Meet the team
Mr. Robert Becker – Consultant Editor, MSc Dip N (Lond) RMN RGN Cert Ed (FE) FETC 730
Bob is trained as a nurse in mental health and adult nursing and has held a number of clinical posts across the UK. He moved from a position of charge nurse into education in 1986 as an in-service training officer with a variety of professional development responsibilities which included palliative care. In 1992 he was appointed to the position of Macmillan Senior Lecturer in Palliative Care, as a joint education post between Staffordshire University and Severn Hospice Shropshire in central England, a post he still holds today. He was awarded a Masters degree in psychosocial palliative care with a distinction in 1996 from Southampton University and is an experienced external examiner to several UK universities.
Bob has published widely, and has research interests in e learning, competency development and ethics. He is currently Chair of National Association for Palliative Care Educators and has developed an academic and humanitarian teaching and advisory role in a number of European countries and regularly leads palliative care study tours of China for health care professionals.
In 2008 he became a recipient of the ‘Educationalist of the Year Award' at the International Journal of Palliative Nursing Awards at the Café Royal London in recognition of his contribution to palliative care education in the UK and overseas.
Bob lives in the market town of Shrewsbury in central England with his wife Christine the occasional visiting trainee guide dog and his motorcycle.
Craig Nicholson - Editor
Craig graduated from the University of Nottingham in 2006 with a degree in Biochemistry and was formerly the Copy Editor of Nature Reviews Neuroscience.
Editorial board
Australia
Donna Drew - Clinical Nurse Consultant, Paediatric Oncology/Palliative Care, Prince of Wales Children's Hospital, New South Wales
Kate White - Professor Cancer Nursing, Cancer Nursing Research Unit, Sydney Nursing School, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, The University of Sydney
Belarus
Anna Garchakova - Clinical Oncologist and Director of The Belarusian Children's Hospice, Belarus
Canada
Doris Howell - Chair, Oncology Nursing Research, Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto
Eire
Philip Larkin - Professor of Clinical Nursing (Palliative Care) School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems and Our Lady's Hospice Ltd, Health Sciences Centre, University of College Dublin, Ireland
Julie Ling - HRB Research Fellow, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College, 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
Uganda
Julia Downing - Honorary Professor in Palliative Care, Makerere University, Kampala
United Kingdom
John Costello - Senior Lecturer, 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, University of Dundee, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Dundee
Daniel Kelly - Professor of Nursing and Cancer 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 Worcester
Dion Smyth - Lecturer-practitioner in Cancer and Palliative Care, University of Central England, Birmingham
Anna-Marie Stevens - Macmillan Nurse Consultant in Cancer, Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London
United States
Patricia H. Berry - Associate Professor and Associate Director, University of Utah Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence, University of Utah College of Nursing
Betty Davies - Professor, UCSF School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco
