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Martin Is a lecturer practitioner and program lead for MSc Advanced Clinical Practice In Cancer Care

at The Royal Marsden School. His background has been largely devoted towards pain management and has worked as both a clinical nurse specialist and lead nurse across acute, chronic, and complex cancer pain settings. He has a passion for cancer pain, pain education and development of pain services. In his previous role as Lead Nurse for Acute Pain services he was able to lead the team to win Acute Pain Team of the Year at the UK National Acute Pain Symposium 2018.

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He is the current chair and founder of the Pain Nurse Network and chair of RCN Pain and Palliative Care Forum. He is an elected member of the British Pain Society Pain Education Special Interest Group, and has been appointed to EFIC Academy board and a member of the EFIC Covid-19 task force and nursing working group.   

His research interest is focused on knowledge and attitudes of healthcare professionals in relation to pain management. He was awarded a pre-clinical academic fellowship by the Royal Marsden Charity and completed pre-doctoral research work exploring how healthcare professionals knowledge of cancer-related pain is measured. As part of his pre-doctoral work Martin was awarded a travel scholarship from the Florence Nightingale Foundation and spent time working with experts in cancer-related pain in the UK and America. 

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He is now undertaking his PhD at Kings College London and aims to develop a novel educational intervention that supports healthcare professionals in caring for those impacted by cancer-related pain. 

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