This Symposium is aimed at all medical professionals involved in palliative care or with an interest in palliative care.

It is anticipated that participants will benefit from:

• A raised awareness of the changing face of palliative care
• An opportunity to share and exchange ideas with leading practitioners in the field

Professor Scott Murray - Scott has a keen interest in extending palliative care beyond cancer and into the community. He convenes the Primary Palliative Care Research Group at the University of Edinburgh and in 2006 was appointed to the inaugural St. Columba‟s Hospice Chair of Primary Palliative Care. He believes that palliative medicine specialists must be increasingly involved in educating and supporting generalists in every continent.

Professor Magdi Hanna

David Oliviere - David trained at Nottingham University in social administration and social work. With a background in psychiatric social work and management in the personal social services, David was involved with Pilgrim‟s Hospice, Canterbury, before joining the North London Hospice as Director of Social Work. Subsequently David worked as Community Care Advisor for ethnic minorities and refugees, LB Enfield, and more recently as Macmillan Principal Lecturer in Palliative Care at Middlesex University, whilst practising at the Macmillan Support Team at Barnet Hospital. He has contributed a number of chapters, articles and books on palliative care, including with Pam Firth and Gill Luff, "Loss, Change and Bereavement in Palliative Care” and jointly edited with Barbara Monroe, "Patient Participation in Palliative Care: a voice for the voiceless”; "Death, Dying and Social Differences”; and "Resilience and Palliative Care. Achievement in adversity”, Oxford University Press. "Narratives and Stories in Palliative Care” with Yasmin Gunaratnam is forthcoming (OUP). David facilitates a number of user involvement activities at St Christopher‟s.

Dr Martin Lennard - Dr Lennard is Reader in Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Sheffield. His research interests include cytochrome P450, drug interactions and pharmacogenetics. He is a former editor of the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology.

Dr Ben Zylicz - Dr Zbigniew (Ben) Zylicz was born in Poland. He is a Consultant in Palliative Medicine and Medical Director of Dove House, Hull. He trained in General Medicine, Medical Oncology and holds a PhD in Clinical Pharmacology. He worked for 25 years in the Netherlands where, among others, he was the founder of the first Dutch Hospice, Hospice Rozenheuvel in Rozendaal. He is the author of 120 papers, several books and numerous chapters in textbooks, printed in three languages. In 2006 he was decorated by HM the Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands with an Officers Cross in the order of Orange Nassau. Areas of interest: pruritus in cancer, opioids pharmacology, opioid induced hyperalgesia and end-of-life-ethics.