Executive Director
Lien Centre for Palliative Care
Professor of Health Services and Systems Research
Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
Professor Finkelstein is Professor of Economics at the Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore and the Executive Director of the Lien Centre for Palliative Care. His research focuses on the economic causes and consequences of health behaviors. A major focus are studies to better understand the complicated decisions that revolve around end-of-life care. He has published over 300 manuscripts and 2 books in these areas. Based on google scholar, he has an h-index of 78, i10-index of 272 and his publications have been cited over 120,000 times, including in the landmark Supreme Court decision upholding the U.S. Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare). He was included in the list of the World’s Most Highly Cited Researchers in 2015, 2016 and 2017 by Thomson Reuters and Clarivate Analytics and among the Top 2% of scientists worldwide in a study by Stanford University in 2021.
Professor
Department of Social Work, Education and Community Wellbeing
Northumbria University, United Kingdom
Allan Kellehear is Professor in Health & Social Care at Northumbria University in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the UK. Allan has worked as a full professor in Australia, Japan, the UK, and the USA. He is widely recognized as founder and one of the leading advocates of the international public health movement in palliative care, also known as the ‘compassionate community’ or the ‘health promoting palliative care’ approach.
With Julian Abel, he is co-editor of the recently published Oxford Textbook of Public Health Palliative Care (2022) and Wellbeing at the End-of-Life (forthcoming), and a contributing author to the Lancet Commission Report on the Value of Death (2022). A medical and public health sociologist, he is an elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (UK) and is an honorary professor in theology and religion at Durham University (UK) and in family medicine at McMaster University Medical School (Canada). He serves as patron to the national doula associations in Australia, New Zealand, and the UK.
Professor
Director of Palliative Medicine Center
PUMCH (Peking Union Medical College Hospital)
PR China
Consultant (Health)
Health Bureau, Government of the HKSAR
Mr Lam has served in various bureaux and departments of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. He has vast experience in public administration, including policy formulation and overseeing drafting and enactment of legislation. In his role as a Consultant to the Health Bureau, Mr Lam’s current work covers the formulation of policies to facilitate the further development of end-of-life care services in Hong Kong, providing comprehensive and patient-centric support to terminally ill patients and their families throughout the end-of-life journey.
Clinical Professor
Department of Family Medicine & Primary Care
School of Clinical Medicine
LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong
Peter Tanuseputro completed all his higher education at the University of Toronto. He subsequently conducted post-doctoral fellowships at the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada before obtaining his first academic appointment at the Department of Family Medicine, University of Ottawa in 2016. In 2017 he transferred his primary appointment to the Division of Palliative Care, Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa. He has held several competitive salary awards, including a Tier 2 Clinical Research Chair in Palliative Care and Predictive Analytics and a Physician Services Incorporated Knowledge Translation Fellowship.
His main focus of research is health services research on frail, older, and marginalized populations. He has published over 300 PubMed papers including several in high impact journals such as JAMA (4), BMJ (6), NEJM (2), CMAJ (12), JAMA Psychiatry (3), PLOS Medicine (2), JAMA Network Open (15) and Intensive Care Medicine (3). He has also obtained over 145 grants totaling over $290 million HKD. He and his trainees have received numerous research and teaching awards. He joined the Department of Family Medicine and Primary Care, University of Hong Kong in 2024.