Meet the team
Dr Philip Larkin - Consultant Editor RN, RSCN, RHV, NDN cert, B.Sc ( Hons), M.Sc, RNT
Phil Larkin trained as a Registered Nurse and Paediatric Nurse in the UK and worked in a variety of clinical posts, latterly in paediatric oncology and bone marrow transplantation. He subsequently trained as a Health Visitor and District Nurse in London and worked in community paediatrics, before moving to palliative care in 1990.
He has worked in Palliative Care in Ireland since 1992, in both in-patient and community settings. He was Director of Education at Our Lady’s Hospice, Harolds Cross, Dublin, from 1998-2001 before taking up a pilot post as Regional Coordinator for Palliative Nursing Services in the West of Ireland.
He is currently Senior Lecturer in Nursing ( Palliative Care) at The National University of Ireland, Galway. Until recently, he was Vice-President of The European Association for Palliative Care, Milan, Italy. Phil holds a PhD from The Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, a Masters in Health Professional Education from the University of Huddersfield and a Bachelor of Science in Community Nursing from Kings College London. In 2006, Phil was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award by Macmillan Cancer Support and the International Journal of Palliative Nursing in recognition of his European and International work on education in palliative care nursing.
He is married and lives in Connemara, Ireland.
Laura Dean-Osgood - Editor
Laura graduated from the University of Sussex in 2003 with a BSc in Experimental Psychology. She worked in healthcare recruitment for 3 years before joining MA Healthcare as editorial assistant. She worked across several MA Healthcare titles before moving on to become editor of NRC in May 2007 and IJPN in October 2009.
Editorial board
Africa
Julia Downing - Deputy Executive Director, African Palliative Care Association, Uganda
Australia
Donna Drew - Clinical Nurse Consultant, Paediatric Oncology/Palliative Care, Prince of Wales Children’s Hospital, New South Wales
Kate White - Associate Professor Cancer and Palliative Care, Head, School of Nursing and Public Health, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia
Canada
Wendy Duggleby - Associate Professor, College of Nursing, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon Saskatchewan
Doris Howell - Chair, Oncology Nursing Research, Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto
Eire
Philip Larkin - Programme Director, Higher Diploma in Nursing Studies (Palliative Care), National University of Ireland, Galway
Julie Ling - Nurse Adviser for Older People and Palliative Care, Department of Health and Children, Hawkins House, Dublin
Hong Kong
Cecilia Chan - Professor and Director, Centre of Behavioural Health, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
South Korea
Myung Ok Cho - Professor, Nursing Department, Dongeui University, Busanjingu, Busan
Sweden
Elizabeth Hanson - Research Fellow, ÄldreVäst Sjuhärad Research Centre, University College of Health Sciences, Borås
United Kingdom
Robert Becker - Macmillan Senior Lecturer in Palliative Care, Staffordshire University School of Health and Sciences, Severn Hospice, Shropshire
John Costello - Head of Primary Care, University of Manchester
Susan Holmes - Director of Research and Development and Professor of Nursing, Canterbury Christ Church University College, Canterbury
Bridget Johnston - Senior Research Fellow, Cancer Care Research Centre, University of Sterling
Daniel Kelly - Reader in Cancer and Palliative Care, Middlesex University, London
Diane Laverty - Nurse Consultant in Palliative Care, St Joseph's Hospice, London
Carole Mula - Macmillan Nurse Consultant in Adult Palliative Care, Christie Hospital NHS Trust and North Manchester Primary Care Trust, Manchester
Brian Nyatanga - Macmillan Senior Lecturer, University of Central England, Birmingham
Dion Smyth - Lecturer-practitioner in Cancer and Palliative Care, University of Central England, Birmingham
Anna-Marie Stevens - Clinical Nurse Specialist in Palliative Care, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London
United States
Patricia Berry - Assistant Professor, College of Nursing, University of Utah
Nessa Coyle - Director, Supportive Care Program, Pain and Palliative Care Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York
Betty Davies - Professor, UCSF School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco
