Challenges & Success of Complex Cancer Pain Management – A BOPA Education & Training Webinar

The BOPA E&T Subcommittee would like to invite you to one of our live webinar sessions on the Challenges & Success of Complex Cancer Pain Management.

Speaker: Dr Marie Joseph, Lead Consultant in Palliative Medicine, East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust

When: 18th May 2022, 18:30 – 19:30

Register: Click HERE for more information and HERE to register

Registration is FREE for all BOPA Paid and Free Members!
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Speaker Profile:


Dr Marie Joseph MBBS FRCP is the lead consultant in Palliative Medicine at the East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust. She has been specialising in palliative medicine since 1989, and with a passion for cancer pain management. Her expertise lies in the management of ‘opioid induced hyperalgesia’ by the judicious and timely use of co-analgesic adjuvants with modest opioid doses.
Dr Joseph is an accredited RCP educator, her teaching emphasises on the importance of combining clinical excellence with empathy in caring for patients. She is currently in the process of writing a book entitled ‘The Pain of Cancer’, hopefully to be published later this year.

Register for your free place now via the link above. We look forward to welcoming you all on the 18th May.

Best Wishes
Alkesh Patel and Bastiaan Buijtenhuijs
Co-chairs of BOPA Education & Training Subcommittee

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