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Dr Suzanne Penfold BSc PhD Research Fellow Suzanne originally studied pharmacology at Southampton University but later changed to a career in public health research. Her appointments thus far have taken her to Bristol, Edinburgh and Aberdeen Universities. During these appointments Suzanne gained experience of conducting research evaluations in several aspects of reproductive health, including Scottish male reproductive health, Scottish teenage sexual health (PhD research project) and maternal health in developing countries. In this department she is working with Richard Harding to undertake an evaluation of PEPFARfunded services in Kenya and Uganda offering palliative care for people living with HIV/AIDS. This longitudinal study explores links between components of care and health outcomes. Suzanne’s research interests include reproductive health research, evaluating complex interventions, health research in developing countries and infectious disease epidemiology. Dr Wendy Prentice MBBS, MA, FRCP Consultant in Palliative Medicine Wendy qualified in 1992 and has a background in general medicine and a broad experience of palliative medicine in a variety of settings. She commenced her first consultant / honorary clinical senior lecturer post in the North East in 2002. Within this post she led a multiprofessional palliative care team working in primary and secondary care and also developed the undergraduate palliative medicine curriculum for Newcastle University. Wendy joined the palliative care team at Kings College Hospital towards the end of 2006. Throughout her career Wendy has been interested in the better integration of specialist palliative care services within non-specialist settings. She is also interested in the development and delivery of education, as well as the various factors influencing end of life decision making. In 2002 she completed an MA in the Ethics of Cancer and Palliative Care, her dissertation within this focused on the issues of justice and resource allocation. Diana Opio Research Associate Dr Wendy Prentice After training as a nurse Diana completed a degree in Humanities then joined St Christopher’s Hospice where she worked as a palliative care nurse for 3 years. She also undertook a post graduate certificate in education and completed the diploma in palliative care awarded by King’s College, London, before proceeding to Leuven in Belgium where she gained a master’s in applied ethics. Diana and her family then moved to Uganda where she was appointed as a lecturer at Uganda Martyrs University, following which she worked for 3 years as consultant education advisor at Hospice Africa Uganda in Kampala developing clinical and distance learning courses in palliative care. She then moved to The Mildmay Centre also in Kampala, where she worked for a further 3 years running the BSc programme ‘A health systems approach to HIV/AIDS’ with students from Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania validated by The University of Manchester. In Uganda her special area of interest was developing effective palliative home based care services. During her time in Uganda she also gained a diploma in health services management run as a distance learning programme with the RCN. On returning to the UK, Diana joined in the Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation in September 2007, and is currently working on a research project looking at the palliative care needs of the elderly. 71
Tariq Saleem BSc MSc Research Fellow Tariq has a degree in Psychology from the University of London and an MSc in Health Psychology. Currently he has a leading role as Research Fellow and centre coordinator for the King’s Centre in Palliative Care in Neurology. The centre’s mission is to improve the treatment, rehabilitation and care of people affected by long term and progressive neurological conditions through research and development. He has published in the following areas: stroke, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, progressive neurological conditions, cancer screening, sickle cell & thalassaemia, health psychology, anxiety and worrying, culture and ethnicity, bilingual health advocacy and palliative care. He is currently conducting a three year longitudinal study funded by the Department of Health looking at the symptoms and care needs in advanced Parkinson’s disease, multiple symptoms atrophy and progressive supranuclear palsy. Lucy Selman BA MPhil Cert Pall Care Research Associate Lucy read Philosophy at Nottingham University, and received an MPhil in Philosophy from Birkbeck College, specialising in Philosophy of Science. In 2006 she completed the Certificate in Palliative Care at King’s. After working for Help the Hospices, she travelled in India, undertaking fieldwork for the International Observatory on End of Life Care at Lancaster University. In June 2005 she joined the department to work on a project modelling a palliative care service for heart failure patients at St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. She is currently working for Cicely Saunders International on the ENCOMPASS project, validating a version of the Palliative Care Outcome Scale for use in the African context. ENCOMPASS is a collaboration between King’s and palliative care centres in South Africa and Uganda, with preliminary development and validation of the POS through the African Palliative Care Association. Her academic interests include qualitative research, palliative care in the developing world, psycho-spiritual interventions and complementary therapies. A qualified yoga teacher and Thai massage practitioner, in 2006 Lucy was awarded a Churchill Travelling Fellowship to conduct research in India into the use of yoga and meditation in end of life care. 72
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