Professor Mark Taubert

Consultant in Palliative Medicine & Honorary Professor School of Medicine

School of Medicine

: Available for postgraduate supervision

For palliative care student video tutorials and resources, please see my teaching tab.

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 & 2020
Advisor & contributor for West End theatre show in London's Soho Theatre "The Colours"; about the Colours podcast
Classical music string quartet composition premiered at the Royal Northern College of Music
Newspaper features on Pressreader

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.

Teaching, Supervision & Projects

Teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level
Diploma & MSc in Palliative Care, Cardiff University
Research supervision
Harvard Medical School Capstone Faculty Effective Writing for Healthcare Certificate Program
Academic supervisor and mentor for Bevan Commission Exemplar and Fellowship Projects
RCGP & Partners EOLC Group 'What Matters Most Charter' and education resources
Virtual Reality Palliative Care Education Project resources & library - featured in the Guardian
Falmouth University School of Art "Four Deadlines and a Dinner" collaboration with graphic design students
Advance Care Planning website for NHS Wales - an online area for patients, proxy & healthcare professionals

Education engagement activity

TEDxTalk "Why language matters when we are dying" and accompanying TED-Lesson
BMJ Doctor Informed Podcast - DNACPR
Health Education in Wales CPD On Demand: Module 'DNACPR and Advance Care Planning in Wales'
NHS Wales ESR Module: National DNACPR Policy for Wales
RCGP "An introduction to Advance & Future Care Planning & latest DNACPR Wales policy"
Survival of the Kindest Compassionate Communities podcast
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA: Closler Teaching Resource on "Breaking Bad News via video consultation during Covid-19"
The sound of Covid-19: Binaural audio recordings of a palliative care ward round - Radboud Medical School Nijmwegen & Cardiff University
Organiser and facilitator of a Death Café in Pontypridd - we arranged a free event to discuss death, bereavement and advance care planning
E-Learning for Healthcare Module e-portal co-author: "A unified DNACPR policy"
RCPsych 2021 Conference Facing Death & Grief in our Practive - Advance & Future Care Planning in Psychiatry
Letters Live reading of a letter about DNACPR decision making and paient involvement

Education podcasts, modules & seminars

Aural Apothecary Podcast
Daffodil Standards resources
Care Conversations with GL Law: Palliative Care, Advance Care Planning and the law
Palliative Care for People with Learning Disabilities PCPLD 2021 Conference: DNACPR & Advance Care Planning
Wales Cancer Alliance Seminar- Remote consultations and new technologies in the aftermath of Covid-19
TalkCPR website Do Not Attempt Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation decisions in palliative care
IFIC 2020 presentation on Covid-19 Worforce implications in palliative care
Medicine Unboxed Podcast with Oncologist Sam Guglani
Digital Legacy Association non-executive director
E-ELCA on Do Not Attempt CPR communication skills
E-Learning for Health e-LfH portal module on Discussing Unwelcome News and Ceilings of Treatment Conversations with Dr Kathryn Mannix intro
Moth project Falmouth University graphic design collaboration exhibited in galleries & conferences
Velindre VR Project: Virtual Reality education library. Coverage in the Guardian newspaper. Details Wales STEME Conference VR in MedEd Plenary video
Cardiff University 'Public Uni' talks and events
Communicating in Covid Times for Anchor FM Supporting Community Conversations
Royal College of Physicians: Pandemic Palliation and the RCP 'Talking about Dying' Report
ListenNote Podcasts: Several audio Podcasts on Advance Care Planning, legal aspects of DNACPR/ACP and digital innovation in palliative care
Green Man Festival 2021 - Einstein's Garden: Mark Taubert, Jude Rogers and James Norris in conversation

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.

Introduction to Palliative care ( 35 minute seminar): https://youtu.be/wo74qHkV4Fw
Introduction to Palliative Care (14 minute incl VR seminar option): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PriZjLtlNU4
Nausea and vomiting (28 minutes incl VR option): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3DEnWvF4Lk
or Nausea and Vomiting as narrated slides in standard video (32 minutes): https://youtu.be/GJI1kEPAfk8
NICE Guideline Malignant Spinal Cord Compression: https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg75
Patient-view radiotherapy experience at Velindre (3 minutes, in VR or normal video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WwNvXjVHQ8
Hypercalcaemia of malignancy BMJ summary
Case report: Hypercalcaemia to hypocalcaemia - a case of tetany on the wards
Effective Symptom Management Prescribing by Dr Dylan Harris https://www.magonlinelibrary.com/doi/full/10.12968/hmed.2019.80.12.C184 (free full article via University or NHS computer)
CT-Simulation to target Radiotherapy with Prof. Richard Adams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKjnwpCcGBE
Concepts around Advance Care Planning and DNACPR (40 minutes): https://youtu.be/lEaDMMCrqvE
TEDxTalk "Mark Taubert: Why language matters when we are dying" and accompanying TED-Lesson
A Podcast with Oncologist Dr Sam Guglani and Palliative Care Consultant Mark Taubert in conversation: Medicine Unboxed – Voices https://soundcloud.com/medicineunboxed/mark-taubert-voices-season-1
Dr Jamie Roberts’ palliative care experience: https://docrobertsblog.wordpress.com/2020/04/17/learning-something-new/
A Palliative Care Ward Round at Velindre recorded in Binaural Sound (please listen to this with headphones). Includes three patients seen on ward round and discussions held. Aimed at students who have not been able to attend ward rounds: https://blogs.bmj.com/spcare/2021/04/20/the-sound-of-covid-19-binaural-recordings-of-a-palliative-care-ward-round-in-a-cancer-hospital/
A conversation about dying at Green Man Festival https://blogs.bmj.com/spcare/2021/08/24/a-conversation-about-dying-at-green-man-festival-2021/
Why choose Palliative Care? WAMMS Career series: https://twitter.com/CU_WAMMS/status/1488080467995897861

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.