Staff Profile
Dr Victoria Hewitt
Senior Teacher, Curriculum Director MSc Oncology and Palliative Care
- Email: victoria.hewitt@ncl.ac.uk
- Personal Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/victoria-hewitt-b1660190/
- Address: Graduate Medical School
3rd Floor Ridley Building
Background
Specialist Palliative Care Physician specialising in online education. Senior fellow Higher Education Academy
Teaching
- Curriculum Director - MSc programmes in Oncology, Palliative Care and Oncology for the Pharmaceutical Industry:
- Module leader - ONC8005: Themes and Perspectives of Palliative Care
- Module leader - ONC8013: Quality Improvement
- Module leader - ONC8029: Pain Management
- Module co-lead - ONC8004: Developments in Diagnostic radiology in Cancer
- Learning design - ONC8030: Psychosocial Issues in Advanced Disease
- Lead Educator FutureLearn - Opioid Analgesics: Treating Pain in People with Cancer
Research
- Education-led palliative care service development in low and middle income countries
- Compassionate learning communities
- Public health model of palliative care
- Safe opioids prescribing
- Safe medicines management at the end of life