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Professor Mark Taubert

Professor Mark Taubert

Consultant in Palliative Medicine & Honorary Professor School of Medicine

Email
taubertm@cardiff.ac.uk
Campuses
Velindre NHS Trust
Users
Available for postgraduate supervision

Overview

Work:

  • NHS Consultant and Clinical Director
  • National Chair Advance & Future Care Planning Stategy Group Welsh Government & NHS Wales
  • Professor Cardiff University School of Medicine since 2020
  • Harvard Medical School global clinical scholars programme faculty 
  • Compassionate Communities Cymru Steering Group member since 2019
  • NHS Wales Bevan Commission Steering Group
  • National Collaborating Centre for Cancer Management Board 2013-2016 
  • RCGP & Partners EOLC Group 'What Matters Most' Charter
  • BMJ Group Editor - Supportive & Palliative Care
  • Medicine (Elsevier journal) Editorial Board
  • ESMO designated centre for integrated oncology and palliative care lead

Public engagement work:

Authored articles in Washington Post, Al Jazeera, Guardian, Telegraph, Chicago Tribune, Metro, The Times, The Independent, Big Issue, BBC News & HuffPost UK

TEDx Talk: "Why language matters"

Television: BBC Horizon We Need to Talk About Death, ITV's BAFTA winning Hospital of Hope 

Radio: BBC Listening Projects 2019 and 2020.

Cultural collaborations: West End show in London's Soho Theatre entitled "The Colours"; National Theatre Wales' production "As Long As The Heart Beats" 

Classical music string quartet composition premiered at the Royal Northern College of Music

Newspaper features on Pressreader

Biography

Bio: Prof. Mark Taubert is a palliative medicine hospital consultant & clinical director at Velindre University NHS Trust. His teaching/research activities at Cardiff University include acute palliative care, using new media in clinical settings and decision making processes with regard to future care planning. He is the founder of TalkCPR.com and chairs a national strategy group that aims to improve understanding on topic areas relevant to care in the last years of life. He has delivered a Ted Talk on subtleties in language that are relevant to modern healthcare delivery, and writes for international news outlets like the Washington Post, where his article about music choices was an editorial top pick of the year. 

Honours and awards

Professional memberships

  • Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP)
  • Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners (FRCGP)
  • Fellow of the Faculty for Medical Leadership & Management (FFMLM)
  • Faculty of Führungsakademie der Bundeswehr Strategic International Community  

Speaking engagements

Mark has taken part in a BBC Horizon TV programme alongside the presenter Kevin Fong, and has also done extensive media work with television, theatre and radio. He has talked about medical topics at the Edinburgh Fringe, at Green Man, Hay Literary Festival and the Science Museum in London. He has also featured on two BBC Listening Projects which have been archived at the British Library. A few years ago he wrote a public letter to the singer David Bowie, which discussed the vital importance of palliative care. It went viral online and in global newsrooms, and was read out by the likes of Benedict Cumberbatch and Jarvis Cocker. 

Publications

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Teaching

Teaching, Supervision & Projects:

Education engagement activity:

Education podcasts, modules & seminars:

More than one hundred peer-reviewed journal articles and abstracts on medical topics:

  • Ceilings of Treatment & Escalation Decisions
  • Acute Oncology and Acute Palliative Care
  • Do Not Attempt Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
  • Opioids
  • Out-of-hours palliative care
  • Technology and new media in Palliative Care
  • Advance Care Planning
  • Patient and carer involvement
  • Peer-suport

A list of publications can be found here.

Supervision

Academic programme - Resource Page Palliative Care

The following tutorials, guidelines and articles are for students and clinicians attached to one of Prof. Taubert's teams, and cover numerous curriculum requirements for palliative care. Topics include an introduction to palliative care, symptom management, malignant spinal cord compression and management of hypercalcaemia of malignancy.

Past projects

MSc supervision:

Dr Heledd Lewis

Areas of expertise

External profiles

Research links