Stephen’s pre-clinical medical training was in Cambridge and his clinical training in Oxford. He has worked clinically in General Practice for over 30 years in Palliative Medicine as Honorary Consultant Physician in Palliative Care at the Arthur Rank Hospice for 25 years.
His 2005 Cambridge MD thesis “General Practitioner provision of Palliative Care in the United Kingdom” was awarded the Clinical School’s Ralph Noble prize. In 2006 he was awarded a Department of Health / Macmillan Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship, leading a programme of research “Towards an intervention to optimise Primary Palliative Care: identifying patients and understanding their preferences.”
In 2011 he was appointed HEFCE Clinical Senior Lecturer in General Practice and Palliative Care in the Primary Care Unit. He was promoted to University Senior Lecturer and awarded a University Pilkington Prize for teaching excellence in 2015. He leads the Unit’s Palliative and End of Life Care research group and the teaching of Palliative Care in the Medical School. In 2020 he was appointed Honorary Professor in Palliative and Primary Care at the University of East Anglia Norwich Medical School.