Expert Collaborators
The Consortium has identified and confirmed the support of a panel of key national and international collaborators, all of whom add value to the work of the Institute. The panel has a wide range of experience and expertise in the area of palliative care and offer guidance and advice to the Institute.
Expert Collaborators are:
•Dr Anthony Byrne, Medical Director, Marie Curie Hospice Holme Tower Penarth and Consultant in Palliative Medicine at Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust
•Ms. Avril Jackson, Formerly International Information Manager, Hospice Information Service
•Mr. David Praill, Chief Executive of the Help the Hospices
•Professor Eduardo Bruera, Chair of the Department of Palliative Care and Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
•Professor Irene Higginson, Head of Department and Professor of Palliative Care and Policy at King’s College London
•Professor John Ellershaw, Professor of Palliative Medicine, University of Liverpool, Director Marie Curie Palliative Care Institute Liverpool, Medical Director Marie Curie Hospice, Liverpool and Clinical Director, Directorate of Palliative Care, Royal Liverpool University Hospitals
•Dr Jose Pereira, Head and Professor of the Division of Palliative Care, University of Ottawa, Canada
•Professor Kathy Murphy, Professor of Nursing, NUI Galway
•Professor Keri Thomas, Clinical Champion End-of-Life Care for the Royal College of General Practitioners
•Dr Louise Jones, Senior Clinical Lecturer and Head of the Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Unit at University College London
•Professor Lukas Radbruch, Director of Palliative Medicine Department in University Hospital, Aachen, Germany
•Professor Mari Llyod-Williams, Director of Academic Palliative and Supportive Care Studies Group, Division of Primary Care, University of Liverpool
•Professor Michael King, Professor of Primary Care Psychiatry at University College London and Head of Department of Mental Health Sciences
•Dr Peter Lawlor, Palliative Medicine Consultant
•Dr Robin Fainsinger, Professor in the Division of Palliative Care Medicine at the University of Alberta
•Professor Rose Anne Kenny, Head of the Ageing Programme and Head of Geriatric Medicine at Trinity College Dublin
•Professor Sheila Payne, Help the Hospices Chair in Hospice Studies and Director of the International Observatory on End of Life Care, Lancaster University
•Dr Sinead McGilloway, Senior Lecturer and Director, Mental Health and Social Care Research Group in the Department of Psychology, NUI Maynooth
•Professor Stein Kaasa, Professor of Palliative Medicine at the Institute of Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, NTNU, Norway
•Dr Suresh Kumar, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, WHO Demonstration Project Pain and Palliative Care Clinical Medical College, Calicut, India
•Dr Susie Wilkinson, Honorary Senior Lecturer in Palliative Care, The Royal Free and University College Medical School, London
•Dr William Brietbart, Chief of Psychiatry Service, Vice-Chairman and Attending Psychiatrist, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre, New York