Michael I. Bennett MD

Mike Bennett is the St Gemma’s Professor of Palliative Medicine at the University of Leeds, UK. He is based at the Leeds Institute of Health Sciences working alongside the primary care team, with clinical sessions at St Gemma’s Hospice. Mike qualified from University of Birmingham in 1988 and became Consultant and Senior Clinical Lecturer in Palliative Medicine at St Gemma’s Hospice in Leeds from 1997. He completed an MD (doctoral thesis) in 1999 resulting in the LANSS Pain Scale, an internationally used tool for identifying neuropathic pain. From 2003 -2007 he established and directed the Leeds Pallium Research Group and was appointed as Professor of Palliative Medicine at Lancaster University from 2007 - 2011.