Mike Bennett is the St Gemma’s Professor of Palliative Medicine at the University of Leeds, UK. He is based at the Leeds Institute of Health Sciences working alongside the primary care team, with clinical sessions at St Gemma’s Hospice. Mike qualified from University of Birmingham in 1988 and became Consultant and Senior Clinical Lecturer in Palliative Medicine at St Gemma’s Hospice in Leeds from 1997. He completed an MD (doctoral thesis) in 1999 resulting in the LANSS Pain Scale, an internationally used tool for identifying neuropathic pain. From 2003 -2007 he established and directed the Leeds Pallium Research Group and was appointed as Professor of Palliative Medicine at Lancaster University from 2007 - 2011.
He now chairs the National Cancer Research Institute Palliative Care Clinical Studies Group, and chairs the British Pain Society Cancer Pain Committee. He chaired the host committee for the European Association for Palliative Care Research Congress held in Glasgow 2010, and is Field Editor for Palliative Care within the Cochrane PaPaS group. His main research interests are in cancer pain and neuropathic pain, and evaluating interventions at the end of life.
