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

needs, educational programmes in palliative care.
Massimo is a member of the Scientific Committee of the
Maruzza Lefebvre d’Ovidio Foundation (Rome) leading
the development of a qualified programme of research
and teaching in palliative care. From 2002 to 2004 he
was Medical Director of the “G Ghirotti” Hospice of
Genoa. In 2007, he was appointed Visiting Professor in
Palliative Care at the Department of Palliative Care,
Policy and Rehabilitation, at King’s College London.
Dr Polly Edmonds MBBS FRCP
Consultant in Palliative Care, Honorary Senior Lecturer
in Palliative Medicine
Polly is a consultant and lead clinician in Palliative
Medicine at King's College Hospital NHS Trust and
honorary senior lecturer in the Department of Palliative
Care, Policy & Rehabilitation, King's College London.
She qualified from St Mary’s Hospital Medical School,
and trained in General Medicine, Medical Oncology and
Palliative Medicine prior to taking up her consultant post
in 1997. She has led the development of the clinical
Palliative Care Team at King’s and is closely involved in
the undergraduate curriculum at the King’s College
London School of Medicine, as Palliative Medicine
teaching lead, deputy head of year 4 and year 4 OSCE
coordinator. Jointly with Rachel Burman, Polly is
programme director for the London and KSS Deanery
Specialty Training Programme for Palliative Medicine.
She has previously chaired the South East London
Palliative Care coordinating Group of the South East
London Cancer Network and remains an active
participant. Her research interests include palliative care
for non-cancer patients.
Dr Alison Evans PhD MSc
Research Fellow
Alison completed her first degree in Psychology at
University College London (1983 - 1986). She taught
English in Spain and Japan and worked as a university
administrator before returning to study to complete the
MSc in Social Research Methods at City University
(2000 - 2001). She went on to pursue her interest in
research methods over the course of her PhD at City
University (2003 - 2006) where she undertook a methodological
investigation into use of the Internet as a
social research tool for collecting data on sexual
behaviour among gay and bisexual men. The PhD was
supervised by Professors Dick Wiggins and Jonathan
Elford and funded by the Economic and Social Research
Council. Following this, she took up a one-year postdoctoral
research fellowship at City University which
provided the opportunity to develop her methodological
research and publish work from her PhD thesis. She
joined the department in 2007 and is currently working
with Professors Irene Higginson and Matthew Hotopf on
the development of evidence-based clinical guidelines
for the management of depression in palliative care.
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