Nancy J Preston, PhD, BSc (Hons), RGN

Research interests: service delivery models for palliative care, symptom management

Nancy is a Professor of Supportive and Palliative Care at the International Observatory on End-of-Life at Lancaster University where she is also the program director for Postgraduate Studies.

She gained her PhD from the Institute of Cancer Research in London. Her main area of interest is service delivery models for palliative care (supportive care for people in their last year of life) including how to integrate such care into care homes and acute hospital services. She is also interested in symptom management and has conducted some Cochrane reviews on this. In addition, she has developed research in the clinical management of complex symptoms. She has expertise in the development and running of clinical trials involving patients with end-of-life needs, which have run at national and international levels through grants from the European Union.

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Terms of Appointment: May 2019 - April 2021;  February 2022 - January 2024