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Professor Irene Higginson |
Dr Dan Stark |
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Professor Irene Higginson qualified in medicine from Nottingham University and has worked in wide ranging medical and university positions, including radiotherapy and oncology, in-patient and home hospice care, the Department of Health (England), and various universities. She began working in palliative care in the late 1980s and her PhD was on the development of the Support Team Assessment Schedule, one of the first measurement scales in palliative care. Before joining King's she was Senior Lecturer/Consultant at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Director of Research and Development at Kensington & Chelsea and Westminster Health Authority. She is Head of Department of Palliative Care and Policy, has active research programmes, leads the MSc in Palliative Care, and plays an active role in the clinical service, including on-call. She has served on a number of external committees and journals - she chaired the National Council for Hospice and Specialist Palliative Care Quality Committee (1996 - 2001). In April 2002 she became Dean of Graduate Studies in the School of Medicine, overseeing the quality of PhD and MSc programmes. In June 2002 she took up the post of Scientific Director of The Cicely Saunders Foundation, to lead the development of an international centre of research in palliative care. |
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Professor Scott Murray |
Dr Lucy Ziegler |
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Professor Irene Higginson qualified in medicine from Nottingham University and has worked in wide ranging medical and university positions, including radiotherapy and oncology, in-patient and home hospice care, the Department of Health (England), and various universities. She began working in palliative care in the late 1980s and her PhD was on the development of the Support Team Assessment Schedule, one of the first measurement scales in palliative care. Before joining King's she was Senior Lecturer/Consultant at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Director of Research and Development at Kensington & Chelsea and Westminster Health Authority. She is Head of Department of Palliative Care and Policy, has active research programmes, leads the MSc in Palliative Care, and plays an active role in the clinical service, including on-call. She has served on a number of external committees and journals - she chaired the National Council for Hospice and Specialist Palliative Care Quality Committee (1996 - 2001). In April 2002 she became Dean of Graduate Studies in the School of Medicine, overseeing the quality of PhD and MSc programmes. In June 2002 she took up the post of Scientific Director of The Cicely Saunders Foundation, to lead the development of an international centre of research in palliative care.
Dr Stark is a Senior Lecturer in Cancer Medicine at Leeds University and a Consultant in Medical Oncology in Leeds and until recently in Bradford. His specific interests are Teenagers and Young Adults with Cancer, germ cell tumours, sarcomas, the late effects of cancer and its curative treatment, and psychosocial oncology. After a PhD examining anxiety symptoms in cancer patients, Dan has worked as part of the Cancer Research UK Psychosocial Oncology and Clinical Practice group in Leeds, where he has active involvement in studies of Social Difficulties in South Asian Patients with Cancer, Item-based psychometrics for developing efficient measurement of symptoms, and Quality of Life in clinical trials and clinical practice. Dan is the Quality of Life lead for two large international clinical trials at present.
Professor Scott Murray Departmental role is threefold research, teaching and as a clinical general practitioner. Primary palliative care research group I convene this multi-disciplinary research team which seeks to understand the experiences of patients with life-limiting illnesses and their carers, and to develop and test best models of care. Our strategic focus is on research and development of palliative care in the community which is Patient-centred: embracing physical, psychological, social and spiritual issues. Comprehensive: for progressive non-malignant conditions as well as cancer. Culturally sensitive and internationally relevant. And starts from diagnosis of a progressive, life-threatening illness; not restricted to terminal stages. Currently funded projects include Working with patients and their carers to develop an efficient approach to the delivery of cancer care in primary care (CSO/SHEFC) The attitudes of patients, carers and professionals to the diagnosis, treatment and end of life care in heart failure: a qualitative community based interview study. (DOH) Living and dying with AIDS: a comparison of the lived experiences of patients accessing and not accessing anti-retroviral treatment in Zambia. Developing Services to meet the end of life care needs of South Asian Sikh and Muslim patients and their families in Scotland.
Dr Lucy Ziegler, The focus of Lucy Ziegler's work within the collaborative is to evaluate existing measures of psychological distress and to help develop consensus regarding the most appropriate measures to identify and monitor distress in oncology. Lucy's background is in health research and she has a particular interest in the psychosocial consequences of cancer and chronic disease. The focus of Lucy's recent work and of her PhD (completed in 2006) is the psychosocial implications of head and neck cancer. Lucy has developed and validated a measurement instrument (The Psychosocial Impact Questionnaire) to identify and monitor psychosocial issues in head and neck cancer patients. The measure has been adopted in head and neck cancer research and further validation studies are planned to help define its clinical application.
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