FORA.tv Speaker - Maria Cigolini

Dr Maria Cigolini is a GP who has worked in the community, home, institutional settings and hopitals providing extended and palliative care for 20 years. She trained in Palliative Care at Melbourne University and is on the Medical Advisory Committee of Longueville Private Hospital in Sydney, which specialises in palliative and aged care. She receives referrals for patients in the treatment phase of advanced cancers and diseases, as well as in the end of life phase, and has contributed cases for papers used in ethical discussions on end of life decision making. She is a clinical teacher in General Practice at the University of Sydney.