ABOUT FPOD
Meet the team
Different expertise. Shared purpose.
Working together for better recognition and care.
FPOD brings together medicine, science, ethics, advocacy, research and lived experience.
Different perspectives help us understand complex problems and work towards better care.
Our chair and trustees
People helping guide the work of FPOD.
Dr Adrian Tookman
CHAIR & TRUSTEE
Retired palliative medicine physician
Dr Steven Walker
TRUSTEE
Director, St Giles Medical
Richard Stephens
TRUSTEE
Patient advocate and journal editor
Ros Caffyn
TRUSTEE
Financial expert
Jennifer McCallum
TRUSTEE
Translational scientist
Our founding members
A community of experience and expertise.
Dr Eva Diehl-Wiesenecker
Emergency medicine, Germany
Dr Kiran Jani
Anaesthesia and ethics
Katharina Klesper
Health economics, Germany
Fiona Lapraik
Voluntary sector experience
Dr Carlos Lifschitz
Paediatric gastroenterology, USA & Argentina
Dr Philip Lodge
Palliative medicine, Royal Free London
Prof Bill Noble
Palliative care and academia
Dr Chantal Patel
Medical ethics, Swansea University
Dr Minha Rajput-Ray
Chronic disease and lived experience
Dr Donna Sagar
Public health
Dr Carmen Schmechel
Medical history, Germany
Dr Leena Sinha
Gastroenterology and ethics
Prof Rajan Somasundaram
Emergency medicine and hepatology, Germany
Rev Dr Peter Speck
Chaplaincy and spirituality research
Dr Selena Stellman
General practice and bioethics
Richard Stephens
Patient advocacy and journal editing
Dr Jacques Tamin
Occupational medicine and ethics
Dr Adrian Tookman
Palliative medicine
Dr Steven Walker
St Giles Medical, UK & Germany
Dr Christina Weiler-Normann
Internal medicine and rare diseases, Germany
Natalie Woods
Research and lived experience
Administrative support
Dr Steven Walker
St Giles Medical · London & Berlin
Daniel Roberts
St Giles Medical · London & Berlin