Interventional Pain Control in Cancer Pain Management
Edited by Joan Hester, Nigel Sykes, and Sue Peat
Author Information
Dr Joan Hester has worked in the National Health Service for over 40 years, and was originally a Consultant in Anaesthesia and Pain Management at Eastbourne, East Sussex, where she was also Medical Director, until moving to London in 2004. Joan now works as Consultant in Pain Medicine at King's College Hospital in London and is the Immediate Past President of the British Pain Society. She has a national and international reputation for her work in promoting understanding and education in pain management, and is a board member of the new Faculty of Pain Medicine at the Royal College of Anaesthetists. Joan has a life-long interest in cancer pain and palliative care, was co-founder of St Wilfrid's Hospice, Eastbourne, and currently works at St Christopher's Hospice in London, providing specialist pain management advice, education and support.
Dr Sykes' principal research interests concern gastrointestinal and end of life symptom management in palliative care, on which he has written extensively. He also teaches widely both in the UK and abroad. Currently chair of Help the Hospices International Palliative Care Reference Group, he is also a member of the Neurological Diseases Strategy Group of the UK National Council for Palliative Care. Dr Sykes has served as Treasurer of the Association of Palliative Medicine of Great Britain and Ireland, and as a member of the Association's Executive and Ethics committees. He set up the first clinical ethics committee to be located in a hospice and has spoken on television and radio, and made presentations to British parliamentary committees, on ethical issues relating to palliative care.
Dr. Sue Peat studied medicine and pharmacology at St. Batholomew's Hospital, London. She developed an interest in interventional techniques and opioid metabolism whilst undertaking higher professional training in anaesthesia at King's College Hospital. Following a period as a research fellow in the pain relief unit there she was appointed as a consultant anaesthetist specializing in pain relief, obstetric anaesthesia and undergraduate teaching. Her long connection with St. Christopher's Hospice has enabled the development of an integrated service which crosses the boundaries between acute, chronic and cancer pain management. This offers palliative patients the benefit of expertise and techniques more commonly available only in an acute pain setting.
Contributors:
Dr Joan Hester, MBBS, FRCA, MSc (palliative care), FFPMRCA Consultant in Pain Medicine, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK; Past President of the British Pain Society
Dr Nigel Sykes, MA, BM MCh, FRCP, FRCGP, FHEA. Medical Director and Consultant in Palliative Medicine, St. Christopher's Hospice, Sydenham, London, UK
Dr Sue Peat, BSc (pharmacology), MBBS FRCA FFPMRCA Consultant in Pain Medicine, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
Dr Catherine Urch, FRCP, PhD. Lead Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Imperial College NHS Trust, London, UK
Dr Paul Farquhar-Smith, MA, MB BChir, FRCA, PhD, FFPMRCA. Consultant in Pain, Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
Ms Julie O'Neill, RGN, BSc(Hons) Ward Manager, St Christopher's Hospice, Sydenham, London, UK
Ms Margaret Gibbs BSc MSc MRPharmS Specialist Senior Pharmacist, St Christopher's Hospice, London, UK
Dr Richard Griffiths MBBS, FRCA, FFPMRCA, Consultant in Anaesthesia and Pain Management, Chronic Pain Unit, Pembury Hospital, Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust, UK
Dr Jon Norman MBBS, FRCA, MRCP, FFPMRCA, Consultant in Anaesthesia and Pain Management, Chronic Pain Unit, Pembury Hospital, Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust, UK
Dr Kevin Fai, BSc, MBBS, FRCA, Consultant in Anaesthesia and Pain Management, Chronic Pain Unit, Pembury Hospital, Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust, UK
Dr Mike Williams, MBBS, FRCA, FFPMRCA Consultant in Anaesthesia and Pain Management, St Mary's NHS Trust, Portsmouth, UK
Dr Derek Pounder MB ChB DA FRCA FFPMRCA, Consultant in Pain Medicine, St Mary's NHS Trust, Portsmouth, UK
Dr Nicholas Padfield, MBBS, FRCA, FFPMRCA, Consultant in Pain Medicine, Guys and St Thomas's NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
Professor Mark Johnson, PhD, BSc, PGCHE, Professor of Pain and Analgesia, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, UK
Dr Jacqueline Filshie, MBBS, FRCA Consultant in Anaesthesia and Pain Management, Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London and Sutton, UK
Professor John Thompson, MB, PhD, FRCP, Dip Med Ac. Honorary Consultant in Medical Studies and Honorary Physician, St Oswald's Hospice, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK; formerly Consultant in Charge, Pain Relief Clinic, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
Ms Rosanna Heal MA, MSc, CQSW Quality Assurance Adviser, St Christopher's Hospice, Sydenham, London, UK
