Sam Hjelmeland Ahmedzai BSc, MBChB, MRCP, FRCPS, FRCP

Sam studied medicine in the Universities of St Andrews and Manchester. He obtained his clinical training in oncology and respiratory medicine in Glasgow and in 1985 he became Medical Director of the Leicestershire Hospice, where he established the first UK palliative care research programme. Since 1994 he has been Professor of Palliative Medicine at the University of Sheffield, where he combines an academic career whilst heading one of the UK’s busiest hospital supportive care teams in the Weston Park and Royal Hallamshire Hospitals. He led the Adult Cancer Survivorship programme in Sheffield and has pioneered consumer involvement in cancer research. Sam led the EORTC Quality Of Life Group, which produced the EORTC QLQ-C30, the world’s leading tool for measuring quality of life in cancer. He initiated the Association for Palliative Medicine’s Science Committee and is editor-in-chief of Current Opinion in Supportive and Palliative Care and of the Oxford University Press textbook series in Supportive Care. He was 2010 Spinoza Visiting Professor at the University of Amsterdam Medical Centre.