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

Dr Stephen Barclay MA MB BCh MSc FRCGP MD
Honorary Senior Lecturer
Stephen joined the Department as an Honorary Senior
Research Associate in 2002, becoming Honorary Senior
Lecturer in Primary Palliative Care in the Department in
2006. He works as a General Practitioner in Cambridge,
where he is also Honorary Consultant Physician in
Palliative Medicine at the Cambridge Hospice, Specialty
Director for Palliative Care teaching in the Clinical School
and Macmillan Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the
University General Practice and Primary Care Research
Unit. His research focuses on Palliative Care in the
Primary Care setting, and he has collaborated with Cathy
Shipman and Julia Addington-Hall over several years.
He was awarded the University of Cambridge Ralph
Noble prize for his MD thesis entitled "General Practitioner
provision of Palliative Care in the United Kingdom"
in 2005 and in 2006 was granted a Department of Health
/ Macmillan Post-Doctoral Fellowship, which is to be at
the Kings Department part of the time.
Dr Claudia Bausewein MD MSc
Cicely Saunders International Research Training Fellow
Claudia went to Medical School at the University of
Munich. She completed her MD on the situation of
terminally ill cancer patients on admission to hospital.
Although her background is internal medicine, she has
been involved in Palliative Care in Germany for 15 years.
She is now working as a consultant in palliative medicine
at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Palliative Medicine at
the University of Munich. Claudia is Vice-President of
the German Association for Palliative Medicine and coeditor
of the German Journal for Palliative Medicine.
Claudia completed the MSc in Palliative Care at KCL in
2003. Her research project focussed on the validation of
the German version of the Palliative Care Outcome
Scale. Through the MSc Claudia developed her interest
in research and undertook more training in research
methods. She is currently undertaking a PhD funded by
Cicely Saunders International focusing on breathlessness,
looking particularly into the course of breathlessness
in patients with COPD or cancer and their relatives.
Within her PhD Claudia conducted a systematic review
on measurement of breathlessness and is currently
undertaking a Cochrane Review on non-pharmacological
interventions in breathlessness in advanced disease.
Besides breathlessness her main research and clinical
interests are palliative medicine for non-oncological
patients, pharmacotherapy and subcutaneous
application of drugs.
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