Panel: Opportunities for the international community

Opportunities for the international community: key lessons and a framework for collaboration

Chair: Professor Kathy Eagar

Professor Kathy Eagar is Professor of Health Services Research and Director of the Australian Health Services Research Institute (AHSRI) at the University of Wollongong, Australia. Professor Eagar has over thirty five years’ experience in health and community care systems, during which she has divided her time between being a clinician, a senior manager and a health academic. She is the lead Chief Investigator of the Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration and a Chief Investigator on the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in End of Life Care.

Presenter: Dr Barbara Daveson
A look into the future: Priorities and opportunities for Australia's PCOC

Dr Barbara Daveson first started work as a therapist in palliative care in 1998. Since then, she has held research and health service management posts in Australia and the UK. Her postdoctoral work, led to her appointment as the Cicely Saunders International Lecturer in Health Services Research in Palliative Care at King’s College London. Dr Daveson has held executive positions within the Australian federal government, helping develop national policy for the benefit of consumers and their unpaid carers. In 2019, Dr Daveson became the National Manager of the Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration (Australia) and Senior Research Fellow at the Australian Health Services Research Institute at University of Wollongong, Australia. She has published widely including on research conducted in Australia, Europe and the USA, and presented internationally. Her research includes: mixed methods, cohort studies, cross-national cross-sectional surveys, implementation science, outcome and assessment measurement, with often a focus on older adults and always a commitment to improving quality and equity.

Panel Member: Professor Claudia Bausewein

Professor Claudia Bausewein qualified in medicine from Munich University in 1992. Her medical background is internal medicine but she has been involved in palliative care in Germany for more than 30 years. Professor Bausewein completed an MSc in Palliative Care at King’s College London in 2003 and received her PhD from King’s College London in 2009. She worked as Consultant in Palliative Medicine at the University of Munich and as senior clinical research fellow in the Cicely Saunders Institute at King’s College London. Since 2012, Prof Bausewein holds the Chair for Palliative Medicine at Munich University and is also Director of the Department of Palliative Medicine at Munich University Hospital.

Panel Member: Professor Fliss Murtagh

Professor Fliss Murtagh qualified in medicine in the UK in 1986. She worked in General Practice for almost 10 years, and then undertook specialist training in palliative medicine. She is now a Professor of Palliative Care at Hull York Medical School, and Visiting Professor of Palliative Care at the Cicely Saunders Institute, King’s College London, UK, as well as Consultant in Palliative Medicine at Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, in Hull, UK. She is experienced in providing palliative care to a wide range of people with far advanced disease and their families, and has published extensively on palliative and end-of-life care needs, especially for older people and those with advanced kidney disease. She is also experienced in research methods: cohort and cross sectional surveys, psychometrics, implementation and use of outcomes, especially the Integrated Palliative care Outcome Scale (see www.pos-pal.org). Her current and recent projects are with the Outcome Assessment and Complexity Collaborative (OACC), C-Change, and RESOLVE.

Panel Member: Professor Katherine Clark

Professor Katherine Clark (MBBS MMed (pain) PhD FRACP, FAChPM) is the inaugural Clinical Director for Palliative Care (Northern Sydney Local Health District Cancer and Palliative Care Network), a position she has held for 2 years now. She accepted this position as part of NSLHD’s commitment to developing palliative care services with the aim of ensuring all residents of Northern Sydney had reliable access to evidence-based palliative care based on their clinical needs.

Panel Member: Dr Deborah Dudgeon

Deborah Dudgeon MD, FRCPC is Professor Emeritus, Queen's University and Sr Scientific Leader, Person-Centred Perspective for the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer. Dr Dudgeon is a medical oncologist by training and has worked in palliative care for over 25 years. While the inaugural Head of Palliative Care for Cancer Care Ontario, she and others implemented symptom screening with the Edmonton Symptom Assessment System in 14 regional cancer centres in Ontario, Canada. The Canadian Partnership Against Cancer is currently supporting the implementation, collection, measurement and provincial reporting of patient reported outcomes (including ESAS) in most provinces and territories across Canada.

Panel Member: Dr Mike Lucey

Dr Michael Lucey is a Consultant in Palliative Medicine in Milford Hospice in Limerick and the HSE Mid-West Hospitals Group. He is a graduate of University College Dublin (U.C.D) and has previously worked as a Consultant in North Dublin. In 2003 he completed an Executive MBA in U.C.D and has published and presented nationally and internationally in the areas of symptom control, healthcare management and systems analysis. He chaired and lead authored of the national guideline for the pharmacological management of cancer pain in adults published through the National Clinical Effectiveness Committee (NCEC 2015). He has completed a Senior Fellowship in Palliative Medicine with U.C.D and Trinity College in the areas of quality and performance management. Dr Lucey is currently chairing the implementation group for the implementation of the Australian Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration model of quality assurance in the Irish setting.

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