Professor Peter Hudson
Professor Peter Hudson, RN PhD
Director
Peter Hudson is Director of the Centre for Palliative Care (St Vincent’s Hospital and a Collaborative Centre of The University of Melbourne, Australia). Peter is also Professor in Palliative Care at Queen's University in Belfast.
Peter is a registered nurse with approximately 15 years’ experience in palliative care practice, education and research and he is a Board member of International Association of Hospice and Palliative Care. He coordinates The University of Melbourne’s multidisciplinary postgraduate course aimed at preparing health care professionals for specialist palliative care provision. He is former Vice President of Palliative Care Victoria and a member of The Victorian Government Department of Health policy advisory committee.
Peter’s research covers palliative care service delivery, psychosocial support and symptom management. He has a particular interest in developing and evaluating strategies to improve psychosocial support for families affected by advanced disease. Peter has published approximately 40 articles and, in 2009, co-edited a book that focuses on the ways in which health care professionals provide evidence-based support to family carers of patients diagnosed with life-threatening illness. He is Co-founder of the International Palliative Care Family Carer Research Collaboration, which operates under the auspices of the European Association of Palliative Care and is co-lead of an EAPC Taskforce aimed at enhancing support provided to family carers.
