Dr Alison Landon is a palliative care physician at St Christopher’s Hospice, Sydenham, London. She graduated from the University of Leicester in 1996 and began her medical career in General Practice. She then decided to pursue palliative medicine and has worked in this specialty since 2000.

Alison spent 8 years working in Romania developing palliative care services, primarily supporting the development of the country’s first inpatient unit in Brasov and education programmes around the country.

She returned to the UK in 2010 and has worked at St Christopher’s hospice since then, initially as a Specialty doctor and now working as a Consultant.  She has clinical commitments in the inpatient and community settings, supports junior doctors training in palliative medicine and is involved in local, national and international training programmes.