLs. Current and Supervised Project(s)