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Cicely Saunders Institute Seminar Series

The Cicely Saunders Institute hosts a FREE monthly seminar with speakers presenting on a range of palliative care and rehabilitation related research topics. The series aims to optimise opportunities for local, national and international networking within palliative care and rehabilitation. We welcome King's staff, students and the public. The Seminars have CPD (1 credit) Royal College of Physicians accreditation.

When: On the fourth Wednesday of each month, from 4pm-5pm (unless otherwise stated. There is no seminar in August).

Where: Dinwoodie Lecture Theatre, Ground Floor, Cicely Saunders Institute, King's College London (Denmark Hill Campus), Bessemer Road, London SE5 9PJ.

Contact: There is no need to register, but please email enquiries to csi.events@kcl.ac.uk.

For other events hosted by the Cicely Saunders Instute, and events happening across the Faculty, please see the events listing.

Date	Speaker	Topic Area
26/01/2022	Dr Chetna Malhotra	ACP & COMPASS Study
23/02/2022	Professor Catherine Walshe	CovPall Volunteers/Case studies
23/03/2022	Dr Sarah Mitchell	CovPall Primary Care
27/04/2022	Eric Finkelstein	Quality of Death & Dying Index
25/05/2022	Prof Lorna Fraser	Children & Young People
22/06/2022	Charlie Hall, University of Edinburgh	ENeRgy Trial
27/07/2022
August	NO SEMINAR	NO SEMINAR
28/09/2022	Josie Dixon	TBC
26/10/2022	Dr Lynn Calman & Dr Eloise Radcliffe	TBC
23/11/2022
December	NO SEMINAR	NO SEMINAR

2021 Open Seminar Series

Date

Title

Speaker

Details

24 November 2021

HDRUK National Core Studies

Lara Edwards, HRDUK

27 October 2021

Understanding the processes underpinning the successful implementation of Person-Centered Outcome Measures in routine palliative care: A normalisation process theory approach

Dr Andrew Bradshaw

22 September 2021

Palliative care for ageing populations: how do we improve care for people dying with frailty?

Dr Daniel Stow, Newcastle University

28 July 2021

British Heart Foundation Data Science Centre, Consortium, and Projects

Professor Cathie Sudlow

23 June 2021

Racial inequality of Covid-19

Dr Sabrina Bajwah

26 May 2021

Exercise for people living with frailty and receiving haemodialysis: a mixed-methods randomised controlled feasibility study

Dr Hannah Young, University of Leicester

28 April 2021

Empathy in palliative care conversations: Insights from direct observational research on (recorded) real life palliative care consultations

Professor Ruth Parry, Loughborough University

24 March 2021

Clinical Trials in Palliative Care: The Mystery of the Mechanisms

Professor Gary Rodin, University of Toronto

24 February 2021

Making a difference: Can implementation and improvement science help the Institute meet its mission to pioneer the very best in palliative care and rehabilitation?

Professor Annette Boaz, The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

27 January 2021

It feels it’s wasting whatever time I’ve got left: Living with treatable but not curable cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic

Dr Lynn Calman & Dr Eloise Radcliffe, University of Southampton

2020 Open Seminar Series
Date	Title	Speaker	Details
25 November 2020	It feels it’s wasting whatever time I’ve got left’: Living with treatable but not curable cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic	Dr Lynn Calman & Dr Eloise Radcliffe, University of Southampton
28 October 2020	Palliative care and advance care planning in nursing homes: what will move the needle?	Professor Lieve Van den Block, VUB-UGhent End-of-Life Care Research Group in Belgium	Event details
30 September 2020	Re-claiming the public understanding of dying	Dr Kathryn Mannix, author	Event details
22 July 2020	The ImproveCare study: Lessons from a feasibility cluster RCT of the AMBER care bundle for patients in hospital settings	Dr Jonathan Koffman, King's College London	Event details
24 June 2020	How opening a shop helped us learn to talk about death	Nick Hillier and Holly Rogers, Academy of Medical Sciences	Event details
26 February 2020	Interdisciplinary research, my journey and insights	Professor Dame Jessica Corner, University of Nottingham	Event details
22 January 2020	Using human-centred design to mitigate the impact of neoliberalism on burdunsome end of life care	Dr Liz Dzeng, University of California	Event details

2019 Open Seminar Series
Date	Title / Topic	Speaker	Related documents
23 January 2019	'Rehabilitation and palliative care - companions, competitors, or collaborators?'	Professor Derick Wade, Consultant in Neurological Rehabilitation	Flyer
27 February 2019	Uncovering the contributions and costs of family caregiving towards the end of live	Professor Gunn Grande, Division of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Care, University of Manchester	Flyer
27 March 2019	'Doctors need to believe in miracles too: truth-telling about therapeutic aims of cancer treatment'	Professor Dame Lesley Fallowfield	Flyer
24 April 2019	'Global health palliative care: partnerships, evidence and mutual benefit'	Professor Richard Harding	Flyer
29 May 2019	'The Namaste Care intervention for people with advanced dementia living in care homes: findings from a feasibility cluster RCT'	Professor Katherine Froggatt	Flyer
26 June 2019	'Using connected datasets to deliver systemwide insights: a matched analysis of health and social care costs at the end of life'	Jenny Shand, University College London	Flyer
CANCELLED24 July 2019	CANCELLED'What are the systems-level factors that contribute to overly aggressive, burdensome life-sustaining treatments near the end of life?'	Elizabeth Dzeng, MD, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor at UCSF
28 August 2019	NO SEMINAR
23 September 2019	The role of effective self management in person centred care	Professor Barby Singer, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia
25 September 2019	Volunteers and Palliative Care Provision: What is the evidence of their effect?	Professor Catherine Walshe, Lancaster University
23 October 2019	Measuring Outcomes in children with serious illnesses and their families: What matters	Eve Namasango
27 November 2019	Guidance on how to develop complex interventions to improve health and healthcare’	Professor Alicia O'Cathain

