 Professor Anthony Dickenson
Anthony Dickenson, BSc, PhD, FmedSci is Professor of Neuropharmacology in the Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology at University College, London, United Kingdom. He gained his PhD at the National Institute for Medical Research, London, has held posts in Paris, California and Sweden, and was appointed to the Department of Pharmacology at University College in 1983. His research interests are pharmacology of the brain, including the mechanisms of pain and how pain can be controlled in both normal and pathophysiological conditions, and how to translate basic science to the patient. Prof. Dickenson is an Honorary Member of the British Pain Society and was a member of the Council of the International Association for the Study of Pain for 6 years and is Section Editor for the journal Pain. He has authored more than 250 refereed publications due to his outstanding and motivated research team and has made many media appearances. He is a founding and continuing member of the Wellcome Trust funded London Pain Consortium. Prof. Dickenson has given plenary lectures at the World Congress on Pain, the American Pain Society, the European Pain Congress, the Canadian Pain Society, the Belgium Pain Society, ASEAPs, the Scandinavian Pain Society, the British Pain Society, the Thailand Pain Society, the Irish Pain Society, the Singapore Pain Society, the Australian Pain Society, the New Zealand Pain Society and many other international and national meetings. He has also spoken at the Royal Institution, to GPs and schools on pain. | |
Dr Anthony Byrne is consultant in Palliative Medicine at Cardiff and Vale University Health Board and is Director of the Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Centre at Cardiff University.
He is also Scientific Lead for Palliative Care Research at the Wales Cancer Trials Unit and a National Institute for Social Care and Health Research (NISCHR) clinical academic Fellow. His clinical research interests are in all aspects of palliative rehabilitation, patient experience and development of sustainable research environments.
Anthony qualified in medicine at UCD in 1988. He did much of his postgraduate training at the Mater Hospital in Dublin, before taking up an HRB postdoctoral fellowship initially at the Centre for Cardiovascular Science at UCD and subsequently the Dept of Clinical Pharmacology at RCSI. He moved to Wales to complete his training in palliative medicine and has been a consultant since 1999. He lives in the village of Dinas Powys just outside Cardiff with his wife Usha, a rheumatologist, and their 3 children. The younger 2, both boys, were born in Wales and being passionate Welshmen, there is particular strain to family relationships during the international rugby season! | |
Frank Brennan Frank Brennan is a Palliative Medicine Physician based in Australia.
In 2003 he worked at St Luke's Hospital in Dublin and Milford Care Centre in Limerick. In 2010 he was appointed a Renal Palliative Care Physician, the first such position in Australia.
He is also a lawyer and has written extensively on the human rights dimensions of pain management and Palliative Care. In 2009 he published Standing on the Platform - Stories and Reflections from Palliative Care. |
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