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

Jo Clark
Research PA to Professor Lynne Turner-Stokes
Jo is the PA to Professor Lynne Turner-Stokes, working
between sites of Northwick Park Hospital and the
Weston Education Centre. She has qualifications at HNC
level in Business and Computer Management. Previous
to working for King’s College London Jo was the Clerical
Assistant for the Therapy Teams on the Regional
Rehabilitation Unit based at Northwick Park Hospital.
She has also worked in varying positions in other multiprofessional
organisations.
Professor Massimo Costantini MD
Visiting Professor
Massimo qualified in medicine in 1985 at the University
of Genoa (Italy). He spent the next five years specialising
in oncology and training in clinical epidemiology at the
National Cancer Institute (IST) of Genoa.
Since 1990 his main interests have focused on palliative
care. He worked as a palliative home care physician, at
the G Ghirotti Association of Genoa for two years. Since
1992, when he was appointed as full time consultant
epidemiologist at the Clinical Epidemiology Unit of the
National Cancer Institute, his research interests have
increasingly focused on the areas of palliative care,
quality of life, and psycho-oncology. He has published
over 80 papers in peer-reviewed journals, and a number
of book chapters on methodological aspects of palliative
care research. His recent research activities have
focused on studying multidimensional problems of
terminal cancer patients and on investigating the effect
of palliative care services on quality of care. He co-ordinated
the Italian Survey of the Dying of Cancer (ISDOC),
a post bereavement Italian survey that is providing a
national picture of the problems experienced by terminal
cancer patients and of the type and quality of provided
care. As first step of a project funded by the Ministry of
Health, he is co-ordinating the first Italian implementation
of the Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) for the dying in
an Italian hospital. The programme involves a clusterrandomised
trial aimed at assessing the effectiveness of
LCP in improving the quality of end-of-life care in
hospital.
Massimo is involved in Health Service development and
assessment. He was a member of the study group of the
Italian Ministry of Health that developed the national
guidelines and standards for palliative care organisation.
At present, he is co-ordinator of the regional group for
development of the Palliative Care Network, with the
mission to implement for each of the five Local Health
Districts of Liguria a network of specialised palliative
care services, quality assurance and total quality
management programmes and, according to different
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