INPCS Leadership: Peter Hudson

Peter Hudson, RN, PhD
Member At-Large, INPCS Board of Directors

Peter is the Director of the Centre for Palliative Care which is an academic unit based at St Vincent’s Hospital and a Collaborative Centre of the University of Melbourne, Australia. Peter is a professor (honorary) at The University of Melbourne and professor (honorary) at Vrije University Brussels (Belgium).

He is a former Vice President of Palliative Care Australia and was a Director of the Board of the International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care. Peter is the Chair of the European Association for Palliative Care’s International Palliative Care Family Caregiver Research Collaboration and a Director of the Board of the International Neuropalliative Care Society. He has authored numerous international journal publications and is an investigator on multiple competitive research grants including through the National Health and Medical Research Council (Australia), the European Union, and the National Institutes of Health (USA). Peter is a past recipient of the Premier's Award for translating evidence into practice and is a USA Fulbright Scholar.

Peter’s role at the Centre for Palliative Care is to oversee the strategic development of multidisciplinary education initiatives and research programs incorporating palliative care service delivery, psychosocial support and symptom management. The focus of Peter’s role at Vrije University Brussels is to collaborate with its end of life research department by conducting international research projects.