Innovations in End-of-Life Care
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Dr. Stein Kaasa is chair of the Palliative Medicine Unit at the Department of Oncology, Trondheim Regional Hospital. Furthermore, he is a professor of palliative medicine at the Faculty of Medicine, The Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Dr. Kaasa works as a clinician in the Palliative Care Unit. He has been on sabbatical in the United States during the 2000-2001 academic year.

Dr. Kaasa specialized in medical oncology and radiotherapy at the Norwegian Radium Hospital. In 1993, he received the first chair in palliative medicine in the Nordic countries and moved to Trondheim, Norway to establish the University Based Palliative Care Program. Dr. Kaasa has been working in the area of quality of life assessment and clinical trials for more than 15 years. He has published extensively in several areas of clinical research, primarily in palliative oncology and palliative medicine. He served as chairman of the EORTC Study Group on Quality of Life and was one of the investigators of the development of the EORTC QLQ-C30, a well known instrument for measuring quality of life. Dr. Kaasa was also part of the International Quality of Life Assessment Group (IQOLA) for the international validation of the SF-36. Dr. Kaasa is an active member of the European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC) Research Network and currently serves as president of the EAPC.

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