Supportive and Palliative Care Unit
Supportive and Palliative Care Unit
The Supportive and Palliative Care Unit at Monash Health is a Monash University academic unit focused on excellence of care for patients and their families who have a life limiting illness.
Our unit comprises:
- 16 bed level-3 inpatient unit with admissions in excess of 600 per annum
- Bi-disciplinary medical/nursing consult team covering the Monash Health Network and with annual consultations numbering in excess of 1500 per year
- Oncopain outpatients clinic
The unit is an accredited palliative medicine registrar training facility with all our physicians being accredited supervisors of the Chapter of Palliative Medicine (Royal Australasian College of Physicians). We also provide undergraduate medical student palliative medicine teaching for Monash University, teaching for resident medical officers, physician training registrars and nursing - undergraduate, post graduate and nurse practitioners.
Meet the team
Researchers
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![]() | ![]() | Dr Alison Giles | |
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Other staff and students
Research Fellows
- Dr Anne Ky
Honorary Research Fellow
Research Assistant
- Jade Hudson (MSci)
Staff involved in research
- Dr Scott King
- Dr Matthew Dellit
PhD Candidates
- Dr Beisi Jiang (Neurologist)
- Dr Khunthong Peechatanan ( Medical Oncologist)
Department Administration
- Linda Jay