Ilora Finlay, Baroness Finlay of Llandaff

Ilora Finlay, Baroness Finlay of Llandaff

Ilora Gillian Finlay, Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (born February 23, 1949 ) is a British doctor , professor of palliative care and life peer .

life and career

Finlay was born on February 23, 1949. She moved to Cardiff in 1976 . The family later lived in the United States for a year and spent 5 years in Glasgow . She then returned to Cardiff.

She was president of the Royal Society of Medicine .

From 1987 to 2001 Finlay was a consultant for palliative medicine and medical director of the Holme Tower Marie Curie Center in Penarth . Since 1993 she has been a consultant for palliative care and team leader for chronic pain services at the Velindre NHS Trust Oncology Center in Cardiff . Since 1996 she has been Honorary Professor of Palliative Medicine at the University of Wales College of Medicine (UWCM). From 1999 to 2004 Finlay was Vice Dean of the School of Medicine at UWCM and from 2004 to 2005 Vice Dean of the School of Medicine at Cardiff University . From 1996 to 2001 she was Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Melbourne . Finlay was honorary professor of palliative medicine at Ulyanovsk University from 1999 to 2001 . From 2000 to 2002 she was visiting professor at the Johanna Bijtel Chair at the University of Groningen and since 2004 she has been an honorary professor at Groningen University.

Finlay was director of the Institute of Medical Ethics from 2002 to 2004 . She was a member of Cancer Research UK's Science Committee from 2002 to 2004 and has been a member of the Home Office's Advisory Council on Misuse of Drugs Act since 2002 . Since 2002 she has been a member of the Committee on Safety of Meds and the Expert Advsy Panel of the Executive Meds Control Agency .

From 1996 to 2000 she was the non-exec director of Gwent HA . From 1991 to 2003 she edited the magazine Palliative Care Today . From 2001 to 2008 she was a member of the editorial team of Medical Humanities . In 2002 she became medical editor-in-chief of the Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice and a member of the international editorial team of Lancet Oncology .

From 2004 to 2007 Finlay was President of the Chartered Society for Physiotherapy , MS Cymru . She is also President of Student for Kids International Projects (SKIP) and On Smoking and Health (ASH) (Wales) . She was president of RSM from 2006 to 2008 and vice-president of NSPCC Cymru from 2004 to 2007 .

Finlay is a member of the Association for Palliative Medicine of Great Britain and Ireland , BMA , Cardiff Medical Society , European Association for Cancer Education , Intractable Pain Society , International Association for the Study of Pain , Medical Women's Federation (where she was President from 2000 to 2002 ), World Society of Pain Clinicians, and the Welsh Pain Society . She is the patron ( patron ) of the Shalom Hospice Trust . In 1998 she gave the Sarah Davis Memorial Trust Lecture at the University of Dublin and in 1999 the Dame Hilda Rose Memorial Lecture at the Medical Women's Federation .

Finlay gave both the Dorothy Rees Memorial Lecture and the Annual Public Lecture at Cardiff Law School in 2003 , as well as the The Cardiff Lecture . In 2009 she gave the Stevens Lecture at the RSM.

Finlay was a member of the First Great Western Stakeholder Board from 2003 to 2009. Since 2007 she has been associated with the Girls Day School Trust .

She was Vice-President of the Fund for the Memorial to the Women of World War II from 2005 to 2006 . Finlay is the patron ( saint ) of the New Bristol Symphonia Orchestra , Cardiff and the Vale Youth Orchestra , MS Cymru and Student Volunteering Cardiff . She is a member of the Institute of Welsh Affairs , the Wales Medico-Legal Society and the Royal Society of Arts . From 2002 to 2006 she was governor of Howell's School Llandaff GDST .

She is patron ( saint ) of charities Hospice of the Valleys in South Wales, the Trussell Trust's food bank network in Wales and the Motor Neurone Disease Association . She is also a founding fellow of the Learned Society of Wales and is a member of its founding council. In 1999 she received the Healthcare IT Effectiveness Award from the NHS Executive and NHS Staff College Wales .

From 2006 to 2007 she was a member of the Cancer Strategy Board of the National Assembly for Wales . At the Ministry of Health, she was a member of the End of Life Care Strategy Board from 2007 to 2009. Since 2008 she has been a member of the Palliative Care Strategy Implementation Board for Wales . She is the director of Living and Dying Well Ltd , a member of the UK Drugs Policy Commission , and President of Multiple Sclerosis Cymru and ASH Wales . She is also a Fellow of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) and Vice-President of Marie Curie Cancer Care .

