Edinburgh Palliative and Supportive Care Group (EPAS) Image Professor Marie Fallon - St Columba’s Hospice Chair of Palliative Medicine. Edinburgh Palliative and Supportive Care group (EpaS).\n\n Research in a Nutshell Image Professor Fallon leads the Edinburgh Palliative and Supportive Care group (EpaS). This multidisciplinary group’s key theme is to improve the care of patients with life-limiting illness with a strong focus on cancer. Specific areas of expertise include neuropathic pain, bone pain, breathlessness and cancer cachexia. She serves as Chief Investigator on a large portfolio of clinical studies spanning investigator-led randomized controlled trials examining improved management of cancer-induced bone pain, neuropathic pain, institutionalisation of pain assessment. She has led recruitment of over 3000 patients with advanced cancer into randomized controlled trials over the last few years. She is the lead in an international programme of RCTs in cannabinoids in cancer-related pain and has led the development of studies using fMRI in Edinburgh. EpaS has a close collaboration with an international cancer-related cachexia programme and she is a Co-CI in cachexia studies run Edinburgh and internationally. She also leads a large programme of work looking at chemotherapy –induced peripheral neuropathy. Research ProgrammeEdinburgh Pain Assessment and management Tool (EPAT)People Marie FallonSt Columba’s Hospice Chair of Palliative Medicine and Honorary Consultant in Palliative CareBarry LairdSenior Lecturer in Palliative Medicine and Honorary Consultant in Palliative CareJoanna BowdenNRS Research Fellow and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Palliative MedicineOoi Thye ChongLecturer in Integrative MedicineKim SladdinResearch NurseJulie YoungResearch NurseLucy NorrisTrial ManagerHarriet HarrisPA and Clinical Trials Co-ordinatorTonje SandePost-doctoral Research FellowCharlie HallResearch FellowHonor BlackwoodResearch FellowContactMarie.Fallon@ed.ac.ukPA: Harriet.Harris@ed.ac.ukTelephone: +44(0)131 651 8611 Marie Fallon - Research Information CollaborationsEuropean Palliative Care Research Centre (EPCRC)European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC)European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO)St Columba’s Hospice, EdinburghDr Barry Laird Senior Clinical Lecturer in Palliative MedicineProfessor Charles Loprinzi, MD Anderson Cancer CenterProfessor Stein Kaasa and Dr Tora Solheim, EPCRCProfessor Mike Bennett, University of LeedsProfessor Augusto Caraceni, Istituto tumori, Milan, ItalyProfessor Peter Hoskin, University of LondonProfessor Irene Tracey, University of Oxford FMRIBProfessor Sue Fleetwood-Walker and Dr Rory Mitchell, University of Edinburgh Erna Haraldsdottir, St Columba’s HospiceDr Ruth Isherwood, Strathcarron HospiceDr Sara Booth, Cambridge University HospitalsProfessor Miriam Johnson, University of York Scientific ThemesPalliative, Supportive, Cancer, Pain – cancer, complex, neuropathic, bone, treatment-related, Symptom control, Analgesia, Opioids, Cachexia, Nutrition, Breathlessness.Technology ExpertiseQuantitative sensory testing (QST), GaitRite, Vivascope, TENS, acupuncture. This article was published on 2024-09-23
