Ash Wales Communicate, Collaborate, Celebrate; Conference 2010
For a Tobacco Free Wales
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Smoke Free Futures:
Tobacco Control
Conference
- 10
- Oct 11 - 12
Speakers
Plenary Speakers
- The Rt Hon Carwyn Jones AM
First Minister for Wales - Professor Gerard Hastings
Institute for Social Marketing: a collaboration between the University of Stirling and The Open University - Professor Ann McNeil
Professor of Health Policy and Promotion, University of Nottingham - Chris Tudor Smith
Head, Health Improvement Division, Welsh Assembly Government - Alison Cox
ASH England - Deborah Arnott
ASH England - Kari Paaso
Director, Department for Promotion of Welfare and Health, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, Finland - Bob Hudson
Chief Executive, Public Health Wales - Becky Freeman
Assistant Editor, Tobacco Control - Deborah Lycett
Consultant Dietician and PhD Rresearcher at the University of Birmingham
Plenary Speakers
Professor, the Baroness Ilora Finlay.Professor of palliative medicine at Cardiff University School of Medicine, and consultant at the Velindre cancer centre
Professor the Baroness Finlay of Llandaff is President of ASH. Ilora Finlay is a Professor of Palliative Medicine working with the Marie Curie Cancer Care since 1987. She was Vice Dean in the School of Medicine, Cardiff University between August 2000 and October 2005 and has recently taken up the position of President at the Royal Society of Medicine.
Since her elevation to a Peerage in 2001, she has been actively involved in debates on health issues, particularly relating to Health and Tobacco. She is a Member of the Select Committees on Science and Technology, and recently on the Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill. She is President of the Association of Chartered Physiotherapists, MS Cymru and Patron of Shalom Hospice, Wales. She was Welsh Woman of the Year 1996-97 and has held Visiting Professorships at Gröningen University (Johanna Bijtel Chair), and University of Melbourne.
She has published and lectured widely on palliative care, and researched into aspects of cancer palliative care. She established the internationally renowned Certificate Diploma/MSc distance learning courses in palliative care at Cardiff University, from which over 900 senior clinicians worldwide have graduated.