Institute leadership | Cicely Saunders Institute of Palliative Care, Policy & Rehabilitation

Cicely Saunders Institute of Palliative Care, Policy & Rehabilitation

Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care

Our leadership team

We enable ethical and robust research that quickly feeds into care and practice, empowering people to live better, with dignity and the least possible suffering. Our leadership team provides strategic direction towards this mission and aims to create a collaborative and supportive environment.

Professor Richard Harding

Herbert Dunhill Professor of Palliative Care & Rehabilitation
Professor Irene Higginson

Founding Professor, Cicely Saunders Institute for Palliative Care, Policy & Rehabilitation
Debbie Spreadborough

Institute Business Manager
Professor Lynne Turner-Stokes

Herbert Dunhill Chair of Rehabilitation
Professor Catherine Evans

Honorary Nurse Consultant, Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
Professor Matthew Maddocks

Research Strategy & Quality & Executive Lead and PGR Lead, Cicely Saunders Institute of Palliative Care, Policy & Rehabilitation
Professor Katherine Sleeman

Impact Lead, Cicely Saunders Institute of Palliative Care, Policy & Rehabilitation
Dr Sabrina Bajwah

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Executive Lead, Cicely Saunders Institute of Palliative Care, Policy & Rehabilitation
Dr Clare Ellis-Smith

MSc Palliative Care Director, Cicely Saunders Institute of Palliative Care, Policy & Rehabilitation
Dr Jonathan Koffman

Education Executive Lead, Cicely Saunders Institute of Palliative Care, Policy & Rehabilitation
Dr Katherine Bristowe

Estates Lead, Cicely Saunders Institute of Palliative Care, Policy & Rehabilitation
Professor Charles Normand

Professor of Economics of Palliative Care & Rehabilitation

You matter because you are you. You matter to the last moment of your life, and we will do all we can to help you not only to die peacefully, but also to live until you die.
Cicely Saunders