On 2nd February 2017 the West Yorkshire R&D Team held a workshop to bring together academics, clinicians and commissioners, to discuss research in cancer and palliative care taking place in West Yorkshire. The aim of the workshop was to support evidence-based commissioning as well as to offer health professionals the opportunity to feed back to researchers on where findings could be implemented in practice.
The event was chaired by Professor Sean Duffy and presentations were given by:
Professor Mike Bennett
St Gemma’s Professor of Palliative Medicine, University of Leeds
Dr Matthew Mulvey
Research Fellow, Academic Unit of Palliative Care, University of Leeds
Dr Lucy Ziegler
Senior Research Fellow, Academic Unit of Palliative Care, University of Leeds
Dr Matthew Allsop
Research Fellow in Applied Health, Academic Unit of Palliative Care, University of Leeds
Professor Richard Neal
Professor of Primary Care Oncology, University of Leeds
Dr Sam Smith
Cancer Research UK Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Leeds
Paul Carder
Head of Research, West Yorkshire Research & Development
The presentations from the day can be found below:
For further information please click here to contact the research team.