Robert John D. George MBBChir, MD, MA, FRCP

Professor Robert George is Consultant Physician in Palliative Care at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, Professor of Palliative Care at King's College, London and Medical Director at St Christopher’s Hospice, London. He was also President of the Association for Palliative Medicine of GB & Ireland from 2015-2017 and advises Government on ethical and practical aspects of end of life care.

Professor George can act as an expert witness, including the preparation of medico legal reports and appearing in court, in cases involving palliative medicine, end of life care and pain and symptom management. Cases range from those involving medical practitioners over matters of competence to governments in challenges to legislation.

His overarching academic interests are to understand the nature of suffering across different cultures and the complexities that this introduces to care and service delivery. He has over 130 publications ranging across medical ethics, law and care modelling.