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Föreläsare

Här kan du läsa mer om våra två inspirationsföreläsare Felicia Hume Feldt och Nicolas Lunabba som kommer att presentera under konferensens plenarsessioner. 
Du kan även läsa mer om våra fem internationella föreläsare, som deltar från olika delar världen.

Felicia Hume Feldt
Felicia Hume Feldt är 56 år gammal och bor i Stockholm. Sedan 2018 har hon arbetat på Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset som sjuksköterska och samtalsterapeut på Psykoonkologisk mottagning, som är en högspecialiserad mottagning. Dit kommer patienter – och deras anhöriga – under aktiv cancerbehandling och rehabiliteringsfas. Tidigare arbetade Felicia på hospice i många år. Förutom enskilda samtal leder hon idag även två grupper på sjukhuset; en kreativ läs- och skrivgrupp som bedrivs på biblioterapeutisk grund, och en kurs i digitala berättelser; ett projekt som ursprungligen initierades av kompetenscentrum för Kultur och Hälsa. Felicia är även författare och gav 2012 ut Felicia försvann och Dödsbädden 2018. I hennes arbete och liv står berättelsen i centrum. Det talade, lästa och skrivna ordet skapar mening och kanske allra mest när livet förändras.

Nicolas Lunabba
Nicolas Lunabba är krönikör och debattör i samhällsfrågor, främst sådant som rör barn och ungas levnadsvillkor. Han har sedan 2006 varit verksamhetsansvarig för organisationen Helamalmö, som verkar för social rättvisa och hållbarhet med särskilt fokus på barn och unga i Malmö. Nicolas är även författare till boken "Blir du ledsen om jag dör?" som utkom hösten 2022.

År 2022 utsågs Nicolas till hedersdoktor vid institutionen för socialt arbete vid Malmö universitet. Han har även mottagit Svenska Martin Luther King-priset, Hillesgårdspriset för medmänsklighet och mod, samt IM-priset för hans viktiga insatser för sina medmänniskor.

David Currow
Professor David Currow is a physician and the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Sustainable Futures) at the University of Wollongong in Australia. He is a widely published researcher focussing on generating a stronger evidence base for symptom control, understanding the population prevalence of key symptoms and their impacts, and health services research.
David is a previous president of Palliative Care Australia and, separately, the Clinical Oncological Society of Australia. In 2015, David received the Tom Reeve National Award for Outstanding Contribution to Cancer Care from the Clinical Oncological Society of Australia.

James Norris
James Norris is the founder of MyWishes, the Digital Legacy Association and the Digital Legacy Conference. The Digital Legacy Association is the global association dedicated to improving awareness and standards in areas relating to digital asset planning and digital legacy safeguarding. They highlight the importance of making plans for our digital lives to help ensure that each person’s preferences for their digital lives are adhered to. They advance professional practice through education, training, campaigning, events and developing best practice frameworks.

MyWishes is an end of life planning software that empowers the general public to document and share their end of life preferences. They adopt a public health approach to care planning.

James specialises in utilising technology to improve end of life communication and ensure that people's wishes are adhered to. He consults various governmental and non-governmental organisations across the globe in areas relating to death and the internet. He also sits on a diverse range of technology, legal and social care related boards.  James often contributes and provides thought leadership in areas relating to death, bereavement, technology and the internet on TV, online, print and in scientific journals.

Mark Taubert
Mark Taubert is a palliative medicine hospital consultant and clinical director at Velindre University NHS Trust in Wales. His teaching/research activities at Cardiff University include advance care planning, acute palliative care, technology & new media and DNACPR decision making.

He is the founder of Talk CPR and has a national lead role to improve public understanding on topics relevant to care in the last years of life and at the extreme ends of medicine. He has delivered a Ted Talk on subtleties in language that are relevant to modern healthcare delivery, and writes for international news outlets like the Washington Post, where his article was an editorial top pick of the year.

John Ellershaw
John Ellershaw is Professor of Palliative Medicine at the University of Liverpool (UoL), where he leads the development of palliative care research and education.  He has contributed to the advancement of the city’s specialist palliative care services since 1994 and oversaw the implementation of the Royal Liverpool University Hospital’s ground-breaking Academic Palliative Care Unit, a 12-bedded inpatient unit dedicated to research and innovation in care for the dying.  

Since 2004, Professor Ellershaw has led the Palliative Care Unit at UoL, supervising a multi-professional team engaged in research on four core themes: Best Care for the Dying Person; Clinical Pharmacy & Pharmacology; Biological, Physiological & Digital Technologies, and Supportive & Palliative Care.  The Palliative Care Unit also specialises in communication skills training, delivering a range of courses at both undergraduate and professional levels.  

Professor Ellershaw is the founding Chair of the International Collaborative for Best Care for the Dying Person.

Agnes van der Heide
Agnes van der Heide was trained as a physician and epidemiologist. In 1994, she obtained her PhD degree based on research on treatment strategies for patients with rheumatoid arthritis. After that, she started working in the department of Public Health at Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
After having been involved as a postdoctoral researcher in nationwide studies on end-of-life decision making practices, Agnes further developed research in the area of palliative and end-of-life care in Erasmus MC. She has done studies on public health, clinical, ethical and legal aspects, at the local, national and international level. Since 2013, she is a full professor of care and decision-making at the end of life. Agnes has supervised 20 completed PhD trajectories and co-authored about 350 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals. In 2021 and 2022, she was a part-time guest professor at the Institute of Palliative Care in Lund.