Jennifer Philip
Research Overview
Palliative care is a unique medical speciality that focuses on achieving the best possible quality of life for people with serious illness. As an emerging field, palliative care is accruing an evidence base to ensure the best care underpinned by the best research is available to people who have no time to waste. Our team brings together clinicians, researchers and allied health professionals, under the leadership of the Chair of Palliative Medicine. We are effecting positive and systemic change in palliative care practice and accelerate the translation of research-generated knowledge into improved patient care nationally and internationally. Our team is clinically embedded within St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne and other partners of the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre (VCCC).
Our mission is to lead a program of robust, ethical and high-quality research that specifically focuses on improving: ‘Systems of care’ - the ways in which palliative care is provided ‘Engagement with palliative care’ - how we best talk about and come to shared decisions about treatment and care ‘The evidence for best clinical care’ - how we best support the patient and their family
Staff
Professor Jennifer Philip, Chair of Palliative Medicine
+61 3 9231 1267 | jphilip@unimelb.edu.au
Tanya Fraser, Project Officer and Research Administrator
+ 61 3 9231 1267 tanya.fraser@unimelb.edu.au
Research Team
Dr Anna Collins, Head, Public Health and Services Research
anna.collins@unimelb.edu.au
Kylee Bellingham, Research Fellow
kylee.bellingham@unimelb.edu.au
Mollie Wilson, Research Officer & PhD Student
mollie.wilson1@unimelb.edu.au
Farwa Rizvi, Research Fellow
farwa.rizvi@unimelb.edu.au
Cara Platts, Research Fellow
c.platts@unimelb.edu.au
Marissa Mulcahy, First Nations Cancer Coordinator
marissa.mulcahy@svha.org.au
Lucy Demediuk, Clinical Trials Coordinator
lucy.demediuk@petermac.org
Angela Chia, Clinical Trials Coordinator
angela.chia@petermac.org
Georgia Christopoulos, Research Assistant
g.christopoulos@unimelb.edu.au
Collaborators
Our team is proud to have strong links to:
St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne and VCCC partners
The Centre for Palliative Care
Collaborative Centre for Genomic Cancer Medicine
Palliative Care Clinical Studies Collaborative (PaCCSC)
Research Publications
To read some of our latest work, click on the links below.
2023-2024
Philip J, Chang YK, Collins A, Smallwood N, Sullivan DR, Yawn BP, Mularski R, Ekström M, Yang IA, McDonald CF, Mori M, Perez-Cruz P, Halpin DMG, Cheng SY, Hui D. Consensus palliative care referral criteria for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Thorax. 2024 Oct 6;79(11):1006-1016.
Gurgenci T, O'Leary C, Philip J, Bruera E, Davis M, Agar MR, Hui D, Zimmermann C, Yennu S, Hardy J, Mercadante S, Rosa WE, Good P. Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Designing a Clinical Trial in Palliative Care. J Palliat Med. 2024 Aug 21.
Wong AKY, Wang D, Gordon I, Alexander M, Siew B, Yap N, Le B, Philip J. Opioid initiation timing and palliative care referrals in advanced cancer: retrospective study. BMJ Support Palliat Care. 2024 Jun 25:spcare-2024-005028.
Selvam D, Crawford GB, Rizvi F, Bellingham K, Philip J. CarePlus: A Model to Address Barriers to Early Palliative Care in Cancer. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2024 May;67(5):e495-e497.
Pointon S, Collins A, Philip J. Introducing palliative care in advanced cancer: a systematic review. BMJ Support Palliat Care. 2024 Feb 2:spcare-2023-004442.
Russell B, Philip J, Phillips J, Smith A, Collins A, Sundararajan V. Pilot Implementation of the Responding to Urgency of Need in Palliative Care (RUN-PC) Triage Tool. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2024 Mar;67(3):260-268.e2.
Ducharlet K, Weil J, Gock H, Philip J. Kidney Clinicians' Perceptions of Challenges and Aspirations to Improve End-Of-Life Care Provision. Kidney Int Rep. 2023 Jun 8;8(8):1627-1637. Ly L, Pascoe A, Philip J, Hudson P, Smallwood N. Social determinants of advanced chronic respiratory interventions: a scoping review. Eur Respir Rev. 2023 Aug 23;32(169):230068.
Collins A, Hui D, Davison SN, Ducharlet K, Murtagh F, Chang YK, Philip J. Referral Criteria to Specialist Palliative Care for People with Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease: A Systematic Review. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2023 Nov;66(5):541-550.e1.
Philip J & Collins A. Routine integration of palliative care: what will it take? Med J Aust 2015; 203 (10): 385.
Collins A, McLachlan SA, & Philip J. Initial Perceptions of Palliative Care: An exploratory qualitative study of patients with advanced cancer and their carers. Palliative Medicine 2017. DOI: 10.1177/0269216317696420
Philip J Skills, expertise and role of Australian emergency clinicians in caring for people with advanced cancer. BMJ Supportive and Palliative care. 7. 2017
Establishment and preliminary outcomes of a palliative care research network. Palliative & Supportive Care. 14. 2016
Insights into hospitalisation of advanced cancer patients: a study of medical records. European Journal of Cancer Care. 25. 2016
Presentation patterns and outcomes of patients with cancer accessing care in emergency departments in Victoria, Australia. Supportive Care in Cancer. 24. 2016
Toward a systematic approach to assessment and care planning in palliative care: A practical review of clinical tools. Palliative & Supportive Care. 14. 2016