An exploration of up-to-date evidence on the timing of the integration of early palliative care and its impact on patients and their famlies/caregivers.

This lecture will be broadcast live online from the Cicely Saunders Institute. 

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About the speaker 

Dr David Hui currently holds the Dallas Fort Worth Living Legend Professorship at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA. He is the Director of Research at the Department of Palliative, Rehabilitation and Integrative Medicine, with a joint appointment to the Department of General Oncology. He is also the founding Director and Head of the Center for Goal Concordant Care Research at MD Anderson Cancer Center. His research interests include symptom management clinical trials, integration of supportive/palliative care and oncology, goal concordant care, prognostication, and research methodology.

He has authored and/or co-authored over 340 scientific papers and is the author/editor of 4 books (Approach to Internal Medicine, Drugs & Drugs, Internal Medicine Issues in Palliative Cancer Care, and 50 Palliative Care Studies Every Doctor Should Know). In addition to academic pursuits, he remains active clinically in both palliative care and medical oncology.

The Cicely Saunders International Annual Lecture is an annual event hosted by the Cicely Saunders Institute, King’s College London.

Speakers at this event are global leaders whose work has significantly influenced the field. These lectures are a unique opportunity to learn from world-leading clinicians and scientists and are aimed at clinicians, healthcare researchers, health policymakers and palliative care funders.

Royal College of Physicians CPD (1 credit pending)

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