After medical school at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, Egidio Del Fabbro completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Barnes Jewish Hospital, St. Louis in 1998. Following 5 years of internal medicine practice he completed a palliative care fellowship at MD Anderson Cancer Center. In his current position as Assistant Professor in the Palliative Care and Rehabilitation department and co-director of the Cachexia clinic at MD Anderson the goal is to increase the awareness of conditions affecting the quality of life of cancer patients such as poor appetite, fatigue and testosterone deficiency. He is the Principal Investigator of two prospective clinical intervention trials including melatonin for appetite in patients with cancer and multimodality therapy for cachexia. He is funded by the American Cancer Society to explore the effect of testosterone replacement in male patients with advanced cancer and serves on scientific committees at national and international conferences. Eduardo Bruera, MD, is Chair of the Department of Palliative Care and Rehabilitation Medicine and holds the F. T. McGraw Chair in the Treatment of Cancer at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. Dr. Bruera is Vice President of the International Association of Hospice and Palliative Care. He is a member of the editorial board of several pain, palliative care, and cancer journals. He has received a number of national and international awards for his clinical and research commitment to the management of pain and other symptoms. Dr. Bruera's research has focused on clinical trials of pain and other symptoms, and health services research regarding supportive and palliative care. Dr Demark-Wahnefried is a nutrition scientist whose research spans basic science studies focused on determining the role of food-related components on cancer progression, to clinical research that involves nutrition-related concerns of cancer patients, as well as determining effective lifestyle interventions that improve the overall health of cancer survivors and their families. Her laboratory has conducted some of the largest studies exploring metabolic and body composition changes in response to cancer treatment. In 2003 she was named Komen Professor of Survivorship for her work in energy balance and breast cancer. An area of research in which she has particular expertise is in the delivery of home-based lifestyle interventions, where she has led and continues to lead several NIH-funded trials to improve the diet and exercise behaviors of cancer survivors. She also has actively contributed to national guidelines for cancer survivors (e.g., Institute of Medicine and the American Cancer Society). Dr Bowling qualified at St Bartholomew's Medical School, University of London, in 1986. After a variety of junior posts, he was appointed as a research fellow with Professor David Silk at the Central Middlesex Hospital. For his MD thesis he looked at the in vivo human colonic responses to intragastric and intraduodenal enteral feeding. For this work he was awarded the Sir David Cuthbertson Research Medal. In 1996 he was appointed as a Consultant in Gastroenterology at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire. He started a multidisciplinary nutrition support team, which introduced various innovative practices, that have since been copied by many other UK hospital teams. In 2003 he took up his current post in Nottingham as a Gastroenterologist and running a regional intestinal failure unit. He is clinical lead for nutrition at the Nottingham University Hospitals and leads the nutrition support team. Jane Hopkinson is a Macmillan Post Doctoral Research Fellow, who specialises in the study of supportive and palliative care for people with cancer. She is a nurse who worked clinically in the fields of cancer and palliative care prior to becoming a full-time academic seven years ago. Since 2002, her research has been investigating the problems of living with weight loss and eating difficulties for people with advanced cancer and their families. The purpose of this programme of research is to develop innovative ways of supporting people living with cancer cachexia syndrome. She regularly speaks about her work at both national and international meetings, in addition to publishing on the subject. Dr Vickie E. Baracos' research program on muscle and protein metabolism spans two decades and is related to different physiologic and pathologic states where muscle protein growth or wasting occur, including cancer, chemotherapy, sepsis, injury, diabetes, diet, environmental stress and lactation.
