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Robert John D George MA MD FRCP FRCGP (Hon) FRCPathME (GMC 2388232)
Professor Robert John D George · United Kingdom
Professor Robert John D George
Palliative Medicine Expert Witness · United Kingdom
Professor Robert John D George is a Consultant Physician in Palliative Care at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, as well as a Professor of Palliative Care at King's College London. He was President of the Association for Palliative Medicine of Great Britain & Ireland in the period spanning 2015–2017, and advises government on ethical and practical aspects of end-of-life care.
Today, Professor George acts as an independent medico-legal expert witness and mediator, which includes the preparation of medico-legal reports, as well as appearing in court for cases involving palliative medicine, end-of-life care and pain and symptom management. Such cases range from those involving medical practitioners over matters of competence, to governments in challenges to legislation.
His academic interest lies in understanding the nature of suffering across differing cultures – and the complexities that this introduces to care and service delivery. During the course of his career, he has contributed to more than 140 publications, covering such topics as medical ethics, law, care modelling and clinical medicine.
Following accreditation in Respiratory & General Medicine (and a doctorate on breathlessness), Professor George pioneered HIV and non-cancer palliative care from 1987, and has since worked widely across clinical palliative care settings, such as hospitals and voluntary hospices.
He is an elected Councillor for the Royal College of Physicians, London, and has sat on RCP working parties reporting on aspects of palliative care, prolonged disorders of consciousness, as well as their committee on ethical issues in medicine.
Moreover, he is a regular contributor to the British media on medical ethics, and was an independent clinical expert to the Liverpool Care Pathway Review led by Lady Neuberger in 2012.
He considers himself a clinical academic rather than an experimental researcher, and holds a particular interest in the philosophy and ethics surrounding care. Before gaining his personal chair at the Cicely Saunders Institute at King’s College London, he was an Honorary Senior Lecturer in Bioethics at University College London.
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