Dr Ben Clark Consultant in palliative medicine

Background

Dr Ben Clark trained at Cambridge University Medical School and completed his postgraduate medical training in the east of England. He then trained as a psychiatrist at the Maudsley Hospital and Institute of Psychiatry, and has worked in specialist units caring for adults with Asperger's syndrome and autism. He completed his specialist training in palliative care in London, and has worked as a consultant in palliative medicine at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust since 2013.

Expertise

Cancer pain, complex physical symptoms including nausea/vomiting, complex psychological distress including depression and anxiety as well as adjustment problems in advanced illness, advanced and end-stage metastatic cancer, end-stage cardiac failure, end-stage respiratory disease, end-stage kidney disease, advanced dementia, frailty and multiple simultaneous illnesses, end of life care

Research & publications

Complex physical symptoms (mainly nausea and vomiting), the overlap between psychiatry and palliative medicine, communication skills training