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Mari Lloyd-Williams

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Mari Lloyd-Williams FLSW FRCP is a Welsh medical consultant who specialises in palliative care. She taught at the University of Liverpool for more than two decades before moving to Liverpool John Moores University in 2022.

Biography

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Mari Lloyd-Williams was born to Margaret Winter Davies and county councillor Lloyd Williams.[1] She was educated at Leicester Medical School.[2] In 2000, she became a Consultant and Honorary Senior Lecturer for the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust and LOROS Hospice after completing her palliative medicine training with them.[2] In 2002, she moved to the University of Liverpool, where she became a Senior Lecturer and was later granted a personal chair at the School of Population, Community and Behavioural Sciences in 2003.[2] In 2022, she moved to Liverpool John Moores University and became Professor of Palliative and Supportive Care.[3] She also holds an honorary consultant position in palliative medicine with the Marie Curie Hospice, Liverpool and the Liverpool clinical commissioning group.[3]

As an academic, Lloyd-Williams specialises in palliative care.[3][4] Among her work in palliative care includes the leadership of a project involving more than a hundred elderly people in a rural village.[5] With the support of The Prince's Countryside Fund, she was granted a Churchill Fellowship in 2019 for the purposes of traveling to the Faroe Islands and Ireland to "[develop] volunteer-led palliative care facilities in rural communities".[4] She told the Denbighshire Free Press that she would use the Fellowship funds for a visit to Giljagarður, an elderly community in the Faroese town of Leirvík.[5]

She was elected Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales in 2011.[6] She is also a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and a Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners.[6]

References

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  1. ^ Lloyd-Williams, Mari (22 March 2022). "Lloyd Williams obituary". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 26 December 2023.
  2. ^ a b c "Compassion - Philip Larkin". Oxford University Press. Retrieved 26 December 2023.
  3. ^ a b c "Professor Mari Lloyd-Williams". St Christopher's Hospice. Retrieved 26 December 2023.
  4. ^ a b "Mari Lloyd-Williams". www.churchillfellowship.org. Retrieved 26 December 2023.
  5. ^ a b Evans, Arron (13 March 2019). "Denbigh Palliative Care Professor awarded Churchill Scholarship". Denbighshire Free Press. Retrieved 26 December 2023.
  6. ^ a b "Mari Lloyd-Williams". The Learned Society of Wales. Retrieved 26 December 2023.