2018 Open Seminar Series
Date	Title	Speaker	Related documents
24 January 2018	NOTHING ABOUT US WITHOUT US: Including people with learning disabilities	Associate Professor Irene Tuffrey-Wijne (RH, PhD), Associate Professor, Kingston & St George's University and Amanda Cresswell, Co-Researcher	Flyer
28 March 2018	Hospice and Palliative Care in the USA: Policy Update and Future Challenge	Dr Pedro L Gozalo (PhD), Health Economist at Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research, and Associate Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice (Research), Brown School of Public Health, USA	Flyer
25 April 2018	Examining Differences in US Hospice Care Experiences by Profit Status Using the CAHPS Hospice Survey	Marc Elliot, senior principal researcher and Distinguished Chair in Statistics at RAND	Flyer
30 May 2018	Reciprocal Relationships and the Importance of Patient and Public Feedback in Health Research	Elspeth Mathie (MA, PhD), Senior Research Fellow at CRIPACC (Centre for Research in Public Health and Community Care), University of Hertfordshire	Flyer
27 June 2018	Integrating Palliative and Critical Care: Lessons from Recent Trials	J. Randall Curtis, MD, MPH, Professor of Medicine	Flyer
25 July 2018	Why missing data matter	Dr Jamilla Hussain, NIHR Doctoral Research Fellow, Hull York Medical School	Flyer
26 September 2018	Assisted Ventilation to Prolong Life: A Matter of Choice	Professor Louise Rose, RN, PhD, FAAN, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada	Flyer
24 October 2018	Episodic Disability, Rehabilitation and Chronic Disease: Lessons Learned from the Field of HIV and Ageing	Professor Kelly O'Brien, PhD, PT University of Toronto	Flyer
28 November 2018	Health, till death do us part? Impact of spousal bereavement on health and mortality among older adults in Sweden	Lucas Morin, Aging Research Center of Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm	Flyer

2017 Open Seminar Series

Date	Title	Speaker	Related documents
22 November 2017	Prioritising global research opportunities for children’s palliative care	Professor Julia Downing, Honorary Professor Makerere University, Chief Executive International Children's Palliative Care Network	Seminar Flyer (PDF, 196KB)
25 October 2017	Understanding a new public health approach to end of life care	Dr Libby Sallnow, Research Fellow and Doctorate Student, St Joseph's Hospice	Seminar Flyer (PDF, 293KB)
27 September 2017	Evidence-based policy making and the role of researchers	Lesley Wye, NIHR Knowledge Mobilisation Fellow, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Academic Primary Care, University of Bristol	Seminar Flyer (PDF, 2,073KB)
26 July 2017	The effects on costs of palliative care teams in hospitals	Professor Charles Normand, Edward Kennedy Professor of Health Policy and Management at Trinity College Dublin and Visiting Professor of Health Economics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine	Seminar Flyer (PDF, 2,111KB View slides (PDF, 629KB
28 June 2017	Outcomes following treatment limitation discussions in newborn infants	Professor Dominic Wilkinson, Professor of Medical Ethics & Director of Medical Ethics, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics	Seminar Flyer (PDF, 1,138KB) View slides (PDF 2,098KB)
24 May 2017	Understanding symptoms as a threat to function	Dr Matthew Maddocks, Lecturer & Specialist Physiotherapist, King's College London	Seminar Flyer (PDF, 1,264KB) View slides (PDF, 1862KB)
26 April 2017	Capturing the views of patients and carers about their experiences of care co-ordination	Jenny King, Associate Director of Research, Picker Institute Europe	Seminar Flyer (PDF, 1,226KB) View slides (PDF 2,450KB)
22 March 2017	Unexpected results- rehabilitation trials demonstrating no benefit	Professor Catherine Sackley, Head of Physiotherapy, Professor in Rehabilitation & Deputy Head of Division in Health and Social Care Research, King's College London	Seminar Flyer (PDF, 1144KB) View slides (PDF, 1,435KB)
22 February 2017	A new biography of Cicely Saunders: goals, challenges and methods	Professor David Clark, Sociologist at the University of Glasgow, School of Interdisciplinary Studies and leads the Glasgow End of Life Studies Group	Seminar Flyer (PDF, 1434 KB)
25 January 2017	The challenges and opportunities for an ageing population living with frailty	Professor Martin Vernon, National Clinical Director for Older People and Integrated Care at NHS England, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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