Can palliative care meet the challenge of care for persons with long term chronic illness

'Can (or should) palliative care meet the challenge of care for persons with long term chronic illness versus remaining in our end-of-life corner?'

The Cicely Saunders Institute Annual Lecture 2013

Dr Diane E. Meier is Director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC), a national organisation within the United States devoted to increasing the number and quality of palliative care programmes across America. She is also the Vice Chair for Public Policy at the Lilian and Benjamin Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute where she previously served as Director for twelve years. Dr Meier is Professor of Geriatrics and Internal Medicine; and Catherine Gaisman Professor of Medical Ethics at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. Dr Meier is the recipient of numerous awards, including a five-year National Institute on Aging Academic Career Leadership Award. Dr Meier is Principal Investigator of an National Cancer Institute-funded five-year multisite study on the outcomes of hospital palliative care services in cancer patients, and is an academic partner on project BuildCARE, working with King's College London and the Cicely Saunders Institute.



The Cicely Saunders Institute Seminar and Lecture Series aims to facilitate and optimise opportunities for local, national and international networking within palliative care and rehabilitation in order to improve practice, education and policy and the integration of research and clinical endeavours.

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King's College London, Cicely Saunders institute, Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation offers Postgraduate programmes: