Join IDD-TRANSFORM for our virtual forum featuring Dr. Irene Tuffrey-Wijne, Professor of Intellectual Disability and Palliative Care at Kingston University London Centre for Health and Social Care Research.

Dr. Irene Tuffrey-Wijne is qualified as a nurse in Amsterdam and moved to London in 1985, where she lived and worked in the L'Arche Community with people with intellectual disabilities for eight years. She then worked as a hospice nurse for eight years before moving into academia in 2001. She worked at St George's University of London and moved to the Joint Faculty with Kingston University in 2012. Dr. Tuffrey-Wijne has led a program of research focusing on intellectual disability, cancer and palliative care, with a particular interest in communication of bad news and in service development. Inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities as co-researchers is a key part of her work. She was given the world's first chair in Intellectual Disability & Palliative Care in 2018.

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