Inga Andrew, Senior Clinical Pharmacist
S. Antoun
Tessa Aston, Macmillan Specialist Dietitian
Christopher Bailey, Senior Research Fellow, School of Health Sciences, University of Southampton, UK
Casey Balentine Azuero, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Center for Palliative Care, and University of Alabama at Birmingham, Division of Preventive Medicine, Birmingham, USA
Vickie E. Baracos, Professor & Alberta Cancer Foundation Chair in Palliative Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
RA Barrett, Principal Haematology/Oncology Dietitian, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
Eran Ben-Arye, Integrative Oncology Program, The Oncology Service, Lin Medical Center, Clalit Health Services, Haifa and Western Galilee District, Israel; The Complementary and Traditional Medicine Unit, Department of Family Medicine, The Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, The Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Trevelyan Beyer, Physiotherapist
David Blum
Eduardo Bruera, Department of Palliative Care and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, USA
T E Bowling, Consultant in Gastroenterology and Clinical Nutrition, Nottingham University Hospitals, Nottingham, UK
Jacqueline Cairn, Occupational Therapist
Marina Chiara Garassino, Oncology Department, Fatebenefratelli and Ophthalmic Hospital, Milan, Italy
Shalini Dalal
Mellar P. Davis, The Harry R. Horvitz Center for Palliative Medicine, Taussig Cancer Center, The Cleveland Clinic, USA
Marvin Omar Delgado Guay, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Department of Internal Medicine. Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine. Lyndon B. Johnson General Hospital, Houston, USA
Laura Elliott, Mary Greeley Medical Center, Iowa, USA
Egidio del Fabbro, Assistant Professor of Palliative Care and Rehabilitation, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA
Nada Fadul
Gabriella Farina, Oncology Department, Fatebenefratelli and Ophthalmic Hospital, Milan, Italy
Moshe Frenkel, Integrative Medicine Program, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA
Jose Garcia
I Gioulbasanis
Liz Gwyther, Department of Family Medicine, University of Cape Town; Executive Director, Hospice Palliative Care Association of South Africa
Richard Harding, Senior Lecturer, King's College London, Department of Palliative Care, Policy & Rehabilitation, London, UK
Bob Hansford, Volunteer, St Benedicts Hospice, Sunderland, UK
Colette Hawkins, Macmillan Consultant in Palliative Medicine, University Hospital of North Durham, County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Nicola Hembry
Martin Hewitt, Consultant in Paediatric Medicine & Paediatric Oncology & Child Health, Department of Child Health, Queens Medical Centre Campus, Nottingham University Hospital, UK
Jane Hopkinson, Macmillan Post Doctoral Research Fellow, School of Health Sciences, University of Southampton, UK
RD Johnston, Clinical Research Fellow, Wolfson Digestive Diseases Centre, University Hospital Nottingham, UK
Lee W. Jones, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA,
Wendy Demark-Wahnefried, University of Texas - M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA
Sian Kirkham, Consultant in Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition
Elizabeth Kvale, Birmingham Veterans Administration Medical Center, and University of Alabama at Birmingham, Center for Palliative Care, Birmingham, USA
Nicla La Verde, Oncology Department, Fatebenefratelli and Ophthalmic Hospital, Milan, Italy
Dileep N Lobo, Associate Professor & Reader, Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Nottingham Digestive Diseases Centre Biomedical Research Unit, Nottingham University Hospitals, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK
Susan E. McClement, Associate Professor, Faculty of Nursing, University of Manitoba Research Associate, Manitoba Palliative Care Research Unit, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Dena Norton, Integrative Medicine Program, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA
Alejandra Palma, Instructor, Program of Palliative Medicine, Medical School, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Barbara Parry, Senior Research Dietitian, Winchester and Andover Breast Unit, Royal Hampshire County Hospital, Winchester, UK.
Henrique A. Parsons, Department of Palliative Care and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA
CMM Prado
Beatriz Shand, Instructor, Center for Bioethics and Department of Neurology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Florian Strasser
Carla Ida Ripamonti, Palliative Care Unit, IRCCS Foundation, National Cancer Institute of Milan, Italy
Paulina Taboada, Associate Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Director of the Center for Bioethics
Pradeep F. Thomas, Specialist Registrar in Surgery, Nottingham University Hospitals, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK
Sarah Toule, Cancer & Diet Information Project Lead, Cancer Equality, London, UK
Wendy Demark-Wahnefried, Professor of Behavioral Science, University of Texas - M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA
Eric Walker, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Center for Palliative Care, Birmingham, USA
Jeremy Woodward, Consultant Gastroenterologist, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge. UK
Reverend Caroline Worsfold, Chaplain to Northumberland Tyne & Wear NHS Trust and St Benedicts Hospice, UK