Membership in the House of Lords

Finlay was named a Life Peer on July 10, 2001 as Baroness Finlay of Llandaff , of Llandaff in the County of South Glamorgan. They were introduced on the same day. In the House of Lords she sits as CROSSBENCHER . She gave her inaugural address on November 2, 2001.

As her political interests, she lists careers of women, medical ethics , Welsh affairs, health and medicine on the official website of the House of Lords . She lists the People's Republic of China (including Hong Kong ), France , the Netherlands , Poland and Spain as states of particular interest .

From 2002 to 2004 she was a member of the Cancer Research UK Science Committee . Since 2005 she has been the Vice Chairwoman of the Medical Technology Group . She is a member of several Select Committees . She has been a member of Science and Technology since 2002 . From 2004 to 2006 she was a member of the Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill and from 2005 to 2006 the Mental Health Bill .

In 2003 it proposed a bill to ban smoking in public buildings in Wales three years before it was finally implemented there. In 2007 Finlay introduced a Private Members Bill , which aimed to change the current system of organ donation (from 'opt in' to 'opt out'). Parliament's timetable did not allow the bill to get through, but the debate continued.

Finlay successfully worked to change government organ donation policy in 2009 to allow potential organ donors to deliver an organ to a specific person. In March 2010, Finlay supported the Sunbeds (Regulation) Bill when it reached the House of Lords. Although there were only a few weeks until the 2010 general election , she took Julie Morgan's Private Members' Bill through the last courts to the Royal Assent .

Finlay heads the All Party Parliamentary Group on Dying Well . This group of MPs and peers was formed to promote palliative care and oppose legalization of euthanasia.

In 2011 she ran for the Crossbencher Convener election, but was clearly defeated by 45 to 100 votes to Herbert Laming, Baron Laming . Their presence is in the middle of the meeting days.

Honors

Finlay has received numerous honors. She was named Welsh Woman of the Year in 1996 and 1997 . In 2007 she received the Outstanding Achievement Charity Champion Award . She was honored with the 2008 Peer of the Year Dods & Scottish Widows Women in Public Life Awards .

The University of Glamorgan awarded her an honorary doctorate of Docitor of Science (Hon DSc) in 2002 , as did the University of Wales in 2005 . In 2002 she became an Honorary Fellow at Cardiff University . She is also at the University of Wales Institute Cardiff .

She has been a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England since 1972. She became a Doctor of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists in 1974 and a Diploma in Pediatrics the following year. In 1992 she became a Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners , and in 1981 she became a member there. Finlay became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1999 , having received her licentiate in 1972 and a member in 1997. In 2001 she became a member of the Institute of Learning and Training and in 2007 a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy . She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine . In 1983 she was honored with the Upjohn Essay Prize of the Royal College of General Practitioners. Finlay received the Silver Medal Computers in Med from the British Medical Association in 1992 .

Publications

• with Nigel CH Stott: Care of the Dying - A Clinical Handbook. Churchill Livingstone, 1984, ISBN 0-443-03160-6 .
• Cancer Patients and their Families at Home. Resource Book, 1989, 2nd edition. 1994.
• with Richard Hillier: The Effective Management of Cancer Pain. Aesculapius Medical, London / San Francisco 2000, ISBN 1-903044-05-7 .
• with Martyn Evans: Medical Humanities. BMJ Books, 2002, ISBN 0-7279-1610-6 .
• with Andrew Davies (Ed.): Oral Care in Advanced Disease. Oxford Univ. Press, 2005, ISBN 0-19-263243-4 .

Web links

• Ilora Finlay at Hansard (English)
• Ilora Finlay, Baroness Finlay of Llandaff at theyworkforyou
• Ilora Finlay, Baroness Finlay of Llandaff at The Public Whip
• Ilora Finlay, Baroness Finlay of Llandaff Official website of the House of Lords
• The Rt Hon the Lady Finlay of Llandaff - biography at Debretts

Individual evidence

1. ^ Professor Baroness Finlay of Llandaff Article on Cardiff University website , accessed March 23, 2013.
2. ↑ Baroness' bill to ban smoking article on BBC News December 11, 2003.
3. ↑ THE INDEPENDENT CROSSBENCH CONVENOR ELECTION SUPERVISORS  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Election result on the Crosbench Peers website , June 29, 2011.  
4. ^ House of Lords: Members 'expenses Members' expenses on the House of Lords website . Retrieved March 22, 2013.