2006
Professor
Robert Twycross
DM Oxon, FRCP London
Robert Twycross is Emeritus Clinical Reader in Palliative Medicine, Oxford University, and Director, palliativedrugs.com Ltd.
He completed both undergraduate preclinical and clinical training in Oxford , and then worked mainly in general internal medicine for several years. He was Research Fellow in Therapeutics at St Christopher’s Hospice, London , 1971–76, where he completed various studies of diamorphine, morphine and methadone in the management of cancer pain, and for which he was awarded the Oxford University higher degree of Doctor of Medicine.
In 1976 he returned to Oxford as the first Medical Director of Sir Michael Sobell House, Churchill Hospital. In 1988 he became Clinical Reader in Palliative Medicine at Oxford University, a post he held until September 2001. From 1988-2005 he was Head of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Palliative Care, and for some 10 years was the Academic Director of the Oxford International Centre for Palliative Care. In 1996, he was elected an honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists, London.
He is a founder member of the International Association for the Study of Pain, the Association for Palliative Medicine ( UK ), the British Lymphology Society, the European Association for Palliative Care, and the Palliative Care Research Society (UK). He has taught in over 40 countries, and has had particularly close ties with Argentina, Hungary, India and Poland.
He has written some 300 articles, chapters and editorials, and is the author of several books, including Symptom Management in Advanced Cancer (3 rd edition, co-author Wilcock 2001), Palliative Care Formulary (2 nd edition, co-authors Wilcock et alia 2002), Arzeneimitteltherapie in der Palliativmedizin (co-authors Bausewein, Remi, Wilcock 2005), and Hospice and Palliative Care Formulary USA (co-authors Wilcock et alia 2006).
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