Keynote Speakers
Colin Murray Parkes, OBE, MD, FRCPsych.
Life President of Cruse Bereavement Care. Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist to St Christopher's Hospice, Sydenham and St Joseph's Hospice, Hackney. Dr Murray Parkes worked closely with the late Dame Cicely Saunders as consultant psychiatrist to St Christopher’s Hospice, Sydenham since its inception in 1966. Here he set up the first hospice-based bereavement service and carried out some of the earliest systematic evaluations of hospice care. He worked for 13 years with John Bowlby at the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations and edited books on the nature of human attachments and cross-cultural aspects of death and bereavement. He acted as consultant and adviser following the disasters in Aberfan, Bradford Football Club Fire, Capsize of the Herald of Free Enterprise and the terrorist attacks in Lockerbie and New York (after 9/11). Helped set up a Trauma Recovery Programme in Rwanda in 1995. In April 2005 he was sent by Help-the-Hospices, with Ann Dent, to India to assess the psychological needs of people bereaved by the tsunami.
Recently work has focused on traumatic bereavements (with special reference to violent deaths and the cycle of violence) and on the roots in the attachments of childhood of the psychiatric problems that can follow the loss of attachments in adult life. He is author of: Bereavement: Studies of Grief in Adult Life; and most recently, Love and Loss: the roots of Grief and its Complications, published by Routledge; also of numerous publications on psychological aspects of bereavement, amputation of a limb, terminal cancer care and other life crises. He is Scientific Editor of Bereavement Care, the international journal for Bereavement Counsellors, and Advisory Editor on several journals concerned with hospice, palliative care and bereavement. He was awarded an OBE by for his services to bereaved people in June 1996.
Janice L. Genevro, PhD, MSW
serves as Senior Dissemination and Implementation Scientist for the Centre for Primary Care, Prevention and Clinical Partnerships, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Department of Health and Human Services (United States). Dr. Genevro is a psychologist specialising in the translation of research into effective practice. In addition to her work in prevention and health communication, Dr. Genevro has a longstanding special interest in the well-being of health care and social service providers. Her publications for professional and consumer audiences have addressed topics including the health consequences of grief and bereavement, and suicide prevention. A graduate of the Health Psychology program at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, Dr. Genevro was a research fellow in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health. She is a member of the Institutional Review Board of the National Human Genome Research Institute of the National Institutes of Health.
Revd Dr Derek Fraser
Revd Dr Derek Fraser served as a Baptist minister in Aberdeen and Herefordshire for 17 years before entering the NHS as a chaplain at the Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust where he initiated the Leeds Bereavement Forum, a city-wide network, which draws together both the professional and voluntary sectors. Derek moved to Cambridge in 2001 to become Lead Chaplain at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge. He has a particular interest in bereavement issues and leads the Addenbrooke’s Trust Bereavement Group. He is a member of both the Clinical Ethics Committee and the Research Ethics Committee. He is a senior associate in the Cambridge Theological Federation, and is actively involved in developing new patterns of pastoral training for students He co-ordinates the National Chaplaincy Research Network Group and chairs the Chaplaincy Academic and Accreditation Board.
Professor Margaret Stroebe
Margaret Stroebe is Associate Professor of Psychology at the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Her major research interest is the study of reactions to interpersonal loss, particularly bereavement, focusing on theoretical approaches to grief and grieving, interactive patterns of coping, and the efficacy of bereavement intervention. With Henk Schut she developed the Dual Process Model of Coping with Bereavement. She edited (with Robert Hansson, Wolfgang Stroebe and Henk Schut) the "Handbook of Bereavement Research: Consequences, Coping and Care" (2001). Also with Robert Hansson, she wrote “Bereavement in Later Life: Coping, Adaptation, and Developmental Influences” (2007). She is member of the Association of Death Education and Counseling (honorary life member), the Bereavement Research Forum, and the International Workgroup on Death, Dying and Bereavement. She recently received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, and in 2002 she received the Scientific Research Award of the American Association of Death Education and Counseling.
Dr Henk Schut
Dr Henk Schut Henk Schut is Associate Professor of Psychology at Utrecht University, The Netherlands, Department of Clinical and Health Psychology. His research focuses on effect of bereavement on health, the efficacy of interventions for bereaved people and personal and interpersonal coping with loss. His university and post doctorate teaching also centers around the themes of loss and trauma, and research methodology. He has co-authored (most with Margaret Stroebe and Wolfgang Stroebe) a substantial number of articles and some books on grief and bereavement. Henk is a member of the International Workgroup on Death Dying and Bereavement.