2004 - 2007 - Cicely Saunders Institute - King's College London

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Developments
in Staffing
During this period we welcomed many new staff, or ones
returning into more senior roles. Academic Rehabilitation,
led by Professor Lynne Turner-Stokes, joined forces
with Palliative Care in 2003, but over the last three years
the department has expanded to include a further parttime
chair (Professor Derick Wade), a Senior Lecturer,
Senior Clinical Research Fellow and four honorary
Research Fellows. Through their respective clinical
services in Northwick Park and Oxford Professors
Turner-Stokes and Wade provide a broad clinical base
for the research programme. A consortium formed in
collaboration with Professor Keith Andrews in the
Institute for Neuro-palliative Rehabilitation, Putney,
provides the largest research group for complex
neurological disability in the UK (see section 7). In
addition, two Visiting Chairs (Professor Peter Disler
(Australia) and Professor Kath McPherson (New
Zealand)) support the active research programme.
In Palliative Care, Dr Richard Harding was appointed as
a new Lecturer in Palliative Care, and was promoted to
Senior Lecturer from September 2007. Dr Sue Hall, a
health psychologist, was appointed as a new Lecturer in
Palliative Care to work on a new programme on palliative
care for older people supported by the Dunhill Medical
Trust and Cicely Saunders International. Dr Gao Wei is a
new Statistician in Palliative Care, part funded by King’s
College London and part by the new five year collaborative
in Supportive and Palliative Care from the UK
National Cancer Research Institute, which we are coleading
with colleagues across King’s, Leeds and
Edinburgh Universities. In 2007 Professor Massimo
Costantini and Professor Peter Fayers were both
appointed as Visiting Professors for a period of five
years. We also benefited from working with individuals
who spent several months with us on sabbaticals,
including Dr David Gruenewald from the United States,
Dr Joao Paulo Solano from Brazil, and medical students
Troy Cartwright and Michael Walton.
We have also said farewell to some significant members
of our group. Often they have moved on to new, more
senior posts. However, we continue to collaborate with
many individuals, because of continuing and sometimes
new projects, through honorary contracts and because
happily for us some have remained close by with King’s
College London. There are too many to mention, but
they include Professor Julia Addington-Hall, who moved
to take up a chair in End of Life Care in the School of
Nursing at the University of Southampton. Within King’s
College London, Dr Nora Donaldson was awarded a
Readership in Statistics in the School of Dentistry and
Dr Elizabeth Davies a Senior Lectureship in the Thames
Cancer Registry. We congratulated three successful
PhD graduates, Dr Jean Potter, supported for three
years from Mrs Coco Marcus, who has now taken up a
new post as consultant in palliative medicine, Dr
Christine McPherson, who is now following a career in
palliative care research in Canada, and Dr Jo Armes,
who took up a post in the School of Nursing, King’s
College London.
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